Global Patent Index - EP 0919052 A1

EP 0919052 A1 19990602 - A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR SPEECH-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION

Title (en)

A METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR SPEECH-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION

Title (de)

VERFAHREN UND SYSTEM ZUR SPRACHE-IN-SPRACHE-UMSETZUNG

Title (fr)

PROCEDE ET SYSTEME DE CONVERSION DE SIGNAUX VOCAUX EN SIGNAUX VOCAUX

Publication

EP 0919052 A1 19990602 (EN)

Application

EP 97919840 A 19970408

Priority

  • SE 9700583 W 19970408
  • SE 9601811 A 19960513

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO9743756A1] The invention provides a speech-to-speech conversion system and method wherein prosody information is extracted from speech, applied to the input of the system, or handled by the method; the prosody information is in the form of the fundamental tone curve of the input speech; the fundamental tone curve is used to obtain dialectal and sentence accent information for the input speech; the sentence accent information is used in the interpretation of the speech inputs, the result of the interpretation being used to obtain speech information data form a database which is used in the formulation of voice responses to the speech inputs; and the dialectal information is used to ensure that the voice responses to the speech inputs have a dialect to match that of respective speech inputs.

IPC 1-7

G10L 5/04; G06F 3/16

IPC 8 full level

G10L 13/02 (2006.01); G10L 13/033 (2013.01); G10L 13/08 (2006.01); G10L 13/10 (2013.01); G10L 11/04 (2006.01); G10L 13/04 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2006.01); G10L 25/90 (2013.01)

CPC (source: EP)

G10L 13/033 (2013.01); G10L 13/10 (2013.01); G10L 13/04 (2013.01); G10L 25/90 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 9743756A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

CH DE DK FI FR GB LI NL

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 9743756 A1 19971120; DE 69723449 D1 20030814; DE 69723449 T2 20040422; DK 0919052 T3 20031103; EP 0919052 A1 19990602; EP 0919052 B1 20030709; NO 318557 B1 20050411; NO 985179 D0 19981106; NO 985179 L 19981111; SE 506003 C2 19971103; SE 9601811 D0 19960513; SE 9601811 L 19971103

DOCDB simple family (application)

SE 9700583 W 19970408; DE 69723449 T 19970408; DK 97919840 T 19970408; EP 97919840 A 19970408; NO 985179 A 19981106; SE 9601811 A 19960513