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Defining atom units between phone and syllable for TTS systems

  • US 20060155544A1
  • Filed: 01/11/2005
  • Published: 07/13/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of developing a unit inventory for use by a text to speech system, comprising:

  • identifying a list of phones for a target language;

    receiving a lexicon containing phonetic transcriptions of a plurality of words having a plurality of syllables;

    identifying a set of common multi-phone atom units for the lexicon; and

    adding the set of common multi-phone atom units to the unit inventory for the target language.

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