Text-to-speech conversion with associated mood tag
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1. A method, comprising:
- associating a mood tag with text, wherein said mood tag specifies a mood to be applied when said text is subsequently converted to an audio signal.
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Abstract
A method (and associated apparatus) comprises associating a mood tag with text. The mood tag specifies a mood to be applied when the text is subsequently converted to an audio signal. In accordance with another embodiment, a method (and associated apparatus) comprises receiving text having an associated mood tag and converting the text to speech in accordance with the associated mood tag.
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1. A method, comprising:
associating a mood tag with text, wherein said mood tag specifies a mood to be applied when said text is subsequently converted to an audio signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 24)
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7. A method, comprising:
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receiving text having an associated mood tag; and
converting said text to speech in accordance with said associated mood tag. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system, comprising:
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a document server;
a mood translator coupled to the document server; and
a text-to-speech (TTS) converter coupled to the mood translator, wherein said TTS converter converts text to a speech signal;
wherein a mood tag is embedded in the voice user interface document and said mood translator passes stored prosodic parameters to the TTS converter which produces speech signal as specified by the mood tag. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A system, comprising:
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means for converting text to a speech signal in accordance with a mood tag embedded in the text, said mood tag specifying a mood;
means for producing sound based on the speech signal;
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25. A mood translation module, comprising
a CPU; software running on the CPU that causes the CPU to modify a prosodic parameter to generate a speech signal in accordance with a mood specified for a text segment. - View Dependent Claims (26)
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