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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2007
Johan Wouters, Zürich, CH;
Christof Traber, Zürich, CH;
Marcel Riedi, Zollikon, CH;
Martin Reber, Zürich, CH;
Jürgen Keller, Güttingen, CH;
Johan Wouters, Zürich, CH;
Christof Traber, Zürich, CH;
Marcel Riedi, Zollikon, CH;
Martin Reber, Zürich, CH;
Jürgen Keller, Güttingen, CH;
Svox AG, Zurich, CH;
Abstract
An input linguistic description is converted into a speech waveform by deriving at least one target unit sequence corresponding to the linguistic description, selecting from a waveform unit database for the target unit sequences a plurality of alternative unit sequences approximating the target unit sequences, concatenating the alternative unit sequences to alternative speech waveforms and presenting the alternative speech waveforms to an operating person and enabling the choice of one of the presented alternative speech waveforms. There are no iterative cycles of manual modification and automatic selection, which enables a fast way of working. The operator does not need knowledge of units, targets, and costs, but chooses from a set of given alternatives. The fine-tuning of TTS prompts therefore becomes accessible to non-experts.