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Methods and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Unit Selection From a Large Speech Corpus

  • US 20100286986A1
  • Filed: 07/20/2010
  • Published: 11/11/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • determining whether an acoustic unit sequential pair to be used for synthesizing speech has a concatenation cost in a concatenation cost database; and

    if the concatenation cost database does not contain the concatenation cost for the acoustic unit sequential pair, then assigning a default value to the concatenation cost.

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