EP1638080A3 - A text-to-speech system and method - Google Patents

A text-to-speech system and method Download PDF

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EP1638080A3
EP1638080A3 EP05107389A EP05107389A EP1638080A3 EP 1638080 A3 EP1638080 A3 EP 1638080A3 EP 05107389 A EP05107389 A EP 05107389A EP 05107389 A EP05107389 A EP 05107389A EP 1638080 A3 EP1638080 A3 EP 1638080A3
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Christel Amato
Hubert Crepy
Stephane Revelin
Claire Waast-Richard
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    • 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
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A system and method for generating synthetic speech is disclosed. The invention operates in a computer implemented Text-To-Speech system comprising at least a speaker database that has been previously created from user recordings, a Front-End system to receive an input text and a Text-To-Speech engine. Particularly, the Front-End system generates multiple phonetic transcriptions for each word of the input text, and the TTS engine is using a cost function to select which phonetic transcription is the more appropriate for searching the speech segments within the speaker database to be concatenated and synthesized.
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EP0953970A2 (en) * 1998-04-29 1999-11-03 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Method and apparatus using decision trees to generate and score multiple pronunciations for a spelled word

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EP0953970A2 (en) * 1998-04-29 1999-11-03 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Method and apparatus using decision trees to generate and score multiple pronunciations for a spelled word

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H.CREPY, C.AMATO-BEAUJARD, J.M.MARCADET, C.WAAST RICHARD: "Optimisation d'arbres de décision pour la conversion graphème-phonème", XXIV-ÈMES JOURNEES D'ETUDE SUR LA PAROLE, 24 June 2002 (2002-06-24) - 27 June 2002 (2002-06-27), Nancy, pages 369 - 372, XP002384147 *
IVAN BULYKO AND MARI OSTENDORF: "Unit Selection for Speech Synthesis Using Splicing Costs with Weighted Finite State Transducers", PROCEEDINGS OF EUROSPEECH 2001, vol. 2, 3 September 2001 (2001-09-03) - 7 September 2001 (2001-09-07), AALBORG, DK, pages 987 - 990, XP007005176 *

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