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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2015
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
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);
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
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.