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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2016
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Vincent Pollet, Astene, BE;
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for performing multi-style speech synthesis. The techniques include using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: obtaining input comprising text and an identification of a desired speaking style to use in rendering the text as speech; identifying a plurality of speech segments for use in synthesizing the text as speech, the identifying comprising identifying a first speech segment recorded and/or synthesized in a first speaking style that is different from the desired speaking style based at least in part on a measure of similarity between the desired speaking style and the first speaking style; synthesizing speech from the text in the desired speaking style at least in part by using the first speech segment; and outputting the synthesized speech.