A system and method for improving the response time of text-to-speech synthesis utilizes “triphone contexts” (i.e., triplets comprising a central phoneme and its immediate context) as the basic unit, instead of performing phoneme-by-phoneme synthesis. The method comprises a method of generating a...http://www.google.fr/patents/US7124083?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US7124083 - Method and system for preselection of suitable units for concatenative speech
Method and system for preselection of suitable units for concatenative speech