公开(公告)号：AT443908T

公开(公告)日：2009-10-15

申请号：AT04781935

申请日：2004-08-23

Applicant: MOTOROLA INC

Inventor： CORRIGAN GERALD ,  ALBRECHT STEVEN

IPC: G10L13/02 ,  G06F17/21 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G10L20060101 ,  G10L13/00 ,  G10L13/04 ,  G10L13/08 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G10L21/00 ,  H04M3/493 ,  H04M7/00

Abstract: In a speech synthesis technique used in a network (110, 115), a set of text words is accepted by a speech engine software function (210) in a client device (105). From the set of text words, an invalid subset of text words is determined for which the text words are not in a word synthesis dictionary of the client device. The invalid subset of text words is transmitted over the network to a server device (120), which generates a set of word pronunciations including at least a portion of the text words of the invalid subset of text words and pronunciations associated with each of the text words. The client device uses the pronunciations for speech synthesis and may store them in a local word synthesis dictionary (220) stored in a memory (150) of the client device.