Patent ID: 6148285
Filing Date: 2000-11-14
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
A text processor for a text-to-speech synthesizer comprising:a computer including a central processing unit having random access memory and read only memory for holding an operating system program and one or more application programs;a phonetic text database for storing phonetic transcriptions corresponding to phonemes;means for accessing the phonetic database to retrieve phonetic text characters corresponding to a desired word;program means for converting the phonetic text characters into allophonic text characters to generate a string of allophonic text characters corresponding to the desired word;an audio database comprising pre-recorded allophones stored in accordance with the allophonic text representative of each of said allophones;means for extracting from the audio database the allophonic audio signals that correspond to the string of allophonic text in the desired word; andmeans for concatenating the allophonic audio signals together to generate a new audio file corresponding to the desired word.