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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING A PROSODY STATISTIC MODEL AND PROSODY PARSING, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TEXT TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS

  • US 20070129938A1
  • Filed: 10/06/2006
  • Published: 06/07/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for training a prosody statistic model with a raw corpus that includes a plurality of sentences with punctuation, comprising:

  • transforming said plurality of sentences in said raw corpus into a plurality of token sequences respectively;

    counting a frequency for each adjacent token pair occurring in said plurality of token sequences and frequencies of punctuation that represents a pause occurring at associated positions of said each token pair;

    calculating pause probabilities at said associated positions of said each token pair; and

    constructing said prosody statistic model based on said token pairs and said pause probabilities at associated positions thereof.

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