Patent ID: 9484016
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G10L

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a computer readable program for prosody prediction, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the steps of: extracting features from runtime data using a parametric model; comparing the features from runtime data with features from training data using an exemplar-based model to predict prosody of the runtime data, the features from the training data being paired with exemplars from the training data; and synthesizing speech, by a speech synthesizer, using the predicted prosody, wherein the parametric model includes a plurality of layers, and the features include deep layer features that, in turn, include features after data has been transformed up to a layer of the parametric model before an output layer, and wherein a hybrid model including the parametric model and the exemplar-based model is built for each genre of interest.