Patent Document ID: 20020072908
Application ID: 09818331
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for converting text to concatenated voice by utilizing a digital voice library and a set of playback rules, the digital voice library including a plurality of speech items and a corresponding plurality of voice recordings wherein each speech item corresponds to at least one available voice recording wherein multiple voice recordings that correspond to a single speech item represent various inflections of that single speech item, the method including receiving text data, converting the test data into a sequence of speech items in accordance with the digital voice library, the method further comprising: determining a syllable count for each speech item in the sequence of speech items; determining an impact value for each speech item in the sequence of speech items; determining a desired inflection for each speech item in the sequence of speech items based on the syllable count and the impact value for the particular speech item and further based on the set of playback rules; determining a sequence of voice recordings by determining a voice recording for each speech item based on the desired inflection for the particular speech item and based on the available voice recordings that correspond to the particular speech item; and generating voice data based on the sequence of voice recordings by concatenating adjacent recordings in the sequence of voice recordings.