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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2005
Gary Marple, Boxborough, MA (US);
Sue Ann Park, Newtown Square, PA (US);
H. Donald Wilson, White Plains, NY (US);
Mary Louise B. Wilson, Legal Representative, Bowie, MD (US);
Nancy Krebs, Severn, MD (US);
Diane Gaary, Ardmore, PA (US);
Barry Kur, State College, PA (US);
Gary Marple, Boxborough, MA (US);
Sue Ann Park, Newtown Square, PA (US);
H. Donald Wilson, White Plains, NY (US);
Mary Louise B. Wilson, legal representative, Bowie, MD (US);
Nancy Krebs, Severn, MD (US);
Diane Gaary, Ardmore, PA (US);
Barry Kur, State College, PA (US);
Lessac Technologies, Inc., Boxborough, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of, and system for, acoustically coding text for use in the synthesis of speech from the text. The method includes marking the text to be spoken with one or more graphic symbols to indicate to a speaker a desired prosody to impart to the spoken text. The markups can include grapheme-phoneme pairs each wherein a visible prosodic-indicating grapheme is employed with written text and a corresponding digital phoneme is functional in the digital domain. The invention is useful in the generation of appealing, humanized machine speech for a wide range of applications, including voice mail systems, electronically enabled appliances, automobiles, computers, robotic assistants, games and the like, in spoken books and magazines, drama and other entertainment.