Reactive speech synthesis

• Main Authors: David Braude, Matthew Aylett, Christopher Pidcock, Blaise Potard
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.02.2019
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION

A method of responding to an interruption in a speech synthesis system (e.g. conversational agents, AI therapists, virtual personal assistants). In response to an interruption event (e.g. when a user has tried to interrupt the dialogue), the system takes an input of the reaction type and earliest ti...