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Name pronounciation by synthesizer

  • US 5,040,218 A
  • Filed: 07/06/1990
  • Issued: 08/13/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/23/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for determining if any of a plurality of language groups may be identified, or removed from consideration, as a language group of origin for an input word using a programmable computer, the method comprising the steps of:

  • (a) applying a set of filter rules, which are stored in memory means of the programmable computer, to predetermined substrings of graphemes of the input word to determine if there is a match between one of the substrings and one of the filter rules of a particular language group which positively identifies the input word as being part of a that language group, or if there is an absence of a match between any of the predetermined substrings of graphemes of the input word and the filter rules for a particular language group of the plurality of language groups so as to eliminate that particular language group from consideration as a language group of origin of the input word, with the filter rules for each language group of the plurality of language groups including N graphemes where 1<

    N≦

    R and R=the number of graphemes in the input word; and

    (b) generating a representative indicator of the language group of origin of the input word if there is a match or generating a list of possible language groups of origin for the input word according to the filter rules when there is the absence of a match.

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