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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Michal Tadeusz Kaszczuk, Gdansk, PL;
Jeffrey Penrod Adams, Tyngsborough, MA (US);
Adam Franciszek Nadolski, Gdansk, PL;
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A text-to-speech (TTS) processing system may be configured for iterative processing. Speech units for unit selection may be tagged according to extra segmental features, such as emotional features, dramatic features, etc. Preliminary TTS results based on input text may be provided to a user through a user interface. The user may offer corrections to the preliminary results. Those corrections may correspond to the extra segmental features. The user corrections may then be input into the TTS system along with the input text to provide refined TTS results. This process may be repeated iteratively to obtain desired TTS results.