Patent Document ID: 7890330
Application ID: 11647825

Base Claim:
1. A method for recording verbal expressions of a person implemented in a concatenative speech synthesis system, the method comprising the following steps of: designing a system with syllable-in-context constructs where all syllables of a language are represented, and if a syllable is bounded by vowel on either side, a phonetic context of the vowel is encoded; creating a database of text phrases in which each text phrase is represented as a sequence of syllable-in-context constructs; using a proprietary method to sort all of the text phrases based on numbers of new syllable-in-context constructs that each of the text phrases contains; displaying selected phrases one at a time through a proprietary speech recording software program for a voice talent in order to produce speech data of the selected phrases; and recording the verbal expression one text phrase at a time while checking a speech signal to be within a predetermined normal range so that it is not clipped or distorted at either side; wherein the syllable includes a regular syllable having exactly one vowel preceded and/or followed by any number of consonants, and a super-syllable having two or more syllables with a vowel hiatus across a syllable boundary.

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Claim 2:
2. The method for recording verbal expressions of claim 1 , wherein the verbal expression describes at least one street name and one point of interest.