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Method and apparatus for improved duration modeling of phonemes

  • US 6,366,884 B1
  • Filed: 11/08/1999
  • Issued: 04/02/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for producing synthetic speech comprising:

  • receiving text into a processor;

    processing the text using a phoneme duration model, the phoneme duration model produced by developing a functional transformation form with an inflection point for use with a generalized additive model, wherein the generalized additive model is specifically designed to calculate phoneme durations for speech synthesis; and

    generating speech signals representative of the received text.

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