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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2006
Applicants:
Andrew Stephen Aaron, Ardsley, NY (US);
David Angelo Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
John Ferdinand Pitrelli, Danbury, CT (US);
Inventors:
Andrew Stephen Aaron, Ardsley, NY (US);
David Angelo Ferrucci, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
John Ferdinand Pitrelli, Danbury, CT (US);
Assignee:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method (and system) which autonomously generates a cohesive script from a text database for creating a speech corpus for concatenative text-to-speech, and more particularly, which generates cohesive scripts having fluency and natural prosody that can be used to generate compact text-to-speech recordings that cover a plurality of phonetic events.