EP1184838A3 - Phonetic transcription for speech synthesis - Google Patents

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EP1184838A3
EP1184838A3 EP01113053A EP01113053A EP1184838A3 EP 1184838 A3 EP1184838 A3 EP 1184838A3 EP 01113053 A EP01113053 A EP 01113053A EP 01113053 A EP01113053 A EP 01113053A EP 1184838 A3 EP1184838 A3 EP 1184838A3
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Horst-Udo Hain
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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
    • G10L13/08—Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination

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Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren, eine Anordnung und ein Computerprogrammprodukt zur Sprachsynthese mittels einer Graphem-Phonem-Umsetzung. Dabei wird für ein gegebenes Wort in einer Datenbank, die phonetische Transkriptionen von Wörtern enthält, nach Teilwörtern des gegebenen Wortes gesucht. Wird mindestens ein Teilwort des gegebenen Wortes in der Datenbank gefunden, so wird für das gefundene Teilwort eine in der Datenbank verzeichnete phonetische Transkription gewählt. Das gegebene Wort weist neben dem gefundenen Teilwort mindestens einen weiteren Bestandteil auf, der nicht in der Datenbank verzeichnet ist. Dieser weitere Bestandteil wird mittels einer OOV-Behandlung phonetisch transkribiert wird und die phonetische Transkription des gefundenen Teilwortes und die phonetische Transkription des weiteren Bestandteils wird zusammengesetzt.The invention relates to a method, an arrangement and a Computer program product for speech synthesis using a grapheme-phoneme implementation. For a given word in a database of phonetic transcriptions of words contains, searched for partial words of the given word. Becomes at least one partial word of the given word in the database is found, one is found in the database for the partial word found recorded phonetic transcription. The given word has at least next to the found subword another component that is not in the database is listed. This additional component is created using a OOV treatment is transcribed phonetically and the phonetic Transcription of the partial word found and the phonetic Transcription of the further component is put together.

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