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Patent No.:

US 9852728 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 08, 2015

Process for improving pronunciation of proper nouns foreign to a target language text-to-speech system

Applicant:

Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);

Inventors:

Anurag Ratan Singh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Yifang Xu, San Jose, CA (US);

Ivan A. Sanchez Quijas, San Jose, CA (US);

Mahesh Godavarti, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);

Attorneys:

Brian J. Colandreo

Michael T. Abramson

Holland & Knight LLP

Primary Examiner:

Vu B Hang

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G10L 13/04 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G06F 17/278 (2013.01); G06F 17/2881 (2013.01); G06F 17/289 (2013.01); G06F 17/2872 (2013.01); G10L 13/043 (2013.01); G10L 13/086 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method configured for use in a text-to-speech (TTS) system is provided. Embodiments may include identifying, using one or more processors, a word or phrase as a named entity and identifying a language of origin associated with the named entity. Embodiments may further include transliterating the named entity to a script associated with the language of origin. If the TTS system is operating in the language of origin, embodiments may include passing the transliterated script to the TTS system. If the TTS system is not operating in the language of origin, embodiments may include generating a phoneme sequence in the language of origin using a grapheme to phoneme (G2P) converter.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Singh, Anurag. (2017). Process for improving pronunciation of proper nouns foreign to a target language text-to-speech system (U.S. Patent No. 9852728). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9852728

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