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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 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 are various elements of a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The invention 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 for preparing a text-to-speech (TTS) voice for testing and verification. The method comprises processing a TTS voice to be ready for testing, synthesizing words utilizing the TTS voice, presenting to a person a smallest possible subset that contains at least N instances of a group of units in the TTS voice, receiving information from the person associated with corrections needed to the TTS voice and making corrections to the TTS voice according to the received information.