EP1668628A4 - Method for synthesizing speech - Google Patents

Method for synthesizing speech

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EP1668628A4
EP1668628A4 EP04784355A EP04784355A EP1668628A4 EP 1668628 A4 EP1668628 A4 EP 1668628A4 EP 04784355 A EP04784355 A EP 04784355A EP 04784355 A EP04784355 A EP 04784355A EP 1668628 A4 EP1668628 A4 EP 1668628A4
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synthesizing speech
speech
synthesizing
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French (fr)
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EP1668628A1 (en
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Fang Chen
Gui-Lin Chen
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Motorola Solutions Inc
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Motorola Inc
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G10L13/06—Elementary speech units used in speech synthesisers; Concatenation rules
    • G10L13/07—Concatenation rules
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G10L13/10—Prosody rules derived from text; Stress or intonation
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G10L13/06—Elementary speech units used in speech synthesisers; Concatenation rules

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  • Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology (AREA)
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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Acoustics & Sound (AREA)
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CNB031326986A CN1260704C (en) 2003-09-29 2003-09-29 Method for voice synthesizing
PCT/US2004/030467 WO2005034082A1 (en) 2003-09-29 2004-09-17 Method for synthesizing speech

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