Text parser for use with a text-to-speech converter

Details Text parser for use with a text-to-speech converter Text parser for use with a text-to-speech converter

1995-04-07

1996-09-10

MacDonald, Allen R.

395 267, 395 276, G10L 900

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055553435

ABSTRACT:
A text parser for a text-to-speech processor accepts a text stream and parses the text stream to detect non-spoken characters and spoken characters. The spoken characters are passed to the text-to-speech converter and are not altered. A text generator generates pre-designated text sequences in response to non-spoken characters, such as special character sequences or character sequences which match format templates. A speech command generator generates speech commands in response to detecting of non-spoken characters such as non-spoken characters which affect text style, font, underlining, etc. The text-to-speech converter converts spoken text parsed by the parser and text generated by the text generator into speech, the text-to-speech converter being operable in response to speech commands generated by the speech command generator. According to the invention, it is not necessary to pre-process text files in preparation for text-to-speech conversion, and arbitrary files which contain both spoken and non-spoken characters may be converted easily.

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