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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
May. 31, 2005
Alessio Cervone, Rome, IT;
Ivano Salvatore Collotta, Turin, IT;
Paolo Coppo, Turin, ID;
Donato Ettorre, Turin, IT;
Maurizio Fodrini, Turin, IT;
Maura Turolla, Turin, IT;
Alessio Cervone, Rome, IT;
Ivano Salvatore Collotta, Turin, IT;
Paolo Coppo, Turin, ID;
Donato Ettorre, Turin, IT;
Maurizio Fodrini, Turin, IT;
Maura Turolla, Turin, IT;
Telecom Italia S.p.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
Service architecture for providing to a user terminal of a communications network textual information and relative speech synthesis, the user terminal being provided with a speech synthesis engine and a basic database of speech waveforms includes: a content server for downloading textual information requested by means of a browser application on the user terminal; a context manager for extracting context information from the textual information requested by the user terminal; a context selector for selecting an incremental database of speech waveforms associated with extracted context information and for downloading the incremental database into the user terminal; a database manager on the user terminal for managing the composition of an enlarged database of speech waveforms for the speech synthesis engine including the basic and the incremental databases of speech waveforms.