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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
