Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Annotating phonemes and accents for text-to-speech system
- Patent Title (中): 注释文字到语音系统的音素和口音
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Application No.: US12534808Application Date: 2009-08-03
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Publication No.: US08751235B2Publication Date: 2014-06-10
- Inventor: Shinsuke Mori , Toru Nagano , Masafumi Nishimura
- Applicant: Shinsuke Mori , Toru Nagano , Masafumi Nishimura
- Applicant Address: US MA Burlington
- Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Burlington
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Priority: JP2005-203160 20050712; JP2008-520863 20060710; WOPCT/EP2006/064052 20060710
- Main IPC: G10L13/08
- IPC: G10L13/08 ; G10L13/10

Abstract:
A system that outputs phonemes and accents of texts. The system has a storage section storing a first corpus in which spellings, phonemes, and accents of a text input beforehand are recorded separately for individual segmentations of the words that are contained in the text. A text for which phonemes and accents are to be output is acquired and the first corpus is searched to retrieve at least one set of spellings that match the spellings in the text from among sets of contiguous spellings. Then, the combination of a phoneme and an accent that has a higher probability of occurrence in the first corpus than a predetermined reference probability is selected as the phonemes and accent of the text.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100030561A1 ANNOTATING PHONEMES AND ACCENTS FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2010-02-04
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