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5761640 |
Name and address processor
A name and address processor for processing text contained within an existing database for subsequent text-to-speech synthesis. The processor receives as input a listing contained within a textual...
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5752228 |
Speech synthesis apparatus and read out time calculating apparatus to finish reading out text
A speech synthesis apparatus for synthesizing speech to read out a text in place of a reader at a speed corresponding to a set time and the text volume, a medium on which is recorded a computer...
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5751906 |
Method for synthesizing speech from text and for spelling all or portions of the text by analogy
Improved automated synthesis of human audible speech from text is disclosed. Performance enhancement of the underlying text comprehensibility is obtained through prosodic treatment of the...
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5751907 |
Speech synthesizer having an acoustic element database
A speech synthesis method employs an acoustic element database that is established from phonetic sequences occurring in an interval of a speech signal. In establishing the database, trajectories...
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5752232 |
Voice activated device and method for providing access to remotely retrieved data
A voice activated device using speaker independent speech recognition is capable of receiving from a remote location the phonetic spellings needed for speech recognition in the device. The phonetic...
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5749071 |
Adaptive methods for controlling the annunciation rate of synthesized speech
Improved automated synthesis of human audible speech from text is disclosed. Performance enhancement of the underlying text comprehensibility is obtained through prosodic treatment of the...
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5745650 |
Speech synthesis apparatus and method for synthesizing speech from a character series comprising a text and pitch information
A speech synthesis method and apparatus for synthesizing speech from a character series comprising a text and pitch information. The apparatus includes a parameter generator for generating power...
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5740320 |
Text-to-speech synthesis by concatenation using or modifying clustered phoneme waveforms on basis of cluster parameter centroids
In a waveform compilation (waveform concatenation or synthesis-by-rule) type speech synthesis method and speech synthesizer, phoneme waveform segments in natural speech waveforms are clustered, and...
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5737725 |
Method and system for automatically generating new voice files corresponding to new text from a script
A method and system for automatically generating at least one new voice file corresponding to at least one new text from a script incorporating a plurality of known text having corresponding...
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5734794 |
Method and system for voice-activated cell animation
A computer based system utilizing cues extracted from audio speech to select from among a database of stored image cells to produce synthesized animated characters. A database of image cells is...
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5732395 |
Methods for controlling the generation of speech from text representing names and addresses
Improved automated synthesis of human audible speech from text is disclosed. Performance enhancement of the underlying text comprehensibility is obtained through prosodic treatment of the...
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5727120 |
Apparatus for electronically generating a spoken message
An improved apparatus for generating a spoken message is of the type formed by (i) first recording speech and (ii) then utilizing the recording so as to obtain at least one carrier, each carrier...
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5717827 |
Text-to-speech system using vector quantization based speech enconding/decoding
A text-to-speech system includes a memory storing a set of quantization vectors. A first processing module is responsive to the sound segment codes generated in response to text in the sequence to...
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5715370 |
Method and apparatus for extracting text from a structured data file and converting the extracted text to speech
Method and apparatus for extracting text from a structured data file and generating synthesized speech in accordance with the extracted text includes a processor for executing stored process steps,...
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5715368 |
Speech synthesis system and method utilizing phenome information and rhythm imformation
To synthesize speech, which is clear and high in naturalness, in a Japanese-language speech synthesis system by improving not only phoneme information but also rhythm information. In the...
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5704007 |
Utilization of multiple voice sources in a speech synthesizer
Utilization of one or more voice sources in a speech synthesizer to provide improved synthetic speech. Having a speech synthesizer with the capability to select among and between a multiplicity of...
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5696879 |
Method and apparatus for improved voice transmission
A uniquely programmed computer system and computer-implemented method direct a computer system to efficiently transmit voice. The method includes the steps of transforming voice from a user into...
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5682501 |
Speech synthesis system
A speech synthesis unit comprises a text processor which breaks down text into phonemes, a prosodic processor which assigns properties such as length and pitch to the phonemes based on context, and...
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5677730 |
Spot elimination circuit for a cathode ray tube
An improved spot elimination circuit for preventing a spot from occurring on the screen of a cathode ray tube such as a monitor or television receiver at the instant that the deflection circuit is...
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5673362 |
Speech synthesis system in which a plurality of clients and at least one voice synthesizing server are connected to a local area network
The data control unit in the voice synthesizing server of the present invention receives from a client data to be processed to synthesize voice, and determines the type of the received data. If the...
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5668926 |
Method and apparatus for converting text into audible signals using a neural network
Text may be converted to audible signals, such as speech, by first training a neural network 106 using recorded audio messages 204. To begin the training, the recorded audio messages are converted...
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5661291 |
Audio proof of delivery system and method
A portable item tracking unit includes a bar code reader for capturing a bar code related to an item, a microphone for capturing an audio identification from a recipient of an item, and a memory....
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5659663 |
Integrated automatically synchronized speech/melody synthesizer with programmable mixing capability
A synthesizer includes a controller which generates an address signal in response to a trigger code corresponding to a sequence of a synthesis of a plurality of basic speech sections; a memory for...
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5652828 |
Automated voice synthesis employing enhanced prosodic treatment of text, spelling of text and rate of annunciation
Improved automated synthesis of human audible speech from text is disclosed. Performance enhancement of the underlying text comprehensibility is obtained through prosodic treatment of the...
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5651095 |
Speech synthesis using word parser with knowledge base having dictionary of morphemes with binding properties and combining rules to identify input word class
A speech synthesis system includes a phonological converter, a word parser, a syllable parser, temporal and parametric interpreters, a file and a synthesizer. The word parser and syllable parser...
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5642466 |
Intonation adjustment in text-to-speech systems
A software-only real time text-to-speech system includes intonation control which does not introduce discontinuities into output speech stream. The text-to-speech system includes a module for...
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5636325 |
Speech synthesis and analysis of dialects
A set of intonation intervals for a chosen dialect are applied to the intonational contour of a phomene string derived from a single set of stored linguistic units, e.g., phonemes. Sets of...
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5633984 |
Method and apparatus for speech processing
An apparatus and method for processing vocal information includes an extractor for extracting a plurality of spectrum information from parameters for vocal information, a vector quantizer for...
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5633983 |
Systems and methods for performing phonemic synthesis
Systems and methods for performing phonemic synthesis which operate to generate an output data set of acoustic B parameters from a received textual data set wherein the output data set represents...
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5634084 |
Abbreviation and acronym/initialism expansion procedures for a text to speech reader
An improved text-to-speech synthesizer that employs a text to speech converter, a text reader control procedure, a classifier procedure, an abbreviation expansion procedure, and an...
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5615301 |
Automated language translation system
A language translation system receives audio output from a television, a radio, or some other electronic device designed to present a program to a user, so as to identify any speech signal...
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5615300 |
Text-to-speech synthesis with controllable processing time and speech quality
Synthesized speech is generated by a software-implemented system with a programmed central processing unit. Phonetic parameters are generated from a series of phonetic symbols of an input text to...
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5613038 |
Communications system for multiple individually addressed messages
A communications system has a single transmitter and a large number of portable receivers. The transmitter broadcasts a continuous stream of coded text messages, each addressed to a particular user...
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5572625 |
Method for generating audio renderings of digitized works having highly technical content
The present invention provides a method for producing auditory renderings of digitized works and, in particular, digitized documents containing complex mathematical expressions. Documents are first...
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5561736 |
Three dimensional speech synthesis
Method, product and system alters audio data for a synthesized voice so that when it is produced on a speaker system, it appears to emanate from a spatial position. First, the voice is synthesized...
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5555343 |
Text parser for use with a text-to-speech converter
A text parser for a text-to-speech processor accepts a text stream and parses the text stream to detect non-spoken characters and spoken characters. The spoken characters are passed to the...
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5546500 |
Arrangement for increasing the comprehension of speech when translating speech from a first language to a second language
An arrangement for improved speech comprehension in artificial translation of one language to a second language. The arrangement comprises an analysis unit which carries out an analysis of duration...
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5540589 |
Audio interactive tutor
An all-audio, hands-free and eyes-free interactive tutor provides time-efficient and reduced-boredom instruction by varying a course of instruction based on the correct and incorrect responses of...
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5530762 |
Real-time digital audio reverberation system
A software reverberator system produces a sequence of "reverberated" samples from an input digital word sequence where each word in the input sequence comprises a digitized sample of an original...
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5500919 |
Graphics user interface for controlling text-to-speech conversion
A system for controlling how text is fed to a text-to-speech converter. Text is controllably fed from a text buffer to a text-to-speech converter, the control being based on operator commands which...
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5490234 |
Waveform blending technique for text-to-speech system
A concatenator for a first digital frame with a second digital frame, such as the ending and beginning of adjacent diphone strings being concatenated to form speech is based on determining an...
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5475796 |
Pitch pattern generation apparatus
A pitch pattern defining intonation for a text-to-speech system is generated in accordance with a part of speech (e.g., noun, verb, adjective, adverb, etc.) of each word which can be determined...
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5473726 |
Audio and amplitude modulated photo data collection for speech recognition
A speech recognition data collection arrangement in which audio sounds spoken by the user are supplemented with lip and mouth movement information obtained from a combination of a light emitting...
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5463713 |
Synthesis of speech from text
An apparatus for synthesizing speech from text includes a language processing section which determines an accent environment of each mora of the text. In a basic accent pattern table, a basic...
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5396577 |
Speech synthesis apparatus for rapid speed reading
In a speech synthesizing apparatus, importance degree information indicative of a degree of importance with respect to each text portion of input original text data is added to this text portion....
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5386493 |
Apparatus and method for playing back audio at faster or slower rates without pitch distortion
A computer implemented apparatus and method for modifying the playback rate of a previously stored audio or voice data file stored within a computer system without altering the pitch of the audio...
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5384893 |
Method and apparatus for speech synthesis based on prosodic analysis
A system for synthesizing a speech signal from strings of words, which are themselves strings of characters, includes a memory in which predetermined syntax tags are stored in association with...
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5384701 |
Language translation system
A language translation system for translating phrases from a first language into a second language comprises a store holding a collection of phrases in the second language. Phrases input in the...
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5365050 |
Portable data collection terminal with voice prompt and recording
A portable data collection system includes a portable data collection terminal with a voice prompt circuit having a recording capability, and optionally a bar code scanning device, such as a wand....
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5321794 |
Voice synthesizing apparatus and method and apparatus and method used as part of a voice synthesizing apparatus and method
A voice synthesizing apparatus is arranged to synthesize a voice from text data composed of either character codes or a series of symbols by generating a sound source based on a series of...
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