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Speech-to-speech generation system and method

  • US 20040172257A1
  • Filed: 10/10/2003
  • Published: 09/02/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A speech-to-speech generation system, comprising:

  • speech recognition means, for recognizing the speech of language A and creating the corresponding text of language A;

    machine translation means for translating the text from language A to language B;

    text-to-speech generation means, for generating the speech of language B according to the text of language B, said speech-to-speech translation system is characterized by further comprising;

    expressive parameter detection means, for extracting expressive parameters from the speech of language A; and

    expressive parameter mapping means for mapping the expressive parameters extracted by the expressive parameter detection means from language A to language B, and driving the text-to-speech generation means by the mapping results to synthesize expressive speech.

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