Patent
1997-01-29
1998-05-12
Hafiz, Tariq R.
395 267, 395 275, G10L 502, G10L 900
Patent
active
057519064
ABSTRACT:
Improved automated synthesis of human audible speech from text is disclosed. Performance enhancement of the underlying text comprehensibility is obtained through prosodic treatment of the synthesized material, improved speaking rate treatment, and improved methods of spelling words or terms for the sysstem user. Prosodic shaping of text sequences appropriate for the discourse in large groupings of text segments, with prosodic boundaries developed to indicate conceptual units within the text groupings, is implemented in a preferred embodiment.
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Hafiz Tariq R.
Michaelson Peter L.
Nynex Science & Technology
Straub Michael P.
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