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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
Disclosed herein are various innovations associated with a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The inventions 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 enabling human workers to find errors when developing a text-to-speech (TTS) voice. The method comprises presenting a graphical user interface wherein after a first pass of automatic speech recognition (ASR) of a speech corpus is complete, the interface presents to a worker a graphical representation of an alignment of the ASR results, associated words and phonemes and the audio, receiving a graphical input from the worker associated with a selection of a word or phoneme and presenting the audio associated with the selected word or phoneme.