Patent ID: 6052664
Filing Date: 2000-04-18
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
A method for generating the phonetico-prosodic parameters of a predetermined message starting from a source message, said predetermined message being formed by at least one carrier, each carrier comprising at least one fixed part and at least one open slot, an argument having been inserted in each open slot, said method comprising:a) applying a prosody transplantation technique to said source message in order to obtain a sequence of phonetico-prosodic parameters for each carrier;b) identifying in each sequence sections of phonetico-prosodic parameters corresponding to said arguments;c) substituting each of said sections by open slot data comprising at least position information indicating the position of the open slots;d) assigning to each thus obtained sequence an identifier;e) storing the thus obtained sequences with their identifiers in a memory for subsequent use in generation of speech.