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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2006
Matthias Neeracher, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Devang K. Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin B. Aitken, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jerome R. Bellegarda, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Kim E.a. Silverman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Matthias Neeracher, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Devang K. Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin B. Aitken, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jerome R. Bellegarda, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Kim E.A. Silverman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products are provided for synthesizing speech. One method includes matching a first level of units of a received input string to audio segments from a plurality of audio segments including using properties of or between first level units to locate matching audio segments from a plurality of selections, parsing unmatched first level units into second level units, matching the second level units to audio segments using properties of or between the units to locate matching audio segments from a plurality of selections and synthesizing the input string, including combining the audio segments associated with the first and second units.