Patent ID: 7136802

Claim:
A method, comprising: in response to a text sentence comprising a plurality of words, each having a part of speech (POS) tag, generating a POS sequence based on the POS tag of each of the plurality of words; detecting a prosodic phrase break from an output phrase break through a recurrent neural network (RNN), based on the POS sequence, through iterative operations including retrieving a particular POS tag from the tag sequence, inputting a first phrase break to a first input of the RNN network, inputting a first POS tag from the tag sequence to a second input of the RNN network, wherein the first POS tag is associated with the first phrase break, inputting a second phrase break to a third input of the RNN network, inputting a second POS tag from the tag sequence to a fourth input of the RNN network, wherein the second POS tag is associated with the second phrase break, and wherein the second POS tag is next to the first POS tag in the tag sequence, and inputting the particular POS tag to a fifth input of the RNN network, generating the output phrase break associated with the particular POS tag, from the RNN network, retrieving a next POS tag from the tag sequence, and repeating the above iterative operations until there are no more POS tags to be processed in the tag sequence; and generating a prosodic phrases boundary based on the prosodic phrase break.