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Arrangement for increasing the comprehension of speech when translating speech from a first language to a second language

  • US 5,546,500 A
  • Filed: 05/05/1994
  • Issued: 08/13/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/10/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Arrangement for increasing comprehension of speech when translating speech from a first language to a second language, comprisingelements for receiving speech in a first language, a translation unit for translating speech in the first language to a second language, and speech synthesis elements for generating speech in the second language, characterized in that the arrangement also comprisesan analysis unit which analyzes variations in fundamental tone and duration of the speech in the first language,a prosody-interpreting unit which determines first prosody-dependent information in dependence on said analysis unit and on language-characteristic information which relates to the first language,a prosody-generating unit which generates second prosody-dependent information with a starting point from the first prosody-dependent information and from language-characteristic information which relates to the second language, which second prosody-dependent information is used by the speech synthesis element for producing stresses in the second language corresponding to stresses in the speech in the first language.

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