Method and apparatus for assigning word prominence to new or...

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2007-12-25

2007-12-25

Storm, Donald L. (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Synthesis

C704S009000, C704S257000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10439217

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus is provided for generating speech that sounds more natural. In one embodiment, word prominence and latent semantic analysis are used to generate more natural sounding speech. A method for generating speech that sounds more natural may comprise generating synthesized speech having certain word prominence characteristics and applying a semantically-driven word prominence assignment model to specify word prominence consistent with the way humans assign word prominence. A speech representative of a current sentence is generated. The determination is made whether information in the current sentence is new or previously given in accordance with a semantic relationship between the current sentence and a number of preceding sentences. A word prominence is assigned to a word in the current sentence in accordance with the information determination.

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