REAL TIME SPEECH OUTPUT SPEED ADJUSTMENT

• US 20180114521A1
• Filed: 10/20/2016
• Published: 04/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hwang, Inseok, Liu, Su, Rozner, Eric J., Sze, Chin Ngai
• Granted Patent: US 10,157,607 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/61 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/033 Voice editing, e.g. manipulating the voice of the synthesiser
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/005 Language recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/84 for discriminating voice from noise

Abstract

A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a request for audio data, determining one or more factors associated with the request, adjusting a speed of the audio data to create adjusted audio data, based on the one or more factors, and returning the adjusted audio data in response to the request.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

identifying a spoken request for audio data;

determining one or more speech factors associated with the spoken request;

selecting, utilizing a processor, adjusted audio data from one of a plurality of pre-recorded instances based on the one or more speech factors associated with the spoken request, where each of the plurality of pre-recorded instances has a different time interval between a plurality of words when audibly presented; and

returning the adjusted audio data in response to the request.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the spoken request is received by a user.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the audio data includes a podcast.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the audio data includes an audible response to a question as part of a question and answer (Q&

A) service.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining the one or more factors includes analyzing the spoken request to determine the one or more speech factors and one or more environmental factors associated with the spoken request.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising identifying one or more stored factors associated with the spoken request, where the one or more stored factors include one or more service profile factors and one or more characteristic profile factors that are stored in a database.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the one or more speech factors are selected from a group consisting of a background noise of the request, a native language of a speaker of the request, and a spoken tempo of the speaker of the request.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising identifying one or more stored factors associated with the spoken request, where the one or more stored factors are selected from a group consisting of an audio speed selecting rule, a factor weighting rule, a default audio speed setting, and an audio speed setting associated with a predetermined native language.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the adjusted audio data is selected by a client computing device, a server computing device, or a cloud computing environment.

10. (canceled)

11. A computer program product for real time speech output speed adjustment, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

identifying a spoken request for audio data, utilizing the processor;

determining one or more speech factors associated with the spoken request, utilizing the processor;

selecting, utilizing the processor, adjusted audio data from one of a plurality of pre-recorded instances based on the one or more speech factors associated with the spoken request, where each of the plurality of pre-recorded instances has a different time interval between a plurality of words when audibly presented; and

returning the adjusted audio data in response to the request, utilizing the processor.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the spoken request is received by a user.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the audio data includes a podcast.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the audio data includes an audible response to a question as part of a question and answer (Q&

A) service.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein determining the one or more factors includes analyzing the spoken request to determine the one or more speech factors and one or more environmental factors associated with the spoken request, utilizing the processor.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising identifying one or more stored factors associated with the spoken request, utilizing the processor, where the one or more stored factors include one or more service profile factors and one or more characteristic profile factors that are stored in a database.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the one or more factors are selected from a group consisting of a background noise of the request, a native language of a speaker of the request, and a spoken tempo of the speaker of the request.

18. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising identifying one or more stored factors associated with the spoken request, utilizing the processor, where the one or more stored factors are selected from a group consisting of an audio speed selecting rule, a factor weighting rule, a default audio speed setting, and an audio speed setting associated with a predetermined native language.

19. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the adjusted audio data is selected by a client computing device, a server computing device, or a cloud computing environment.

20. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor, the logic being configured to;

identify a spoken request for audio data;

determine one or more speech factors associated with the spoken request;

select, utilizing the processor, adjusted audio data from one of a plurality of pre-recorded instances based on the one or more speech factors associated with the spoken request, where each of the plurality of pre-recorded instances has a different time interval between a plurality of words when audibly presented; and

return the adjusted audio data in response to the request.