Corey M Miller

US Patent:

59307544, Jul 27, 1999

Filed:

Jun 13, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/874900

Inventors:

Orhan Karaali - Rolling Meadows IL
Corey Andrew Miller - Chicago IL

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

G10L 506

US Classification:

704259

Abstract:

A method (2000), device (2200) and article of manufacture (2300) provide, in response to orthographic information, efficient generation of a phonetic representation. The method provides for, in response to orthographic information, efficient generation of a phonetic representation, using the steps of: inputting an orthography of a word and a predetermined set of input letter features; utilizing a neural network that has been trained using automatic letter phone alignment and predetermined letter features to provide a neural network hypothesis of a word pronunciation.

US Patent:

59307560, Jul 27, 1999

Filed:

Jun 23, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/880604

Inventors:

Andrew William Mackie - Schaumburg IL
Corey Andrew Miller - Chicago IL
Orhan Karaali - Rolling Meadows IL

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

G06F 1727

US Classification:

704260

Abstract:

A method (400, 900, 1000, 1100), device (1205, 1306) and system (1207, 1308) provide memory-efficient encoding of the random-access lexicon for a text-to-speech synthesis system. The method generates word pronunciations based on efficient retrieval of stored pronunciation information and disambiguation information for an input word, by dividing the input word into a stem and a maximal suffix having a maximal suffix code and then generating at least one word pronunciation based on the stem and the maximal suffix.

US Patent:

61345288, Oct 17, 2000

Filed:

Jun 13, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/874834

Inventors:

Corey Andrew Miller - Chicago IL
Orhan Karaali - Rolling Meadows IL
Noel Massey - Hoffman Estates IL

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

International Classification:

G10L 1300
G10L 1306

US Classification:

704258

Abstract:

A method (2000), device (2200) and article of manufacture (2300) provide, in response to lexical pronunciation information, efficient generation of postlexical pronunciation information. A method is presented for providing, in response to a lexical pronunciation, efficient generation of a postlexical pronunciation, including the steps of: determining lexical phones, lexical features, and boundary information for a predetermined portion of text; and utilizing a pretrained neural network that was pretrained using lexical phones, postlexical phones, lexical features, and boundary information to generate a neural network hypothesis for a postlexical pronunciation of the predetermined portion of text.