Patent Document ID: 8019605
Application ID: 11748256

Base Claim:
1. A method for generating a reduced script comprising: automatically processing, by a speech recognizer, a pre-recorded audio to derive pre-recorded speech assets for a concatenative text-to-speech (TTS) voice; determining, by a reduced script construction engine, unfulfilled speech assets needed for full phonetic coverage of the concatenative TTS voice, the unfulfilled speech assets determined from the pre-recorded speech assets and reference speech assets that are supposed to provide full phonetic coverage of the concatenative TTS voice; and constructing, by the reduced script construction engine, from the unfulfilled speech assets a reduced script that includes a set of phrases, for reading by a voice talent to provide a reduced recording, which when processed results in speech assets that include each of the unfulfilled speech assets.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the concatenative TTS voice is a unit selection synthesis concatenative TTS voice.