Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Speech signal processing – Application
Reexamination Certificate
2005-09-27
2010-06-22
Hudspeth, David R (Department: 2626)
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Speech signal processing
Application
C704S235000, C704S258000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07742921
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein are various innovations associated with a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The inventions in each case may be in the form of the system, a computer-readable medium or a method for generating the TTS voice. An embodiment of the invention relates to a method of enabling human workers to find errors when developing a text-to-speech (TTS) voice. The method comprises presenting a graphical user interface wherein after a first pass of automatic speech recognition (ASR) of a speech corpus is complete, the interface presents to a worker a graphical representation of an alignment of the ASR results, associated words and phonemes and the audio, receiving a graphical input from the worker associated with a selection of a word or phoneme and presenting the audio associated with the selected word or phoneme.
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Davis Steven Lawrence
Fetters Shane
Gustafson Beverly
Loney Louise
Schulz David Eugene
Albertalli Brian L
AT&T Intellectual Property II L.P.
Hudspeth David R
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