Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Speech signal processing – Synthesis
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-15
2005-02-15
McFadden, Susan (Department: 2655)
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Speech signal processing
Synthesis
C704S258000, C704S270000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06856958
ABSTRACT:
Techniques are described for employing a set of tags to model phenomena which are smooth and subject to constraints. Tags may be used to model, for example, muscular movement producing speech. In one advantageous application, a set of tags defining prosodic characteristics is developed, and selected tags are placed in appropriate locations of a body of text. Each tag defines a constraint on the prosodic characteristics of speech produced by processing the text. Processing of the body of speech and the tags produces a set of equations which are solved to produce a curve defining prosodic characteristics over the scope of a phrase, and a further set of equations which are solved to produce a curve defining prosodic characteristics of individual words within a phrase. The data defined by the curves is used with the text to produce speech having the prosodic characteristics defined by the tags. A set of tags may be produced by reading of a training text by a target speaker to produce a training corpus reflecting the prosodic characteristics of the target speaker, and then analyzing the training corpus to generate tags modeling the prosodic characteristics of the training corpus.
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Kochanski Gregory P.
Shih Chi-Lin
Lucent Technologies - Inc.
McFadden Susan
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