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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2005
Steven Lawrence Davis, Madelia, MN (US);
Shane Fetters, St. Peter, MN (US);
David Eugene Schulz, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Beverly Gustafson, St. Peter, MN (US);
Louise Loney, Elysian, MN (US);
Steven Lawrence Davis, Madelia, MN (US);
Shane Fetters, St. Peter, MN (US);
David Eugene Schulz, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Beverly Gustafson, St. Peter, MN (US);
Louise Loney, Elysian, MN (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are various aspects of a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The embodiments in each case may be in the form of the system, a computer-readable medium or a method for generating the TTS voice. An embodiment of the invention relates to a method of tracking progress in developing a text-to-speech (TTS) voice. The method comprises insuring that a corpus of recorded speech contains reading errors and matches an associated written text, creating a tuple for each utterance in the corpus and tracking progress for each utterance utilizing the tuple. Various parameters may be tracked using the tuple but the tuple provides a means for enabling multiple workers to efficiently process a database of utterance in preparation of a TTS voice.