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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2008
Applicant:
Ellen M. Eide, New York, NY (US);
Inventor:
Ellen M. Eide, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A text-to-speech system that includes an arrangement for accepting text input, an arrangement for providing synthetic speech output, and an arrangement for imparting emotion-based features to synthetic speech output. The arrangement for imparting emotion-based features includes an arrangement for accepting instruction for imparting at least one emotion-based paradigm to synthetic speech output, as well as an arrangement for applying at least one emotion-based paradigm to synthetic speech output.