Text-to-speech system and method thereof
AssigneeDelta Electronics, Inc.
InventorsJia-Lin Shen, Wen-Wei Liao, Ching-Ho Tsai
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Abstract
The present invention is related to a text-to-speech system, including a text processor dividing a first text data and a second text data from a text string having at least a first language and a second language; a database including a plurality of acoustic units commonly used by the first and second languages; a first speech synthesis unit and a second speech synthesis unit generating a first speech data corresponding to the first text data and a second speech data corresponding to the second text data respectively by using the plurality of acoustic units; and a prosody processor optimizing prosodies of the first and second speech data.
Claims30
A text-to-speech system, comprising:
- a text processor dividing a first text data and a second text data from a text string having at least a first language and a second language;
- a database comprising a plurality of acoustic units commonly used by said first and second language;
- a first speech synthesis unit and a second speech synthesis unit generating a first speech data corresponding to said first text data and a second speech data corresponding to said second text data respectively by using said plurality of acoustic units;
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- a prosody processor optimizing prosodies of said first and second speech data.
A method for a text-to-speech conversion, comprising steps of:
- (a) providing a text string comprising at least a first language and a second language;
- (b) discriminating a first text data and a second text data from said text string;
- (c) providing a database having a plurality of acoustic units commonly used by said first language and said second language;
- (d) generating a first speech data corresponding to said first text data and a second speech data corresponding to said second text data respectively by using said plurality of acoustic units;
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- (e) optimizing prosodies of said first and second speech data.
A text-to-speech system, comprising:
- a text processor discriminating a first text data and a second text data from a text data comprising at least a first language and a second language;
- a translation module translating said second text data to a translated data in said first language;
- a speech synthesis unit receiving said first text data and said translated data and generating a speech data therefrom;
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- a prosody processor optimizing a prosody of said speech data.
A method for a text-to-speech conversion, comprising steps of:
- (a) providing a text data comprising at least a first language and a second language;
- (b) dividing a first text data and a second text data from said text data;
- (c) translating said second text data to a translated data in said first language;
- (d) generating a speech data corresponding to said first text data and said translated data;
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- (e) optimizing a prosody of said speech data.
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