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CROWD-SOURCING PRONUNCIATION CORRECTIONS IN TEXT-TO-SPEECH ENGINES

  • US 20130179170A1
  • Filed: 01/09/2012
  • Published: 07/11/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for providing validated text-to-speech correction hints to text-to-speech applications, the system comprising:

  • one or more application servers;

    a correction submission service executing on the one or more application servers and comprising computer-executable instructions that cause the system toreceive a plurality of pronunciation corrections comprising a specification of a word or phrase and a suggested pronunciation, each of the plurality of pronunciation corrections provided by a user of a text-to-speech application executing on a user computer system, andstore the plurality of pronunciation corrections in a data storage system; and

    a correction validation module executing on the one or more application servers and comprising computer-executable instructions that cause the system toanalyze the plurality of pronunciation corrections and generate a validated correction hint when a threshold number of pronunciation corrections are received for the word or phrase having substantially the same suggested pronunciation, andprovide the validated correction hint back to the text-to-speech applications, wherein the validated correction hint is utilized to correct a pronunciation of the word or phrase in the text-to-speech applications.

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