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Speech synthesis and analysis of dialects

  • US 5,636,325 A
  • Filed: 01/05/1994
  • Issued: 06/03/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of operating a speech synthesis system comprising the steps of:

  • generating a string of linguistic units containing pitch data by selecting linguistic units from a first memory segment of the system which correspond to characters in a text string and concatenating the selected linguistic units together in a second memory segment of the system;

    selecting locations within the pitch data of the string of linguistic units;

    retrieving a first set of dialect intervals for a first selected dialect, the first set of dialect intervals selected from a set of melodic intervals as being indicative of the first selected dialect and stored in a dialect table in a third memory segment of the system; and

    applying the first set of dialect intervals to the pitch data at the selected locations so that synthesized speech of the first selected dialect produced.

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