Global Patent Index - EP 1184838 B1

EP 1184838 B1 20050831 - Phonetic transcription for speech synthesis

Title (en)

Phonetic transcription for speech synthesis

Title (de)

Phonetische Übersetzung für die Sprachsynthese

Title (fr)

Transcription phonétique pour la synthèse de parole

Publication

EP 1184838 B1 20050831 (DE)

Application

EP 01113053 A 20010528

Priority

DE 10042942 A 20000831

Abstract (en)

[origin: US2002026313A1] The invention relates to a method, an arrangement and a computer program product for speech synthesis by means of a grapheme/phoneme conversion. In this case, a search is made for subwords of a given word in a database which contains phonetic transcriptions of words. If at least one subword of the given word is found in the database, a phonetic transcription registered in the database is selected for the subword found. In addition to the subword found, the given word has at least one further constituent, which is not registered in the database. This further constituent is phonetically transcribed with the aid of an OOV treatment, and the phonetic transcription of the subword found and the phonetic transcription of the further constituent are combined.

IPC 1-7

G10L 13/08

IPC 8 full level

G10L 13/08 (2013.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G10L 13/08 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (examination)

DAELEMANS W.: "GRAFON: A Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion System for Dutch", PROC. 12TH INT. CONF. ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS COLING-88, 1988, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, pages 133 - 138

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE ES FR GB IT

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 1184838 A2 20020306; EP 1184838 A3 20030205; EP 1184838 B1 20050831; DE 10042942 A1 20020328; DE 10042942 C2 20030508; DE 50107259 D1 20051006; ES 2244523 T3 20051216; US 2002026313 A1 20020228; US 7333932 B2 20080219

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 01113053 A 20010528; DE 10042942 A 20000831; DE 50107259 T 20010528; ES 01113053 T 20010528; US 94273601 A 20010831