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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Heng Lu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xu Shao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wei Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Wenhui Lei, Pudong Shanghai, CN;
Andrew Breen, Norfolk, GB;
Assignee:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for concatenative speech synthesis is provided. Embodiments may include accessing, using one or more computing devices, a plurality of speech synthesis units from a speech database and determining a similarity between the plurality of speech synthesis units. Embodiments may further include retrieving two or more speech synthesis units having the similarity and pruning at least one of the two or more speech synthesis units based upon, at least in part, the similarity.