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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2007
Edmund Gale Acker, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Frederick Murray Burg, West Long Branch, NJ (US);
Edmund Gale Acker, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Frederick Murray Burg, West Long Branch, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A personalized text-to-speech (pTTS) system provides a method for converting text data to speech data utilizing a pTTS template representing the voice characteristics of an individual. A memory stores executable program code that converts text data to speech data. Text data represents a textual message directed to a system user and speech data represents a spoken form of text data having the characteristics of an individual's voice. A processor executes the program code, and a storage device stores a pTTS template and may store speech data. The pTTS system can be used to provide various services that provide immediate spoken presentation of the speech data converted from text data and/or combine stored speech data with generated speech data for spoken presentation.