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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2012
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
Mark Charles Beutnagel, Mendham, NJ (US);
Mehryar Mohri, New York, NY (US);
Michael Dennis Riley, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/06 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A speech synthesis system can select recorded speech fragments, or acoustic units, from a very large database of acoustic units to produce artificial speech. When a pair of acoustic units in the database does not have an associated concatenation cost, the system assigns a default concatenation cost. The system then synthesizes speech, identifies the acoustic unit sequential pairs generated and their respective concatenation costs, and stores those concatenation costs likely to occur.