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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2014
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Itzhack Goldberg, Hadera, IL;
Ron Hoory, Haifa, IL;
Boaz Mizrachi, Haifa, IL;
Zvi Kons, Yokne'am Illit, IL;
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and system are provided for text-to-speech synthesis with personalized voice. The method includes receiving an incidental audio input () of speech in the form of an audio communication from an input speaker () and generating a voice dataset () for the input speaker (). The method includes receiving a text input () at the same device as the audio input () and synthesizing () the text from the text input () to synthesized speech including using the voice dataset () to personalize the synthesized speech to sound like the input speaker (). In addition, the method includes analyzing () the text for expression and adding the expression () to the synthesized speech. The audio communication may be part of a video communication () and the audio input () may have an associated visual input () of an image of the input speaker. The synthesis from text may include providing a synthesized image personalized to look like the image of the input speaker with expressions added from the visual input ().