Patent ID: 8340967

Claim:
A method for generation of an expressive speech library, comprising: recording a first speaker reading a text by a recording device including a non-transitory computer readable medium, wherein the recorded reading is saved in the non-transitory computer readable medium; analyzing the recorded reading based on a set of predefined musical vectors by identifying at least one physical range of at least one musical parameter used by the first speaker when reading the text; dividing the at least one identified physical range into a plurality of sub ranges; and associating each sub range of the plurality of sub ranges with a different value of at least one of the musical vectors of the set of predefined musical vectors; determining based on the analysis whether at least one segment of text corresponding to at least a portion of the recorded text is to be reread by the first speaker; providing an indication to the first speaker to reread each of the at least one segment of the text; recording the first speaker reading each of the at least one segment of text; and including in the expressive speech library at least a recording of the first speaker reading each of the at least one segment of text.