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Text selection and recording by feedback and adaptation for development of personalized text-to-speech systems

  • US 6,792,407 B2
  • Filed: 03/30/2001
  • Issued: 09/14/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A voice adaptation system for use with a text-to-speech synthesizer, comprising:

  • a recorded snippet database having initial snippets;

    a comparison snippets set based on speech from a new speaker, wherein the comparison snippets are used to provide a comparison with current snippets;

    a comparison module for performing the comparison by comparing the acoustic proximity between each one of said initial snippets and each one of said comparison snippets; and

    new speaker text for adapting the voice quality of the text-to-speech synthesizer, the new speaker text based on the comparison.

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