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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2006
Kim E. A. Silverman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Matthias Neeracher, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kim E. A. Silverman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Matthias Neeracher, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are described for producing text-to-speech synthesis with non-speech sounds. In general, some of the pauses or silences that would otherwise be generated in synthesized speech are instead synthesized as non-speech sounds such as breaths. Non-speech sounds can be identified from pre-recorded speech that can include meta-data such as the grammatical and phrasal structure of words and sounds that precede and succeed non-speech sounds. A non-speech sound can be selected for use in synthesized speech based on the words, punctuation, grammatical and phrasal structure of text from which the speech is being synthesized, or other characteristics.