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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2005
Applicant:
Ilya Skuratovsky, Stamford, CT (US);
Inventor:
Ilya Skuratovsky, Stamford, CT (US);
Assignee:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2006.01); G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of speech synthesis can include automatically identifying spoken passages and non-spoken passages within a text source and converting the text source to speech by applying different voice configurations to different portions of text within the text source according to whether each portion of text was identified as a spoken passage or a non-spoken passage. The method further can include identifying the speaker and/or the gender of the speaker and applying different voice configurations according to the speaker identity and/or speaker gender.