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Text-to-speech conversion system for interlocking with multimedia and a method for organizing input data of the same

  • US 6,088,673 A
  • Filed: 02/09/1998
  • Issued: 07/11/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1997
  • Status: Expired
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1. A text-to-speech conversion system for interlocking with multimedia comprising;

  • a multimedia information input unit for organizing text, prosody information, information on synchronization with a moving picture, lip-shape information, picture information, and individual property information including a gender, age, accent, pronunciation and speech rate of synthesized speech;

    a data distributor for distributing the information from said multimedia information input unit into information for each media;

    a language processor for converting the text distributed by said data distributor into a phoneme stream, presuming prosody information and symbolizing the presumed prosody information;

    a prosody processor for calculating a prosody control parameter value from the symbolized prosody information from the language processor;

    a synchronization adjuster for adjusting a duration of each phoneme using the synchronization information distributed by said data distributor;

    a synthesis unit database for receiving the individual property information from said data distributor, selecting synthesis units adaptable to gender and age and outputting data required for synthesis;

    a signal processor for producing a synthesized speech using the prosody control parameter and the data output from said synthesis unit database; and

    a picture output apparatus for outputting the picture information distributed by said data distributor onto a screen.

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