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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2014
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); G10L 13/07 (2013.01); G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 13/027 (2013.01); G10L 13/04 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/027 (2013.01); G10L 13/043 (2013.01); G10L 13/07 (2013.01); G10L 13/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A speech synthesis system can record concatenation costs of most common acoustic unit sequential pairs to a concatenation cost database for speech synthesis by synthesizing speech from a text, identifying a most common acoustic unit sequential pair in the speech, assigning a concatenation cost to the most common acoustic sequential pair, and recording the concatenation cost of the most common acoustic sequential pair to a concatenation cost database.