Patent ID: 6496801
Filing Date: 2002-12-17
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
An apparatus for producing synthesized speech frames having a fixed portion and a variable portion, comprising:a prosody module receptive of a frame having a fixed portion and a variable portion, wherein at least one of said fixed portion and said variable portion comprises a phrase of multiple words, the prosody module including a database of prosodic templates operable to provide prosody information for phrases of multiple words, the prosody module selecting a first prosodic template for said fixed portion and a second prosodic template for said variable portion; an acoustic module receptive of the first prosodic template and the second prosodic template and including a database of acoustic templates operable to provide acoustic information for phrases of multiple words, the acoustic module selecting a first acoustic template for said fixed portion and a second acoustic template for said variable portion; and a frame generator, the frame generator concatenating the prosodic templates for the respective fixed and variable portions and concatenating the respective acoustic templates for the fixed and variable portions, the frame generator combining the concatenated prosodic templates and the concatenated acoustic templates to define the synthesized speech.