Method and System for Enhancing a Speech Database

Patent №

US 8,977,552

Granted

2015-03-10

Filed 2014

Owner

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.

+2 more

Lab

AI components

3

ml · nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14288815

A system, method and computer readable medium that enhances a speech database for speech synthesis is disclosed. The method may include labeling audio files in a primary speech database, identifying segments in the labeled audio files that have varying pronunciations based on language differences, identifying replacement segments in a secondary speech database, enhancing the primary speech database by substituting the identified secondary speech database segments for the corresponding identified segments in the primary speech database, and storing the enhanced primary speech database for use in speech synthesis.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechG10L 13/02G10L 13/00G10L 13/06G10L 13/08

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
Evolutionary computation0.12
Vision0.04
Knowledge representation0.02
AI hardware0.02
Planning0.00

Ownership

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.

assignment · 336860154

AT&T CORP.

assignment · 344350656

AT&T PROPERTIES, LLC

namechg · 344350858

Assignors

CONKIE, ALISTAIR D., SYRDAL, ANN K., CONKIE, ALISTAIR D., SERDAL, ANN K.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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