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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2005
Christel Amato, Bazainville, FR;
Hubert Crepy, Boulogne, FR;
Stephane Revelin, Saint Mande, FR;
Claire Waast-richard, Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR;
Christel Amato, Bazainville, FR;
Hubert Crepy, Boulogne, FR;
Stephane Revelin, Saint Mande, FR;
Claire Waast-Richard, Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR;
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for generating synthetic speech, which operates in a computer implemented Text-To-Speech system. The system comprises at least a speaker database that has been previously created from user recordings, a Front-End system to receive an input text and a Text-To-Speech engine. The Front-End system generates multiple phonetic transcriptions for each word of the input text, and the TTS engine uses a cost function to select which phonetic transcription is the more appropriate for searching the speech segments within the speaker database to be concatenated and synthesized.