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Tone contour transformation of speech

A tone and voice technology, applied in the field of tone contour conversion, which can solve problems such as blocking

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-02-28
AVAYA INC
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This means that even between native Mandarin speakers in different regions, there are significant barriers that prevent them from fully understanding each other's spoken language

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[0014] Specific implementation plan

[0015] According to an embodiment of the present invention, the speech can be converted from a tone profile adopted by a speaker according to a specific dialect to another tone profile that the listener can understand. Therefore, the embodiments of the present invention can promote the intelligibility of tonal language between speakers of different dialects of the language.

[0016] Referring now to FIG. 1, there is shown the components of a communication system 100 employed in an embodiment of the present invention. In particular, a communication system with many communication or computing devices 104 can be connected to other communication systems through the communication network 108. In addition, the communication system 100 may include or be associated with one or more communication servers 112 and / or switches 116.

[0017] For example, the communication or computing device 104 may include a traditional wired or wireless telephone, Intern...

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Tonal transformation of speech is provided. A tone applicable to a syllable of received speech is determined. A tonal contour applicable to said tone for a dialect of a listener is determined, and the syllable of received speech is altered to have said determined tonal contour. The altered speech may then be delivered to the listener.

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Technical field [0001] The invention relates to the conversion of tonal contours of speech. Background technique [0002] There are about 1,500 dialects recorded in spoken Chinese. Chinese is a tonal language. The main obstacle to understanding the different dialects of Chinese is the difference in tonal contours in the pronunciation of words. In particular, in tonal languages, each spoken syllable requires a special pitch of the sound in order to be considered intelligible and correct. For example, Mandarin has 4 tones, plus 1 "neutral" tones. Cantonese has more tones. These tones are described as "high, level", "high, rising", "low, dipping" and "high, falling", and everyone Known tones classification: Ping, Shang, Qu and Ru. In addition, each tone is divided into higher and lower tones, called Yin and Yang, respectively. For example, Ping is divided into Yinping (YinPing) and Yangping (YangPing) tones. [0003] If you mispronounce or misunderstand the tones, you can't understa...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G10L15/00G10L15/08G10L15/28G10L25/90
CPCG10L2021/0135G10L21/013G10L13/033
Inventor 科林·巴拉尔科维·尚克里斯多夫·R·詹特尔尼尔·海佩沃斯安德鲁·W·郎
Owner AVAYA INC
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