METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING A LETTER TO A SOUND FOR SYNTHESIZED PRONUNCIATION OF A TEXT SEGMENT

FIELD: technology for synthesizing speech from text. ^ SUBSTANCE: in accordance to the method, the word, extracted from received text string, is divided onto sub-words, which constitute a series of sub-words, wherein at least one sub-word contains at least two letters, and each one of the possible s...

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Main Authors KHUAN TSZJAN'HN, CHEHN' GUJ-LIN'
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Russian
Published 20.03.2008
Subjects
ACOUSTICS
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
PHYSICS
SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS
SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING
SPEECH RECOGNITION
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Summary:FIELD: technology for synthesizing speech from text. ^ SUBSTANCE: in accordance to the method, the word, extracted from received text string, is divided onto sub-words, which constitute a series of sub-words, wherein at least one sub-word contains at least two letters, and each one of the possible sub-words has predetermined weight, where to create a series of sub-words, sub-words are selected with maximal combined weights; phonemes are determined for sub-words by means of table of phonemic identifiers; phonemes are combined in a series of phonemes; and speech is synthesized on basis of a series of phonemes. ^ EFFECT: accenting of consonants depending on other neighboring letters and position in text fragment being synthesized. ^ 4 cl, 6 dwg
Bibliography:Application Number: RU20060114705