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AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsYeon-Jun KIM, Mark Charles BEUTNAGEL, Alistair D. CONKIE, Taniya MISHRA
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Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for text-to-speech processing having an improved intonation. The system first receives text to be converted to speech, the text having a first segment and a second segment. The system then compares the text to a database of stored utterances, identifying in the database a first utterance corresponding to the first segment and determining an intonation of the first utterance. When the database does not contain a second utterance corresponding to the second segment, the system generates the speech corresponding to the text by combining the first utterance with a generated second utterance corresponding to the second segment, the generated second utterance having the intonation matching, or based on, the first utterance. These actions lead to an improved, smoother, more human-like synthetic speech output from the system.
A method comprising:
A system comprising:
A computer-readable storage device having instruction stored which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
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