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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2013
Applicant:
Morphism Llc, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
James H. Stephens, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Morphism LLC, Austin, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/04 (2013.01); G10L 13/06 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); G10L 21/06 (2013.01); G10L 13/10 (2013.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 13/10 (2013.01); G10L 15/1807 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for training and applying prosody models for speech synthesis are provided. A speech recognition engine processes audible speech to produce text annotated with prosody information. A prosody model is trained with this annotated text. After initial training, the model is applied during speech synthesis to generate speech with non-standard prosody from input text. Multiple prosody models can be used to represent different prosody styles.