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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 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
The present invention provides various elements 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. One embodiment of the invention relates to a method of correcting a database associated with the development of a text-to-speech (TTS) voice. The method comprises generating a pronunciation dictionary for use with a TTS voice, generating a TTS voice to a stage wherein it is prepared to be tested before being deployed, identifying mislabeled phonetic units associated with the TTS voice, for each identified mislabeled phonetic unit, linking to an entry within the pronunciation dictionary to correct the entry and deleting utterances and all associated data for unacceptable utterances.