Patent Document ID: 9472182
Application ID: 14190875

Base Claim:
1. A method allowing computer-generated speech to be rendered with a multi-voice font that is different than source voice fonts used to generate the multi-voice font, the method comprising the acts of: loading the source voice fonts; assigning weights to characteristics of each source voice font; obtaining text to be rendered as the computer-generated speech; predicting characteristic values for the text for each source voice font using at least one characteristic prediction model associated with each source voice font; merging the predicted characteristic values with the corresponding weights to produce interpolated characteristic values; and rendering the text as computer-generated speech having the interpolated characteristic values.

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Claim 18:
18. The method of claim 1 wherein the act of assigning weights to characteristics of each source voice font further comprises the act of proportioning the weights for each characteristic such that the sum of the weights for each characteristic is substantially equal to one.