Multilingual prosody generation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9195656-B2
Application number	US-201314143627-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2013
Priority date	Dec 30, 2013
Publication date	Nov 24, 2015
Grant date	Nov 24, 2015

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for multilingual prosody generation. In some implementations, data indicating a set of linguistic features corresponding to a text is obtained. Data indicating the linguistic features and data indicating the language of the text are provided as input to a neural network that has been trained to provide output indicating prosody information for multiple languages. The neural network can be a neural network having been trained using speech in multiple languages. Output indicating prosody information for the linguistic features is received from the neural network. Audio data representing the text is generated using the output of the neural network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising:
obtaining data indicating a set of linguistic features corresponding to a text;
providing (i) data indicating the linguistic features and (ii) data indicating the language of the text as input to a neural network that has been trained to provide output indicating prosody information for multiple languages, the neural network having been trained using speech in multiple languages;
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Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Fructuoso Javier Gonzalvo
• Senior Andrew W
• Chun Byungha

Classifications

• G10L13/10 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10L25/30

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10L13/086

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F40/58

  Physics · mapped topic

• G10L13/07

  Physics · mapped topic