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US 2017/0287464 A1Published application
Method and apparatus to synthesize voice based on facial structures
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsShamim Begum, Alexander A. Oganezov
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Abstract
Disclosed are embodiments for use in an articulatory-based text-to-speech conversion system configured to establish an articulatory speech synthesis model of a person's voice based on facial characteristics defining exteriorly visible articulatory speech synthesis model parameters of the person's voice and on a predefined articulatory speech synthesis model selected from among stores of predefined models.
Claims15
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A method for speech to text conversion, comprising:
- sending, to an articulatory model server, exterior facial structural information of a person;
- receiving, from the articulatory model server, at least a portion of a predefined articulatory model that corresponds to the exterior facial structural information;
- and
- converting text input to speech output based at least partly on the predefined articulatory model.
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A method for speech to text conversion, comprising:
- receiving, from a user equipment device, exterior facial structural information of a person;
- determining at least a portion of an articulatory model that corresponds to the exterior facial structural information based on a comparison of the exterior facial structural information to exterior facial structural information stored in a database of articulatory models;
- and
- sending, to the user equipment device, the at least the portion of the articulatory model that corresponds to the exterior facial structural information of the person.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.