Patent Document ID: 8527281
Application ID: 13537995

Base Claim:
1. A speech processor, comprising: a unit-selection device that processes a stream of target phonetic-units to produce a stream of respective selected phonetic-units, the selected phonetic-units being selected on the basis of at least a set of target-cost functions that determine target-costs between each target phonetic-unit and respective groups of sample phonetic-units; and a phonetic editor configured to: i. enable an operator to selectively designate one or more selected phonetic-units in the stream of selected phonetic-units, ii. automatically remove the one or more designated phonetic units from the stream of selected phonetic-units, and iii. prune one or more non-selected phonetic-units each of which relates to the same phonetic-unit group as a first removed selected phonetic unit.

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Claim 7:
7. A speech processor as in claim 1 , wherein the phonetic editor is configured to enable an operator to compare two or more streams of speech with at least one stream of speech generated using one or more editing functions.