A method and system for providing concatenative speech uses a speech synthesis input to populate a triphone-indexed database that is later used for searching and retrieval to create a phoneme string acceptable for a text-to-speech operation. Prior to initiating the "real time" synthesis, a database is...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6505158?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6505158 - Synthesis-based pre-selection of suitable units for concatenative speech
Synthesis-based pre-selection of suitable units for concatenative speech