A prosody matching template in the form of a tree structure stores indices which point to lookup table and template information prescribing pitch and duration values that are used to add inflection to the output of a text-to-speech synthesizer. The lookup module employs a search algorithm that explores...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6845358?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6845358 - Prosody template matching for text-to-speech systems
Prosody template matching for text-to-speech systems