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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185396 | Facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a domain name or a network address containing a domain name To facilitate text-to-speech conversion of a username, a first or last name of a user associated with the username may be retrieved, and a pronunciation of the username may be determined based at least in part on whether the name forms at least part of the username.... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185395 | Information transmission device An information transmission device which analyzes a diction of a speaker and provides an utterance in accordance with the diction of the speaker, and which has a microphone detecting a sound signal of the speaker, a feature extraction unit extracting at least one fe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175880 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and recording medium An image processing apparatus comprises an image data input portion that inputs image data and a text data input portion that inputs text data. The text data inputted by the text data input portion is converted into voice data by a voice data converter, and this obt... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175879 | System-effected text annotation for expressive prosody in speech synthesis and recognition The inventive system can automatically annotate the relationship of text and acoustic units for the purposes of: (a) predicting how the text is to be pronounced as expressively synthesized speech, and (b) improving the proportion of expressively uttered speech as co... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170877 | Printing to a text-to-speech output device A method for producing speech output can include the step of selecting a TTS output device from a plurality of available output devices. The selected output device can be associated with outputting content of an application responsive to a print command. According t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170878 | Method and apparatus for automatically converting voice The invention proposes a method and apparatus for significantly improving the quality of voice morphing and guaranteeing the similarity of converted voice. The invention sets several standard speakers in a TTS database, and selects the voices of different standard s... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165881 | System and method for variable text-to-speech with minimized distraction to operator of an automotive vehicle A text-to-speech (TTS) system implemented in an automotive vehicle is dynamically tuned to increase intelligibility over a wide variety of vehicle operating states and environmental conditions by tuning characteristics of the synthesized voice in response to measure... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160881 | Human-assisted pronunciation generation Pronunciation generation may be provided. First, a pronunciation interface may be provided. The pronunciation interface may be configured to display a word and a plurality of alternatives corresponding to a one of a plurality of parts of the word. The plurality of p... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160880 | Generalized object recognition for portable reading machine Techniques for operating a reading machine are disclosed. The techniques include forming an N-dimensional features vector based on features of an image, the features corresponding to characteristics of at least one object depicted in the image, representing the feat... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155963 | Autonomous system and method for creating readable scripts for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) corpora 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 ge... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155964 | Voice quality edit device and voice quality edit method This invention includes: a voice quality feature database (101) holding voice quality features; a speaker attribute database (106) holding, for each voice quality feature, an identifier enabling a user to expect a voice quality of the voice quality fea... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8135592 | Speech synthesizer The present invention relates to a technology capable of providing a hearer with an easy-to-hear synthetic speech to the hearer. The speech synthesizer includes an input unit receiving an input of a sentence, a generation unit generating synthetic speech data from t... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131549 | Personality-based device A personality-based theme may be provided to a device. An application program may query a personality resource file for a prompt corresponding to a personality. Then the prompt may be received at a text to speech synthesis engine. Next, the speech synthesis engine m... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131550 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing improved voice conversion An apparatus for providing improved voice conversion includes a sub-feature generator and a transformation element. The sub-feature generator may be configured to define sub-feature units with respect to a feature of source speech. The transformation element may be ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126717 | System and method for predicting prosodic parameters A method for generating a prosody model that predicts prosodic parameters is disclosed. Upon receiving text annotated with acoustic features, the method comprises generating first classification and regression trees (CARTs) that predict durations and F0 from text by... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126718 | Facilitating text-to-speech conversion of a username or a network address containing a username To facilitate text-to-speech conversion of a username, a first or last name of a user associated with the username may be retrieved, and a pronunciation of the username may be determined based at least in part on whether the name forms at least part of the username.... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121841 | Text-to-speech method and system, computer program product therefor A text-to-speech system adapted to operate on text in a first language including sections in a second language, includes a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor for converting the sections in the second language into phonemes of the second language; a mapping module configu... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121842 | Audio output of a document from mobile device Architecture for playing a document converted into an audio format to a user of an audio-output capable device. The user can interact with the device to control play of the audio document such as pause, rewind, forward, etc. In more robust implementation, the audio-... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117034 | Synchronise an audio cursor and a text cursor during editing A speech recognition device (1) processes speech data (SD) of a dictation and thus establishes recognized text information (ETI) and link information (LI) of the dictation. In a synchronous playback mode of the speech recognition device (1), during the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112279 | Automatic creation of audio files A method of building an audio description of a particular product of a class of products includes providing a plurality of human voice recordings, wherein each of the human voice recordings includes audio corresponding to an attribute value common to many of the pro... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103505 | Method and apparatus for speech synthesis using paralinguistic variation A method and apparatus for speech synthesis in a computer-user interface using random paralinguistic variation is described herein. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for synthesizing speech comprises generating synthesized speech having cert... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103506 | Free text matching system and method The present disclosure provides method and system for converting a free text expression of an identity to a phonetic equivalent code. The conversion follows a set of rules based on phonetic groupings and compresses the expression to a shorter series of characters th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099281 | System and method for word-sense disambiguation by recursive partitioning A device and related methods for word-sense disambiguation during a text-to-speech conversion are provided. The device, for use with a computer-based system capable of converting text data to synthesized speech, includes an identification module for identifying a ho... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095365 | System and method for increasing recognition rates of in-vocabulary words by improving pronunciation modeling The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating a lexicon for use with speech recognition. The method includes receiving symbolic input as labeled speech data, overgenerating potential pronunciations based on the symbol... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086457 | System and method for client voice building Provided is a system and method for building and managing a customized voice of an end-user, comprising the steps of designing a set of prompts for collection from the user, wherein the prompts are selected from both an analysis tool and by the user's own choosing t... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082152 | Device for communication for persons with speech and/or hearing handicap A portable device enables a text to be constructed by an input interface, then to be sent on a voice synthesis engine. The synthesized voice is rendered audible through a loudspeaker. The synthesized voice can also be sent over a telephone network addressed to anoth... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073695 | Electronic book with voice emulation features A method and system for providing text-to-audio conversion of an electronic book displayed on a viewer. A user selects a portion of displayed text and converts it into audio. The text-to-audio conversion may be performed via a header file and pre-recorded audio for ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073696 | Voice synthesis device A voice synthesis device is provided to include: an emotion input unit obtaining an utterance mode of a voice waveform, a prosody generation unit generating a prosody, a characteristic tone selection unit selecting a characteristic tone based on the utterance mode; ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065149 | Unsupervised lexicon acquisition from speech and text Techniques for acquiring, from an input text and an input speech, a set of a character string and a pronunciation thereof which should be recognized as a word. A system according to the present invention: selects, from an input text, plural candidate character strin... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065150 | Application of emotion-based intonation and prosody to speech in text-to-speech systems A text-to-speech system that includes an arrangement for accepting text input, an arrangement for providing synthetic speech output, and an arrangement for imparting emotion-based features to synthetic speech output. The arrangement for imparting emotion-based featu... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060370 | Integrated system and method for mobile audio playback and dictation A method and system provides for a single-pass review and feedback of a document. During audio playback of the document to be reviewed, voice-activated recording of feedback and submission of feedback relative to the location in the original document are accomplishe... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050927 | Apparatus and method for outputting voice relating to the preferences of a user Provided is an apparatus and method for output voice, which receives an information item suitable to a user's taste among information items existing on a network such as the Internet in a text format, converts the information item into voice, and then outputs the vo... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8032378 | Content and advertising service using one server for the content, sending it to another for advertisement and text-to-speech synthesis before presenting to user Methods and systems for providing a network-accessible text-to-speech synthesis service are provided. The service accepts content as input. After extracting textual content from the input content, the service transforms the content into a format suitable for high-qu... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032377 | Grapheme to phoneme alignment method and relative rule-set generating system Grapheme-to-phoneme alignment quality is improved by introducing a first preliminary alignment step, followed by an enlargement step of the grapheme-set and phoneme-set, and a second alignment step based on the previously enlarged grapheme /phoneme sets. During the ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027836 | Phonetic decoding and concatentive speech synthesis A speech processing system includes a multiplexer that receives speech data input as part of a conversation turn in a conversation session between two or more users where one user is a speaker and each of the other users is a listener in each conversation turn. A sp... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019605 | Reducing recording time when constructing a concatenative TTS voice using a reduced script and pre-recorded speech assets The present invention discloses a system and a method for creating a reduced script, which is read by a voice talent to create a concatenative text-to-speech (TTS) voice. The method can automatically process pre-recorded audio to derive speech assets for a concatena... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015009 | Speech derived from text in computer presentation applications A computer system comprising hardware and software elements; the hardware elements including a processor, a display means and a speaker, the software elements comprising a speech synthesizer, a database platform and a software application comprising a methodology of... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015011 | Generating objectively evaluated sufficiently natural synthetic speech from text by using selective paraphrases A synthetic speech system includes a phoneme segment storage section for storing multiple phoneme segment data pieces; a synthesis section for generating voice data from text by reading phoneme segment data pieces representing the pronunciation of an inputted text f... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015010 | Vehicle communication system with news subscription service A vehicle communication system facilitates hands-free interaction with a mobile device in a vehicle or elsewhere. The invention also provides remote access to information such as existing news sources (i.e. existing RSS feeds) and supported websites. This also inclu... | 09/06/2011 |
| RE42647 | Text-to speech conversion system for synchronizing between synthesized speech and a moving picture in a multimedia environment and a method of the same The present invention provides a text-to-speech conversion system (TTS) for interlocking synchronizing with multimedia and a method for organizing input data of the TTS which can enhance the natural naturalness of synthesized speech and accomplish the synchronizatio... | 08/23/2011 |
