Method for generating a statistic for phone lengths and...

Details Method for generating a statistic for phone lengths and... Method for generating a statistic for phone lengths and...

2005-08-23

2005-08-23

Azad, Abul K. (Department: 2654)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Recognition

C704S260000, C704S258000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06934680

ABSTRACT:
A statistic for phone lengths is generated by determining the length of individual phones for speech synthesis. A primary statistic is based on primary clusters (for example triphones), and a secondary statistic is based on secondary clusters (for example phonemes of entire words). Both statistics include average phone lengths and, for example, the standard variation of the average phone lengths. During the determination of phone lengths, it is firstly attempted to determine the average phone lengths and standard variation of the average phone lengths by reference to the secondary statistic which is more language-specific. If this is not the case, the primary statistic, which can always be applied, is resorted to. By this two stage method, a phone length is determined which corresponds significantly better to a natural language than has been possible with the conventional single stage method.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5490234 (1996-02-01), Narayan
patent: 5970452 (1999-10-01), Sharman
patent: 6546367 (2003-04-01), Otsuka
patent: 694 20 547 (2000-07-01), None
Huang et al.; Spoken Language processing: Prentice-Hall Inc; 2001; pp. 430-434.
Georg Fries et al., “Felix-A TTS System with Improved Pre-processing and Source Signal Generation”, 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, vol. 2 of 5, Sep. 22, 1997, pp. 589-592.
Translation of European Search Report for EP 01 11 4696.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Method for generating a statistic for phone lengths and... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Method for generating a statistic for phone lengths and..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Method for generating a statistic for phone lengths and... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-3450148