WO2004070560A3 - Reduced unit database generation based on cost information - Google Patents

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WO2004070560A3
WO2004070560A3 PCT/US2004/002784 US2004002784W WO2004070560A3 WO 2004070560 A3 WO2004070560 A3 WO 2004070560A3 US 2004002784 W US2004002784 W US 2004002784W WO 2004070560 A3 WO2004070560 A3 WO 2004070560A3
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reduced unit
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cost information
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Michael Stuart Phillips
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L13/00—Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
    • G10L13/02—Methods for producing synthetic speech; Speech synthesisers
    • G10L13/04—Details of speech synthesis systems, e.g. synthesiser structure or memory management

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An arrangement is provided for generating a reduced unit database of a desired size to be used in text to speech operations. A reduced unit database with a desired size is generated based on a full unit database. The reduction is carried out with respect to a text database with a plurality of sentences. Units from the full database are pruned to minimize an overall cost associated with using alternative units other than the units in the reduced unit database.
PCT/US2004/002784 2003-01-31 2004-01-30 Reduced unit database generation based on cost information WO2004070560A2 (en)

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