1062 results about "Speech output" patented technology

A method is provided for customizing the speaking style of a speech synthesizer. The method includes: receiving input text; determining semantic information for the input text; determining a speaking style for rendering the input text based on the semantic information; and customizing the audible speech output of the speech synthesizer based on the identified speaking style.

An “Animation Synthesizer” uses trainable probabilistic models, such as Hidden Markov Models (HMM), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), etc., to provide speech and text driven body animation synthesis. Probabilistic models are trained using synchronized motion and speech inputs (e.g., live or recorded audio / video feeds) at various speech levels, such as sentences, phrases, words, phonemes, sub-phonemes, etc., depending upon the available data, and the motion type or body part being modeled. The Animation Synthesizer then uses the trainable probabilistic model for selecting animation trajectories for one or more different body parts (e.g., face, head, hands, arms, etc.) based on an arbitrary text and / or speech input. These animation trajectories are then used to synthesize a sequence of animations for digital avatars, cartoon characters, computer generated anthropomorphic persons or creatures, actual motions for physical robots, etc., that are synchronized with a speech output corresponding to the text and / or speech input.

Techniques for providing speech output for speech-enabled applications. A synthesis system receives from a speech-enabled application a text input including a text transcription of a desired speech output. The synthesis system selects one or more audio recordings corresponding to one or more portions of the text input. In one aspect, the synthesis system selects from audio recordings provided by a developer of the speech-enabled application. In another aspect, the synthesis system selects an audio recording of a speaker speaking a plurality of words. The synthesis system forms a speech output including the one or more selected audio recordings and provides the speech output for the speech-enabled application.

The invention discloses a multi-round dialogue intelligent voice interaction system and device. The system comprises a hybrid semantic understanding module, a semantic understanding adaptive module and an automatic dialogue management module. The voice input is converted into a text and input to a hybrid semantic understanding module after being subjected to voice recognition; wherein the hybrid semantic understanding module is used for understanding user intention and extracting corresponding state information, an automatic dialogue management module is used for guiding a dialogue process, outputting dialogue texts and converting the dialogue texts into voice output based on the user intention to realize dialogue, and the semantic understanding self-adaptive module is used for optimized learning of the hybrid semantic understanding module. According to the invention, a plurality of modules such as speech recognition, natural language understanding, natural language generation, speechsynthesis and dialogue management are integrated to form a whole set of multi-round dialogue intelligent speech interaction system which is easy to expand and configure and can be applied to any scene.

The invention is directed to techniques for suppressing the voice of a user of an audio electronic device, such as a mobile phone, from being heard by an unintended listener. In one arrangement, the invention includes an input microphone, an electronics module, and a suppression speaker. The user speaks into the input microphone, and the electronics module generates an antivoice signal from a voice signal received from the input microphone. The suppression speaker outputs an antivoice output that combines with the voice of the user to form a voice suppression zone next to the speaker. The user thus can carry on his or her conversation in private as long as the unintended listener is within the voice suppression zone. Alternately, the user can avoid distracting other users of similar devices nearby, such as in a crowded office environment with many individuals using telephones at the same time. In another arrangement, the invention includes multiple suppression speakers that can be oriented in different directions to provide one or more voice suppression zones.

The invention discloses a voice recognition testing system comprising an audio frequency generation module, a voice output module and an information processing module, wherein the audio frequency generation module is used for generating an audio file from a test text based on testing parameters, the voice output module is used for playing the audio file so as to provide voice input for a voice recognizer to be tested, the information processing module is used for processing voice recognizing results from the voice recognizer so as to obtain a testing report form on the voice recognizer, and the testing report form comprises recognition performance parameters of the voice recognizer under different conditions relevant to the testing parameters.