SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONSISTENCY OF PRONUNCIATIONS

• US 20100049518A1
• Filed: 03/29/2007
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Original Assignee: Orange S.A.
• Inventors: Ferrieux, Laurence
• Application Number:
  US12/295,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20100049518A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/254
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0018 Speech coding using phonetic or linguistical decoding of the source; Reconstruction using text-to-speech synthesis

Abstract

A system for providing consistency between the pronunciation of a word by a user and a confirmation pronunciation issued by a voice server (1), said voice server comprising both a voice recognition system (20) suitable for recognizing the pronunciation of the word by the user and for associating a text label therewith, and a speech synthesis system (30) suitable for issuing said confirmation pronunciation on the basis of said text label. The text label is a phonetic text label (21) constructed by concatenating the phonemes of the pronunciation as recognized by the voice recognition system (20).

Claims

1. A system for providing consistency between the pronunciation of a word by a user and a confirmation pronunciation issued by a voice server (1), said voice server comprising both a voice recognition system (20) suitable for recognizing the pronunciation of the word by the user and for associating a text label therewith, and a speech synthesis system (30) suitable for issuing said confirmation pronunciation on the basis of said text label, wherein said text label is a phonetic text label (21) constructed by concatenating the phonemes of the pronunciation as recognized by the voice recognition system (20).

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein a prosody indicator is associated with said phonetic text label (21).