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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2011
Fathy Yassa, Soquel, CA (US);
Fathy Yassa, Soquel, CA (US);
SPEECH MORPHING, INC., Campbell, CA (US);
Abstract
A communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication system also including a speech analyzer configured to receive the speech signal. The speech analyzer configured to extract paralinguistic characteristics from the speech signal. In addition, the communication system includes a voice analyzer configured to receive the speech signal. The voice analyzer configured to generate one or more phonemes based on the speech signal. The communication system includes a speech output device coupled with the automatic speech recognizer, the speech analyzer and the voice analyzer. The speech output device configured to convert the text sequence into an output speech signal based on the extracted paralinguistic characteristics and said one or more phonemes.