Method and system for generating natural sounding...

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2007-12-11

2007-12-11

Opsasnick, Michael (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Synthesis

Reexamination Certificate

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10378338

ABSTRACT:
A method for generating synthetic speech can include identifying a recording of conversational speech and creating a transcription of the conversational speech. Using the transcription, rather than a predefined script, the recording can be analyzed and acoustic units extracted. Each acoustic unit can include a phoneme and/or a sub-phoneme. The acoustic units can be stored so that a concatenative text-to-speech engine can later splice the acoustic units together to produce synthetic speech.

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