Patents by Inventor Horst Juergen Schroeter

Horst Juergen Schroeter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAINING A TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM USING A DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SPEECH DATABASE
    Publication number: 20080065383
    Abstract: A system, method and computer readable medium that trains a text-to-speech synthesis system for use in speech synthesis is disclosed. The method may include recording audio files of one or more live voices speaking language used in a specific domain, the audio files being recorded using various prosodies, storing the recorded audio files in a speech database; and training a text-to-speech synthesis system using the speech database, wherein the text-to-speech synthesis system selects audio selects audio segments having a prosody based on at least one dialog state and one speech act.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: AT&T Corp.
    Inventor: Horst Juergen SCHROETER