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US 7,069,216 B2Granted
Corpus-based prosody translation system
AssigneeNuance Communications, Inc.
InventorsJan DeMoortel, Justin Fackrell, Peter Rutten, Bert Van Coile
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Abstract
A method of prosody translation is given. A target input symbol sequence is provided, including a first set of speech prosody descriptors. An instance-based learning algorithm is applied to a corpus of speech unit descriptors to select an output symbol sequence representative of the target input symbol sequence and including a second set of speech prosody descriptors. The second set differs from the first set.
Claims12
A method of translating speech prosody comprising:
- providing a target input symbol sequence including a first set of speech prosody descriptors;
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- applying an instance-based learning algorithm to a corpus of speech unit descriptors to select an output symbol sequence representative of the target input symbol sequence and including a second set of speech prosody descriptors, the second set differing from the first set.
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