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Text-to-speech system with automatically trained phrasing rules

  • US 6,173,262 B1
  • Filed: 11/02/1995
  • Issued: 01/09/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for generating a statistical representation of intonational feature information for a text-to-speech system, the method comprising the steps of:

  • (a) annotating a set of predetermined text with intonational feature annotations to generate annotated text, the set of predetermined text being unrelated to speech, said annotating being performed by a human annotator;

    (b) with a computer means, generating a set of structural information regarding the predetermined text;

    (c) with the computer means, generating said statistical representations of intonational feature information based on the set of structural information and the intonational feature annotations; and

    (d) storing said statistical representation for use in training a text-to-speech system.

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