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 8:
8. A speech processor as in claim 1 , wherein the unit-selection device is enabled to select a new selected phonetic-unit to replace at least one removed phonetic-unit.