Communicating Across Voice and Text Channels with Emotion Preservation

• US 20110184721A1
• Filed: 04/04/2011
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Srinivasan, Deepa, Salahshoor, Mohamad Reza, Subramanian, Balan
• Granted Patent: US 8,386,265 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/4
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/04 Details of speech synthesis systems, e.g. synthesiser structure or memory management
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0018 Speech coding using phonetic or linguistical decoding of the source; Reconstruction using text-to-speech synthesis

Abstract

A computer program product for communicating across channels with emotion preservation includes a computer usable storage medium having computer useable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code including: computer usable program code to receive a first language communication comprising text marked up with emotion metadata; computer usable program code to translate the emotion metadata into second language emotion metadata; computer usable program code to translate the text to second language text; computer usable program code to analyze the second language emotion metadata for second language emotion information; and computer usable program code to combine the second language emotion information in first language communication with the second language text.

Claims

1. A computer program product for communicating across channels with emotion preservation, said computer program product comprising:

a computer usable storage medium having computer useable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising;

computer usable program code to receive a first language communication comprising text marked up with emotion metadata;

computer usable program code to translate the emotion metadata into second language emotion metadata;

computer usable program code to translate the text to second language text;

computer usable program code to analyze the second language emotion metadata for second language emotion information; and

computer usable program code to combine the second language emotion information in first language communication with the second language text.

2. The computer program product recited in claim 1, wherein the second language emotion information is one of text, phrase, punctuation, lexicon or syntax.

3. The computer program product recited in claim 2, further comprising:

computer program product to voice synthesize the second language text and the second language emotion text; and

computer program product to adjust the synthesized voice with the second language emotion metadata.

4. The computer program produce recited in claim 2, wherein the computer program product to analyze the second language emotion metadata for second language emotion information further comprises:

computer program product to receive at least one second language emotion metadaturn;

computer program product to access a plurality of voice emotion-to-text pattern definition, said plurality of voice emotion-to-text pattern definitions being based on the second language; and

computer program product to compare the at least one second language emotion metadatum to the plurality of voice emotion-to-text pattern definitions.

5. The computer program product recited in claim 4, further comprising:

computer program product to select the plurality of voice emotion-to-text pattern definitions are based on the second language.

6. The computer program product recited in claim 4, wherein the-computer program product to adjust the synthesized voice with the second language emotion metadata further comprises:

computer program product to receive at least one second language emotion metadatum,

computer program product to access a plurality of emotion-to-voice pattern definitions, wherein the voice patterns comprises one of pitch, tone, cadence and amplitude;

computer program product to match the at least one second language emotion metadatum to one of the plurality of emotion-to-voice pattern definitions, said plurality of emotion-to-voice pattern definitions being based on the second language; and

computer program product to alter a synthesized voice pattern of the synthesized voice with a voice pattern corresponding to the matching emotion-to-voice pattern definition.