Patent ID: 7047194
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A method for generating synthesized acoustical data by concatenating audio segments of sounds to reproduce a sequence of concatenated sounds/phones wherein each sound/phone comprises three bands including an initial co-articulation band, a solo articulation band and a final co-articulation band, and each segment comprises one or more bands of a sound/phone, said method comprising: generating an inventory of audio segments comprising a plurality of audio segments comprising bands of one or more sounds/phones; establishing an earlier audio segment with at least a portion of one band of a sound/phone selected for including an instance of concatenation; establishing a later audio segment with the rest of the portions of the bands of the selected sound/phone wherein at least one of the earlier or later audio segments comprises bands of at least two adjacent sound/phones, and wherein the solo articulation band of the selected sound/phone is at the trailing end of the earlier segment or at the leading end of the later segment and at least part of one of the co-articulation bands of the selected sound/phone is adjacent to the solo articulation band; and concatenating the two audio segments, whereby the concatenated audio segments comprise at least three bands of two adjacent sounds/phones.