Patent Document ID: 9564120
Application ID: 12780402

Base Claim:
1. A method of speech synthesis, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving first and second text inputs, the content of which collectively forms a reply to a user request, in a text-to-speech system, wherein the first text input is obtained from one data source and the second text input is obtained from a different data source; (b) processing the first and second text inputs into respective first and second speech outputs corresponding to stored speech respectively from first and second speakers using a processor of the system; (c) adapting the second speech output of the second speaker to sound like the first speech output of the first speaker; (d) outputting the first speech output of the first speaker; and (e) outputting the adapted second speech output of the second speaker, wherein the first and second speech outputs include different content and are presented sequentially to a user of the text-to-speech system.

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Claim 16:
16. The method of claim 1 , wherein speech is output from multiple different speakers whose voices sound different, and wherein speech from one of the speakers is adapted to sound like speech from another one of the speakers to improve text to speech quality.