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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2012
Sheng Zhao, Beijing, CN;
Peng Wang, Beijing, CN;
Difei Gao, Beijing, CN;
Yijian Wu, Beijing, CN;
Binggong Ding, Beijing, CN;
Shenghua YE, Beijing, CN;
Max Leung, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sheng Zhao, Beijing, CN;
Peng Wang, Beijing, CN;
Difei Gao, Beijing, CN;
Yijian Wu, Beijing, CN;
Binggong Ding, Beijing, CN;
Shenghua Ye, Beijing, CN;
Max Leung, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A text-to-speech (TTS) engine combines recorded speech with synthesized speech from a TTS synthesizer based on text input. The TTS engine receives the text input and identifies the domain for the speech (e.g. navigation, dialing, . . . ). The identified domain is used in selecting domain specific speech recordings (e.g. pre-recorded static phrases such as 'turn left', 'turn right' . . . ) from the input text. The speech recordings are obtained based on the static phrases for the domain that are identified from the input text. The TTS engine blends the static phrases with the TTS output to smooth the acoustic trajectory of the input text. The prosody of the static phrases is used to create similar prosody in the TTS output.