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Automated Generation of Audiobook with Multiple Voices and Sounds from Text

  • US 20090326948A1
  • Filed: 06/26/2008
  • Published: 12/31/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A computer-implementable method for transcoding text to speech and audio, comprising:

  • parsing input text with a natural language processor to automatically;

    identify spoken text passages and sound description passages;

    determine a speaker identity for each spoken text passage and a sound element for each sound description passage;

    determine speaker attributes of each speaker identity and sound attributes of each sound element, each speaker identity and sound element automatically referenced to a voice and sound effects schema;

    associate a voice effect with each speaker identity and a sound effect with each sound element, the voice effect and sound effects automatically selected from repository of voice and sound effects; and

    annotating each spoken text passage with the voice effect associated with its speaker identity and each sound description passage with the sound effect associated with its sound element.

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