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COMBINED STATISTICAL AND RULE-BASED PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS

  • US 20120053946A1
  • Filed: 08/27/2010
  • Published: 03/01/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, the method comprising:

  • in response to a word of a text sequence, generating a first part-of-speech (POS) tag using a statistical POS tagger based on a corpus of trained text sequences, each representing a likely POS of a word for a given text sequence;

    generating a second POS tag using a rule-based POS tagger based on a set of one or more rules associated with a type of an application associated with the text sequence; and

    assigning a final POS tag to the word of the text sequence for TTS synthesis based on the first POS tag and the second POS tag.

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