Defining atom units between phone and syllable for TTS systems

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2005-01-11

2008-08-26

Smits, Talivaldis Ivars (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Synthesis

74

Reexamination Certificate

active

07418389

ABSTRACT:
A method for identifying common multiphone units to add to a unit inventory for a text-to-speech generator is disclosed. The common multiphone units are units that are larger than a phone, but smaller than a syllable. The method slices each syllable into a plurality of slices. These slices are then sorted and the frequency of each slice is determined. Those slices whose frequencies exceed a threshold are added to the unit inventory. The remaining slices are decomposed according to a predetermined set of rules to determine if they contain slices that should be added to the unit inventory.

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