Global Patent Index - EP 1668629 A1

EP 1668629 A1 20060614 - LETTER-TO-SOUND CONVERSION FOR SYNTHESIZED PRONUNCIATION OF A TEXT SEGMENT

Title (en)

LETTER-TO-SOUND CONVERSION FOR SYNTHESIZED PRONUNCIATION OF A TEXT SEGMENT

Title (de)

UMSETZUNG VON BUCHSTABEN IN KLANG FÜR DIE SYNTHETISIERTE AUSSPRACHE EINES TEXTSEGMENTS

Title (fr)

CONVERSION LETTRE-SON POUR PRONONCIATION SYNTHETISEE D'UN SEGMENT DE TEXTE

Publication

EP 1668629 A1 20060614 (EN)

Application

EP 04784356 A 20040917

Priority

  • US 2004030468 W 20040917
  • CN 03132709 A 20030929

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2005034083A1] There is described a method (200) for text to speech synthesis, the method (200) includes receiving (220) a text string and selecting at least one word from the string. Then a step of segmenting (240) the word into a sub-words forming a sub-word sequence with at least one of the sub-words comprising at least two letters. The step of identifying (250) provides for identifying phonemes for the sub-words and step (260) effects concatenating the phonemes into a phoneme sequence. A performing speech synthesis (280) on the phoneme sequence is then conducted.

IPC 1-7

G10L 13/08

IPC 8 full level

G10L 13/08 (2013.01)

CPC (source: EP KR)

G10L 13/06 (2013.01 - KR); G10L 13/08 (2013.01 - EP KR)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB IT

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2005034083 A1 20050414; CN 1308908 C 20070404; CN 1604184 A 20050406; DE 602004019949 D1 20090423; EP 1668629 A1 20060614; EP 1668629 A4 20070110; EP 1668629 B1 20090311; KR 100769032 B1 20071022; KR 20060056404 A 20060524; RU 2006114705 A 20071110; RU 2320026 C2 20080320

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 2004030468 W 20040917; CN 03132709 A 20030929; DE 602004019949 T 20040917; EP 04784356 A 20040917; KR 20067006095 A 20060329; RU 2006114705 A 20040917