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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2015
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Benjamin J. Stern, Morris Township, NJ (US);
Mark Charles Beutnagel, Mendham, NJ (US);
Alistair D. Conkie, Morristown, NJ (US);
Horst J. Schroeter, New Providence, NJ (US);
Amanda Joy Stent, Chatham, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for intelligent caching of concatenative speech units for use in speech synthesis. A system configured to practice the method can identify, in a local cache of text-to-speech units for a text-to-speech voice an absent text-to-speech unit which is not in the local cache. The system can request from a server the absent text-to-speech unit. The system can then synthesize speech using the text-to-speech units and a received text-to-speech unit from the server.