EP0953970A3 - Procédé et dispositif utilisant des arbres de décision pour générer et juger des prononciations multiples - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif utilisant des arbres de décision pour générer et juger des prononciations multiples Download PDF

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EP0953970A3
EP0953970A3 EP99303390A EP99303390A EP0953970A3 EP 0953970 A3 EP0953970 A3 EP 0953970A3 EP 99303390 A EP99303390 A EP 99303390A EP 99303390 A EP99303390 A EP 99303390A EP 0953970 A3 EP0953970 A3 EP 0953970A3
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Roland Kuhn
Jean-Claude Junqua
Matteo Contolini
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    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L13/00—Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
    • G10L13/08—Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination
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    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; 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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EP99303390A 1998-04-29 1999-04-29 Procédé et dispositif utilisant des arbres de décision pour générer et juger des prononciations multiples Expired - Lifetime EP0953970B1 (fr)

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US69308 1993-05-28
US09/067,764 US6016471A (en) 1998-04-29 1998-04-29 Method and apparatus using decision trees to generate and score multiple pronunciations for a spelled word
US09/069,308 US6230131B1 (en) 1998-04-29 1998-04-29 Method for generating spelling-to-pronunciation decision tree
US67764 1998-04-29
US09/070,300 US6029132A (en) 1998-04-30 1998-04-30 Method for letter-to-sound in text-to-speech synthesis
US70300 1998-04-30

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EP0953970A3 true EP0953970A3 (fr) 2000-01-19
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JP (1) JP3481497B2 (fr)
KR (1) KR100509797B1 (fr)
CN (1) CN1118770C (fr)
AT (1) ATE261171T1 (fr)
DE (1) DE69915162D1 (fr)
TW (1) TW422967B (fr)

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JPH11344990A (ja) 1999-12-14
JP3481497B2 (ja) 2003-12-22
CN1118770C (zh) 2003-08-20
CN1233803A (zh) 1999-11-03
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