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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2015
Applicant:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Mark Charles Beutnagel, Mendham, NJ (US);
Mehryar Mohri, New York, NY (US);
Michael Dennis Riley, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (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 13/07 (2013.01); G10L 13/027 (2013.01); G10L 13/043 (2013.01); G10L 13/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A speech synthesis process can record concatenation costs of unit sequential pairs to a concatenation cost database for speech synthesis by synthesizing speech from a text, identifying an acoustic unit sequential pair in the speech, searching for a concatenation cost for the acoustic unit sequential pair in a database using a hash table for the database, and when the concatenation cost is not found in the database, assigning a default value as the concatenation cost for the acoustic unit sequential pair.