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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8005677 | Source-dependent text-to-speech system A method of generating speech from text messages includes determining a speech feature vector for a voice associated with a source of a text message, and comparing the speech feature vector to speaker models. The method also includes selecting one of the speaker mod... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996225 | Utilizing speech grammar rules written in a markup language The present invention provides a method and apparatus that utilize a context-free grammar written in a markup language format. The markup language format provides a hierarchical format in which grammar structures are delimited within and defined by a set of tags. Th... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996226 | System and method of developing a TTS voice Disclosed herein are various aspects of a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The embodiments in each case may be in the form of the system, a computer-readable medium or a method for generating the TTS voice. An embodiment of ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991616 | Speech synthesizer The present invention is a speech synthesizer that generates speech data of text including a fixed part and a variable part, in combination with recorded speech and rule-based synthetic speech. The speech synthesizer is a high-quality one in which recorded speech an... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987092 | Method, apparatus, and program for certifying a voice profile when transmitting text messages for synthesized speech A mechanism is provided for authenticating and using a personal voice profile. The voice profile may be issued by a trusted third party, such as a certification authority. The personal voice profile may include information for generating a digest or digital signatur... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7987093 | Speech synthesizing device, speech synthesizing system, language processing device, speech synthesizing method and recording medium A speech synthesizing device, the device includes: a text accepting unit for accepting text data; an extracting unit for extracting a special character including a pictographic character, a face mark or a symbol from text data accepted by the text accepting unit; a ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983919 | System and method for performing speech synthesis with a cache of phoneme sequences Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing speech synthesis. The method embodiment comprises applying a first part of a speech synthesizer to a text corpus to obtain a plurality of phoneme sequences, the first part of the speech synth... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7966184 | System and method for audible web site navigation Systems and methods for an audio-based content management, navigation and retrieval system are provided. The system translates and organizes content, for example text, Podcasts, RSS, pictures, video, into audio output, and provides intelligent access to the content ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966185 | 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... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957972 | Voice recognition system and method thereof A voice recognition system and method thereof. The communication system comprises a setup controller, a voice recognition controller, and an application controller. The setup controller receives a voice keyword table including a voice recognizable keyword and a corr... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953601 | Method and apparatus for preparing a document to be read by text-to-speech reader There is disclosed a method and system for preparing a document to be read by a text-to-speech reader. The method can include identifying two or more voice types available to the text-to-speech reader, identifying the text elements within the document, grouping rela... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945851 | Enabling dynamic voiceXML in an X+V page of a multimodal application Enabling dynamic VoiceXML in an X+V page of a multimodal application implemented with the multimodal application operating in a multimodal browser on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes,... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7921014 | System and method for supporting text-to-speech A system for generating high-quality synthesized text-to-speech includes a learning data generating unit, a frequency data generating unit, and a setting unit. The learning data generating unit recognizes inputted speech, and then generates first learning data in wh... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921013 | System and method for sending multi-media messages using emoticons A system and method of providing sender-customization of multi-media messages through the use of emoticons is disclosed. The sender inserts the emoticons into a text message. As an animated face audibly delivers the text, emoticons associated with the message are st... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912719 | Speech synthesis device and speech synthesis method for changing a voice characteristic A speech synthesis device, in which the sound quality is not significantly degraded when generating a synthesized sound, includes a target element information generation unit (102), an element database (103), an element selection unit (104), a v... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899672 | Method and system for generating synthesized speech based on human recording A method and system that incorporates human recording with a TTS system to generate synthesized speech with high quality by searching over a database of pre-recorded utterances to select an utterance best matching text content to be synthesized into speech; dividing... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7885814 | Text information display apparatus equipped with speech synthesis function, speech synthesis method of same A text information display apparatus equipped with a speech synthesis function able to clearly display a linked portion by speech and enabling easy recognition of a change from a link, provided with a controller for referring to the display rules of text to be conve... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7877259 | Prosodic speech text codes and their use in computerized speech systems A method of, and system for, acoustically coding text for use in the synthesis of speech from the text. The method includes marking the text to be spoken with one or more graphic symbols to indicate to a speaker a desired prosody to impart to the spoken text. The ma... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869999 | Systems and methods for selecting from multiple phonectic transcriptions for text-to-speech synthesis A system and method for generating synthetic speech, which operates in a computer implemented Text-To-Speech system. The system comprises at least a speaker database that has been previously created from user recordings, a Front-End system to receive an input text a... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865366 | Data preparation for media browsing A system is described which includes a content retriever to retrieve and format data and a media file playlist generated by the content retriever from the data. The media file playlist includes a playlist entry title identifying a title for a media file, a file name... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7853452 | Interactive debugging and tuning of methods for CTTS voice building A method, a system, and an apparatus for identifying and correcting sources of problems in synthesized speech which is generated using a concatenative text-to-speech (CTTS) technique. The method can include the step of displaying a waveform corresponding to synthesi... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844462 | Spatial sound generation for screen navigation Methods and apparatus for spatial sound generation for screen navigation are disclosed. An example method for spatial sound generation comprises receiving an indication of a cursor focus position, where the cursor focus position corresponds with a location on a disp... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7844463 | Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis According to MPEG-4's TTS architecture, facial animation can be driven by two streams simultaneously—text and Facial Animation Parameters. A Text-To-Speech converter drives the mouth shapes of the face. An encoder sends Facial Animation Parameters to the face. The... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7844461 | Information processing apparatus and method Provided are an information processing apparatus and method so adapted that if a plurality of speech output units having a speech synthesizing function are present, a conversion is made to speech having mutually different feature quantitys so that a user can readily... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7809572 | Voice quality change portion locating apparatus A text edit apparatus which presents, based on language analysis information regarding a text, a portion of the text where voice quality may change when the text is read aloud has advantages of predicting likelihood of the voice quality change and judging whether or... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805307 | Text to speech conversion system A system for the automated conversion to audio of text displayed on a surface. ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7788098 | Predicting tone pattern information for textual information used in telecommunication systems The techniques described include generating tonal information from a textual entry and, further, applying this tonal information to PINYIN sequences using decision trees. For example, a method of predicting tone pattern information for textual information used in te... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7761301 | Prosodic control rule generation method and apparatus, and speech synthesis method and apparatus A prosodic control rule generation method includes dividing an input text into language units, estimating a punctuation mark incidence at a boundary between language units in the input text, the punctuation mark incidence indicating a degree that a punctuation mark ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761300 | Programmable virtual exercise instructor for providing computerized spoken guidance of customized exercise routines to exercise users A programmable virtual exercise instructor processes a word processing document having text chunks corresponding to instructions of actions of an activity in order to communicate the instructions to a person performing the activity. The activity may be an exercise r... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7747440 | Methods and apparatus for conveying synthetic speech style from a text-to-speech system A technique for producing speech output in a text-to-speech system is provided. A message is created for communication to a user in a natural language generator of the text-to-speech system. The message is annotated in the natural language generator with a synthetic... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742919 | System and method for repairing a TTS voice database The present invention provides various elements of a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The embodiments in each case may be in the form of the system, a computer-readable medium or a method for generating the TTS voice. One em... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739113 | Voice synthesizer, voice synthesizing method, and computer program A voice synthesizer includes a recorded voice storage portion (124) that stores recorded voices that are pre-recorded; a voice input portion (110) that is input with a reading voice reading out a text that is to be generated by the synthesized voice; a... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7702510 | System and method for dynamically selecting among TTS systems Systems and methods for dynamically selecting among text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Exemplary embodiments of the systems and methods include identifying text for converting into a speech waveform, synthesizing said text by three TTS systems, generating a candidate wav... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698140 | Message transcription, voice query and query delivery system A message transmission system accepts a telephone call from a user who wishes to send an e-mail message, send an SMS message, perform an Internet query or retrieve his or her electronic mail. The voice call is transcribed and the message is sent, or the question in ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693716 | System and method of developing a TTS voice Disclosed herein are various aspects of a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The embodiments in each case may be in the form of the system, a computer-readable medium or a method for generating the TTS voice. An embodiment of ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693717 | Session file modification with annotation using speech recognition or text to speech An apparatus comprising a session file, session file editor, annotation window, concatenation software and training software. The session file includes one or more audio files and text associated with each audio file segment. The session file editor displays text an... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689421 | Voice persona service for embedding text-to-speech features into software programs Described is a voice persona service by which users convert text into speech waveforms, based on user-provided parameters and voice data from a service data store. The service may be remotely accessed, such as via the Internet. The user may provide text tagged with ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7676368 | Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program for converting text data to audio data The present invention is intended to perform text-to-speech conversion by replacing URLs and electronic mail addresses included in the text data of electronic mail by registered predetermined words. A mail watcher application control section executes the processing ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7647226 | Apparatus and method for creating pitch wave signals, apparatus and method for compressing, expanding, and synthesizing speech signals using these pitch wave signals and text-to-speech conversion using unit pitch wave signals A pitch wave signal creation method as a preliminary process for efficiently coding a speech wave signal having a fluctuated pitch period is provided. A speech signal compressing/expanding apparatus and a speech signal synthesizing apparatus using the method, and a ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7636662 | System and method for audio-visual content synthesis A system and method is provided for synthesizing audio-visual content in a video image processor. A content synthesis application processor extracts audio features and video features from audio-visual input signals that represent a speaker who is speaking. The proce... | 12/22/2009 |
