EP0738994B1 - Appareil d'information routière muni d'une mémoire de messages et d'un générateur de synthèse vocale - Google Patents

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EP0738994B1
EP0738994B1 EP96200938A EP96200938A EP0738994B1 EP 0738994 B1 EP0738994 B1 EP 0738994B1 EP 96200938 A EP96200938 A EP 96200938A EP 96200938 A EP96200938 A EP 96200938A EP 0738994 B1 EP0738994 B1 EP 0738994B1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/123—Traffic control systems for road vehicles indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, trams
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    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L13/00—Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/09—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions
    • G08G1/091—Traffic information broadcasting
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    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/09—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions
    • G08G1/0962—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
    • G08G1/0968—Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle
    • G08G1/0969—Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle having a display in the form of a map

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  • Such a device is for example a car radio receiver intended to receive and exploit signals called RDS / TMC, or well a route guidance device, also called navigation. It can deliver information messages on traffic or intended for guiding a vehicle in recording messages on a screen and / or delivering them by voice synthesis.
  • the present invention also relates to a generator module traffic information messages including or being associated with a vocabulary memory, and provided with means for read numerical data which constitute the description vocabulary elements, each of the descriptions of vocabulary elements being addressable from a code number designating a vocabulary element.
  • the present invention also relates to a portable card intended for use in a generation device messages, provided with a vocabulary memory containing vocabulary item descriptions, in which each of the vocabulary item descriptions is addressable from a code number designating an element vocabulary, the memory containing for each of vocabulary elements of numerical data that describe this element of vocabulary.
  • a text-to-speech generator is known from the document EP-A-0 059 880.
  • the definition of a word is supplied as ASCII characters entered sequentially, and a microcontroller interrogates a ROM memory containing pronunciation rules, for y figure out how to pronounce a character set given.
  • a problem arises from the fact that in some languages, several different pronunciation rules apply according to words. For example in English, "gh” characters are not pronounced the same way in "rough” and in "ghost". To resolve this problem, the text-to-speech generator according to this document uses a complex ruleset which must take into account a large number of different situations, and that is different depending on language (English, German, French, etc.).
  • An object of the invention is to simplify generation phonemes, and decrease the memory required.
  • the invention is therefore based on the remark that, in a automotive messaging system, the number of words required is much less than the number of words in the everyday language and that, therefore, although the addition digital data that defines pronunciation practically lead to double the memory size of vocabulary elements, this is not annoying whereas this would be unacceptable in the case of a generator universal speech synthesis. What is gained in memory by removing the complex rule set is more important than the increase in the size of the vocabulary memory, in the application envisioned here.
  • the memory advantageously contains names of localization with both alphanumeric characters of these names and a sequence of numeric data which defines their pronunciation.
  • At least part of the memory of vocabulary is contained in a removable card.
  • the map removable contains in particular data concerning names of location points.
  • the format of card can be standardized and the device is then easily adaptable to different countries, changing simply card.
  • the memory advantageously contains point names of localization with both alphanumeric characters of these names and a sequence of numeric data which defines their pronunciation, and the part of memory that contains location point names installed in a removable card.
  • a module for generating traffic information messages according to the invention is remarkable in that it is provided with means to read from memory, for at least some of the vocabulary elements, on the one hand the characters alphanumeric of this vocabulary element, and other share a sequence of digital data that defines the pronunciation of this vocabulary element.
  • the module is provided with means for reading from the memory, including location point names with both the alphanumeric characters of these names and a sequence of digital data that defines their pronunciation.
  • a removable card according to the invention intended to be used in a message generation device, is remarkable in that his memory contains, for at least some of the vocabulary elements, both the alphanumeric characters of this vocabulary element and a sequence of digital data that defines the pronunciation of this vocabulary element. His memory contains in particular names of location points with to both the alphanumeric characters of these names and a sequence of digital data that defines their pronunciation.
  • Figure 1 shows schematically a receiver car radio equipped with the invention.
  • FIG. 2 shows in more detail the part concerned by the invention, and its connections with the rest of the device.
  • the receiver of FIG. 1 comprises, from a antenna 1, a device 2 ("tuner") containing a circuit tuning and a frequency change circuit, followed by a device 3 containing an amplifier to intermediate frequency and a demodulator.
  • a device 2 containing a circuit tuning and a frequency change circuit
  • a device 3 containing an amplifier to intermediate frequency and a demodulator.
  • a subcarrier FM is modulated by digital signals from data, useful for the reception of different transmitters of the same chain.
  • the receiver includes a decoder 13 for RDS messages.
  • TMC Traffic Message Channel
  • the receiver has a module 14, to which the RDS data of decoder 13 is brought by a bus 21, to be analyzed and possibly memorized. To allow delivery of messages under voice form, this module 14 is also connected to a system audio amplifier 4 followed by a speaker 5. It is also connected to an input / output interface device 18 connected to a control keyboard 12 and to a display screen 10, for example liquid crystal.
  • each field must be treated in a way to express clearly what it is about.
  • a permanent memory in which are stored clear information (e.g. in the form of codes ASCII characters of a message to be displayed), at addresses corresponding to the different possible contents of each field, which makes it possible to find the information to from the content of a field.
  • the 1 st field (describing an event), which has 11 bits, is associated with a memory which can contain in plain text 2048 vocabulary elements (i.e. 2 11 vocabulary elements), each being found at the address defined by the content of the field.
  • vocabulary elements say for example "traffic jam", “work”, “accident”, etc.
  • the 2 nd field (describing a location), which comprises 16 bits, is associated with a memory, known as the location point memory, which can contain in the clear up to 65,536 vocabulary elements (i.e. 2 16 vocabulary elements) which include complete data on in particular localization names, their type, the region to which they belong, the next and previous points, etc., each vocabulary element being in principle found at an address designated by the content of the field.
  • These vocabulary elements are for example "Paris”, or "Lille”, or "the exit 21", etc.
  • 65,536 elements are defined, to be chosen according to the application. The country concerned is indicated in a so-called PI code of RDS data, and the reference of the chosen database is indicated in a "system message" which is sent from time to time by each RDS / TMC transmitter.
  • extension is meant the fact that the event considered extends for example to the following location.
  • a bit O means for example "direction Paris ⁇ Lille", while a bit 1 would mean “direction Lille ⁇ Paris” (it is the content of field 2 which indicates that we are on a link between Paris and Lille, but the direction is not indicated there).
  • the microcontroller 7 selects and prepares data numerical, for example a series of codes each designating a phoneme, allowing a speech synthesis module 20 known per se, to generate phonemes in the form of analog signals delivered to audio amplifier 4 followed of speaker 5.
  • a phoneme is a unit sound of a language.
  • Document EP-A-0 059 880 teaches that in English there are 40 phonemes, but advise to use 127 "allophones", which are subsets of the phonemes, modified by their environment, which gives a more accurate representation of sounds. According to the degree of quality sought, the number of phonemes can therefore vary. Again, the number of different descriptions of phonemes is not very large, in general it is around a few dozen, defined in advance as "phonemes standard".
  • the microcontroller 7 When a TMC message arrives, the microcontroller 7 receives the contents of the fields from the RDS decoder 13, and writes them to memory 9. For display on the screen 10 and / or the voice transmission of this message , the microcontroller 7 extracts from memory 9 at least the contents of fields 1, 3, 4 which it interprets in a known manner, inter alia by reading in memory 8 the constituents of the message to be produced to announce the corresponding event, under the form for example of codes describing the corresponding statements. Then the microcontroller extracts from memory 9 the 2 nd field, it deduces therefrom an address in memory 23 by means of which it reads from this memory on the one hand the spelling of the corresponding location name and on the other hand the phonemes the constituent. It inserts the spelling in the appropriate places in the message to be displayed to announce the event, and the phonemes in the suitable places in the sequence of the phoneme codes which it supplies to the generator 20.

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