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US 2007/0168193 A1Published application
Autonomous system and method for creating readable scripts for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) corpora
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAndrew Aaron, David Ferrucci, John Pitrelli
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Abstract
A method (and system) which autonomously generates a cohesive script from a text database for creating a speech corpus for concatenative text-to-speech, and more particularly, which generates cohesive scripts having fluency and natural prosody that can be used to generate compact text-to-speech recordings that cover a plurality of phonetic events.
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A method of generating a speech corpus for concatenative text-to-speech, comprising:
- autonomously generating a cohesive script based on a text database.
A system for generating a speech corpus for concatenative text-to-speech, comprising:
- an extracting unit that extracts at least one enumerated phoneme sequence from a text database;
- an associating unit that associates each of said at least one enumerated phoneme sequence with a plurality of words included in said text database that include said each of said at least one enumerated phoneme sequence;
- a selecting unit that selects N words that include said each of said at least one enumerated phoneme sequence;
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- an autonomous language generating unit which receives the N selected words and generates a cohesive script.
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