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7058889 |
Synchronizing text/visual information with audio playback
A method of synchronizing visual information with audio playback includes the steps of selecting a desired audio file from a list stored in memory associated with a display device, sending a signal...
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7047194 |
Method and device for co-articulated concatenation of audio segments
The invention provides a method, apparatus, and a computer program stored on a data carrier that generates synthesized acoustical data by concatenating audio segments of sounds to reproduce a...
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7047195 |
Speech translation device and computer readable medium
A translation device which has both advantages of a table look-up translation device and advantages of a machine translation device by leading the user's utterance through a sentence template...
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7043432 |
Method and system for text-to-speech caching
In a text-to-speech system, a method of converting text-to-speech can include receiving a text input and comparing the received text input to at least one entry in a text-to-speech cache memory....
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7043420 |
Trainable dynamic phrase reordering for natural language generation in conversational systems
A system and method to facilitate natural language generation in a human-to-machine conversational system that produces written or spoken output. In one aspect, a user provides a scoring function...
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7039588 |
Synthesis unit selection apparatus and method, and storage medium
Input text data undergoes language analysis to generate prosody, and a speech database is searched for a synthesis unit on the basis of the prosody. A modification distortion of the found synthesis...
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7035794 |
Compressing and using a concatenative speech database in text-to-speech systems
A method and apparatus are provided for compressing and using a concatenative speech database in TTS systems to improve the quality of speech output generated by handheld TTS systems by allowing...
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7031924 |
Voice synthesizing apparatus, voice synthesizing system, voice synthesizing method and storage medium
There are provided a voice outputting apparatus, a voice outputting system, a voice outputting method and a storage medium which, when the synthetic voices of a plurality of text data are to be...
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7024362 |
Objective measure for estimating mean opinion score of synthesized speech
A method for estimating mean opinion score or naturalness of synthesized speech is provided. The method includes using an objective measure that has components derived directly from textual...
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7019749 |
Conversational interface agent
A video rewrite technique for rendering a talking head or agent completely simulates a conversation by including a waiting or listening state. Smooth transitions are provided to and from a talking...
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7013282 |
System and method for text-to-speech processing in a portable device
A system and method for providing high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) output in a low-complexity device is disclosed. TTS output is generated by a TTS system that resides on a high-complexity device....
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7010489 |
Method for guiding text-to-speech output timing using speech recognition markers
A method for guiding text-to-speech output timing with speech recognition markers can include the following steps. First, tokens can be retrieved in a TTS system. The tokens can include words,...
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7006098 |
Method and apparatus for creating personal autonomous avatars
A method and apparatus for facilitating communication about a document between two users creates autonomous, animated computer characters, or avatars, which are then attached to the document under...
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6999932 |
Language independent voice-based search system
A language independent, voice based user interface method includes receiving voice input data spoken by a user, identifying a language spoken by the user from the voice input data, converting the...
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6999918 |
Method and apparatus to facilitate correlating symbols to sounds
A dictionary is comprised of a dendroid hierarchy of branches and nodes, wherein each node represents no more than one symbol (which symbol is to be converted to a corresponding sound) and wherein...
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6996529 |
Speech synthesis with prosodic phrase boundary information
Text-to-speech conversion uses pattern-matching to predict the position of phrase boundaries in spoken output. Text input to the is analyzed to identify groups of words (known as “chunks”)...
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6996530 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, recording medium, and program
Two types of voice can be set for reading text data of an electronic mail. A user selects a detailed setting button associated with one of the voice types to display a voice setting window, in...
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6996533 |
Information processing system
An information processing system receives notice information, having a predetermine format, transmitted via a network. The information processing system includes an extracting unit for analyzing...
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6990449 |
Method of training a digital voice library to associate syllable speech items with literal text syllables
A method for converting text to concatenated voice by utilizing a digital voice library and a set of playback rules is provided. The digital voice library includes a plurality of speech items...
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6990451 |
Method and apparatus for recording prosody for fully concatenated speech
A method of making a digital voice library utilized for converting text to concatenated voice in accordance with a set of playback rules includes generating a complex tone that reflects a...
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6988068 |
Compensating for ambient noise levels in text-to-speech applications
A method of automatically adjusting volume of speech generated by a text-to-speech application can include measuring an ambient noise level of an audio environment. A target volume for speech...
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6988069 |
Reduced unit database generation based on cost information
An arrangement is provided for generating a reduced unit database of a desired size to be used in text to speech operations. A reduced unit database with a desired size is generated based on a full...
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6985864 |
Electronic document processing apparatus and method for forming summary text and speech read-out
On receipt of a tagged file, as a tagged document, at step S 1 , a document processing apparatus at step S 2 derives the attribute information for read-out from tags of the tagged file and embeds...
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6983250 |
Method and system for enabling a user to obtain information from a text-based web site in audio form
A method and system for automatic conversion of text to speech including automatically analyzing a text to define at least one vocabulary domain and carrying out a text-to-speech conversion by...
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6983249 |
Systems and methods for voice synthesis
Systems and methods for voice synthesis are disclosed for providing a synthesized voice message that is consonant with the taste of a customer and a program storage device readable by machine to...
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6978239 |
Method and apparatus for speech synthesis without prosody modification
A speech synthesizer is provided that concatenates stored samples of speech units without modifying the prosody of the samples. The present invention is able to achieve a high level of naturalness...
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6978006 |
Resource management utilizing quantified resource attributes
A system and method are disclosed which quantify one or more attributes of a finite number of resources for effective management of such resources. Quantifiable attributes possessed by a resource...
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6975988 |
Electronic mail method and system using associated audio and visual techniques
A multi-mail system and method is disclosed in which a sender may convey and a recipient can realize emotional aspects associated with substantive content of a multi-mail message by receiving a...
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6975986 |
Voice spelling in an audio-only interface
A voice spelling method. A voice spelling method can include the steps of: in an audio-only interface, receiving a plurality of audio signals representative of spoken characters, the plurality of...
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6975989 |
Text to speech synthesizer with facial character reading assignment unit
There is provided a text analyzer for analyzing Japanese text data, a facial character reading assignment unit for assigning facial character readings to character string portions of text analysis...
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6975985 |
Method and system for the automatic amendment of speech recognition vocabularies
The present invention provides a method and system to improve speech recognition using an existing audio realization of a spoken text and a true textual representation of the spoken text. The audio...
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6965862 |
Reading machine
A portable reading machine has a scanner for scanning an image comprising text. The scanner has a scanning area occupying a maximum width and an active width defined by a scanning width limiting...
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6963839 |
System and method of controlling sound in a multi-media communication application
A method for customizing a voice in a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message comprises a text message from the sender to be delivered by an...
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6963841 |
Speech training method with alternative proper pronunciation database
In accordance with a present invention speech training system is disclosed. It uses a microphone to receive audible sounds input by a user into a first computing device having a program with a...
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6964014 |
Method and system for localizing Web pages
A computer implemented method for localizing Web pages is disclosed. The method includes reading a computer file containing HTML tags and scripts and identifying character strings located between...
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6963838 |
Adaptive hosted text to speech processing
Techniques are provided performing text-to-speech translation in situations in which the input texts may contain unanticipated content. According to one aspect of the invention, text-to-speech...
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6961410 |
Method for customizing information for interacting with a voice mail system
A method and apparatus for personalizing voice messages to be used by a voice mail system in interacting with a user based on information provided by the user in an interactive communication...
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6959279 |
Text-to-speech conversion system on an integrated circuit
A text-to-speech conversion system that includes a first module to convert text into words, a second module to convert words into phonemes, a third module to map phonemes to sound units, and a...
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6950798 |
Employing speech models in concatenative speech synthesis
A text-to-speech synthesizer employs database that includes units. For each unit there is a collection of unit selection parameters and a plurality of frames. Each frame has a set of model...
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6944591 |
Audio support system for controlling an e-mail system in a remote computer
This invention relates to an apparatus, program product and a method for controlling an email system in a remote computer using a remote control device having an audio support, speech-to-text and...
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6941509 |
Editing HTML DOM elements in web browsers with non-visual capabilities
A method, program and apparatus for rendering an image area in an electronic document are provided by means of a web browser having non-visual capabilities. The invention comprises parsing a web...
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6941273 |
Telephony-data application interface apparatus and method for multi-modal access to data applications
A voice-enabled system for online shopping provides a voice and telephony interface, as well a text and graphic interface, for shopping over the Internet using a browser or a telephone. The system...
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6934680 |
Method for generating a statistic for phone lengths and method for determining the length of individual phones for speech synthesis
A statistic for phone lengths is generated by determining the length of individual phones for speech synthesis. A primary statistic is based on primary clusters (for example triphones), and a...
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6925437 |
Electronic mail device and system
An amount of character setting information inserted in a mail text is minimized. A character is selected from a list and a given text letter string of the inputted information is inserted in the...
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6925438 |
Method and apparatus for providing an animated display with translated speech
A first language to second language translator ( 11 ) converts text comprising a message in a first language into text representing that message in a second language. A text to speech transducer (...
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6915241 |
Method for segmentation and identification of nonstationary time series
A method, implemented on a computer having a fixed amount of memory and CPU resources, for analyzing a sequence of data units derived from a dynamic system to which new data units may be added by...
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6907455 |
Apparatus and methods for providing an event driven notification over a network to a telephony device
The invention is directed to techniques for notifying a client device of the occurrence of an event using a web application activated based on an application-state data record. A persistent process...
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6882975 |
Method, storage medium, apparatus, server and program for providing an electronic chat
A method for expressing a feeling and so on included in a speech of a player, more plainly, when the player has a chat through a network. The method for providing an electronic chat between a first...
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6879951 |
Chinese word segmentation apparatus
A Chinese word segmentation apparatus relates to processing of a Chinese sentence input to a computer. A character-to-phonetic converter of the segmentation apparatus initially converts a Chinese...
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6879957 |
Method for producing a speech rendition of text from diphone sounds
A text-to-speech system utilizes a method for producing a speech rendition of text based on dividing some or all words of a sentence into component diphones. A phonetic dictionary is aligned so...
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