A method and apparatus for synthesizing a finite set of sentences and numbers using a single program and a speech synthesizer (SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING A FINITE SET OF SENTENCES AND NUMBERS USING ONE PROGRAM)

摘要

Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for synthesizing a finite set of sentences and numbers in one of several languages using an application that is independent of the language being synthesized. The present invention includes a system controller that communicates with a sentence and a word over a communication link. The sentence and word synthesizer may be implemented in a standard implementation of the speech synthesizer by accessing a vocabulary and sentence database containing all of the language dependent information found in the application program contained within the controller /RTI Language-dependent information, such as grammar rules, etc., is encoded in a language-independent format within the database. Therefore, the application program can be recorded in a form independent of the specific language to be synthesized. If you want to synthesize different languages, then only those parts of the containing database, such as rules on language-specific grammar, sentence structure, etc. need to be replaced instead of adding new codes to the application. Thus, a new language can be synthesized by ordering the speech synthesizer to access different databases or by changing the memory containing the database. This simplifies the process of synthesizing speech in multiple languages and reduces the development costs for such devices and the complexity of the controller.