Methods, Systems, and Products for Synthesizing Speech

• US 20090125309A1
• Filed: 01/22/2009
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Tischer, Steve
• Application Number:
  US12/357,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20090125309A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/260
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/033 Voice editing, e.g. manipulating the voice of the synthesiser

Abstract

Methods, Systems, and Products are disclosed for synthesizing speech. Text is received for translation to speech. The text is correlated to phrases, and each phrase is converted into a corresponding string of phonemes. A phoneme identifier is retrieved that uniquely represents each phoneme in the string of phonemes. Each phoneme identifier is concatenated to produce a sequence of phoneme identifiers with each phoneme identifier separated by a comma. Each sequence of phoneme identifiers is concatenated and separated by a semi-colon.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving text for translation to speech;

correlating the text to phrases;

converting each phrase into a corresponding string of phonemes;

retrieving a phoneme identifier that uniquely represents each phoneme in the string of phonemes;

concatenating each phoneme identifier to produce a sequence of phoneme identifiers with each phoneme identifier separated by a comma; and

concatenating each sequence of phoneme identifiers and separating each sequence of phone identifiers by a semi-colon.