Text-to-speech method and system, computer program product therefor
First Claim
1. A method of facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a text in a first language having sections in at least one second language, the method comprising:
- converting the second language sections of text into phonemes of the second language; and
processing similarity tests configured to perform category-to-category comparisons of respective vector representatives of phonetic categories of a set of phonemes of the second language and respective vector representatives of phonetic categories of a set of candidate mapping phonemes of the first language, the similarity tests being independent of the first and second languages.
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Abstract
A text-to-speech system adapted to operate on text in a first language including sections in a second language, includes a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor for converting the sections in the second language into phonemes of the second language; a mapping module configured for mapping at least part of the phonemes of the second language onto sets of phonemes of the first language; and a speech-synthesis module adapted to be fed with a resulting stream of phonemes including the sets of phonemes of the first language resulting from mapping and the stream of phonemes of the first language representative of the text, and to generate a speech signal from the resulting stream of phonemes.
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1. A method of facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a text in a first language having sections in at least one second language, the method comprising:
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converting the second language sections of text into phonemes of the second language; and processing similarity tests configured to perform category-to-category comparisons of respective vector representatives of phonetic categories of a set of phonemes of the second language and respective vector representatives of phonetic categories of a set of candidate mapping phonemes of the first language, the similarity tests being independent of the first and second languages. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system for text-to-speech conversion of a text in a first language having sections in at least one second language, comprising:
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a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor configured to convert sections in the second language into phonemes of the second language; and a mapping module configured to process similarity tests configured to perform a category-to-category comparison between a vector representative of phonetic categories of each of the phonemes of the second language and a vector representative of phonetic categories of each of the set of candidate mapping phonemes, the similarity tests being independent of the first language and the second language. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19)
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15. A computer program product comprising computer readable instructions embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium and configured, when executed on one or more computer processors, to facilitate text-to-speech conversion of a text in a first language having sections in at least one second language by:
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converting the second language sections into phonemes; and processing similarity tests configured to perform category-to-category comparisons of respective vector representatives of phonetic categories of a set of phonemes of the second language and respective vector representatives of phonetic categories of a set of candidate mapping phonemes of the first language, the similarity tests being independent of the first and second languages. - View Dependent Claims (16, 20)
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