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Synthesis-based pre-selection of suitable units for concatenative speech

  • US 7,565,291 B2
  • Filed: 05/15/2007
  • Issued: 07/21/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for synthesizing speech, the system comprising:

  • a processor;

    a module configured to control the processor to select at least one phoneme unit from a triphone unit selection database as at least one candidate phoneme to use in synthesizing speech;

    a module configured to control the processor to select a set of phonemes from the at least one candidate phoneme, the module selecting the set of phonemes by appyling a Viterbi search in a cost process; and

    a module configured to control the processor to synthesize speech using the selected set of phonemes.

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