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Text to speech

  • US 6,865,533 B2
  • Filed: 12/31/2002
  • Issued: 03/08/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for converting text to speech using a computing device having memory, comprising:

  • (a) receiving text into said memory of said computing device;

    (b) applying a set of the lexical parsing rules to parse said text into a plurality of components;

    (c) associating pronunciation and meaning information with said components;

    (d) applying a set of phrase parsing rules to generate marked up text;

    (e) phonetically parsing said marked up text using phonetic parsing rules;

    (f) parsing said marked up text using Lessac expressive parsing rules;

    (g) storing a plurality of sounds in memory, each of said sounds being associated with said pronunciation information; and

    (h) recalling the sounds associated with said text to generate a raw speech signal from said marked up text after said parsing using phonetic and expressive parsing rules.

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