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Text analysis system with letter sequence recognition and speech stress assignment arrangement

Patent 4829580 Issued on May 9, 1989. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject May 9, 2006. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

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Patent #: 4414629
Issued on: 11/08/1983
Inventor: Waite

Electronic translator for modifying and speaking out sentence
Patent #: 4443856
Issued on: 04/17/1984
Inventor: Hashimoto ,   et al.

Intonation-varying audio output device in electronic translator Patent #: 4455615
Issued on: 06/19/1984
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Inventor

Assignee

Application

No. 06/844077 filed on 03/26/1986

US Classes:

704/260, Image to speech704/1, LINGUISTICS704/8, Multilingual or national language support704/9Natural language

Examiners

Primary: Harkcom, Gary V.
Assistant: Anderson, Lawrence E.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Classes

G06F 17/27 (20060101)
G10L 13/08 (20060101)
G10L 13/00 (20060101)

Abstract

In text-to-speech generating arrangements, text is analyzed to determine the language source of words therein by successively selecting letter sequences of each word in the text. At least one signal representative of the probability that the text word corresponds to a particular language source is generated responsive to the selected letter sequences and a language source is selected for converting the text work to a phonetic string responsive to the probability representative signals.

Other References

  • IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. ASSP-24, No. 6, Dec. 1976, "Letter-to-Sound Rules for Automatic Translation of English Text to Phonetics", H. S. Elovitz et al., pp. 446-459
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