摘要 |
Method and apparatus of synthesizing speech from a plurality of portion of text data, each portion having at least one associated attribute. The invention is achieved by determining (25, 35, 45) a value of the attribute for each of the portions of text data, selecting (27, 37, 47) a voice from a plurality of candidate voices on the basis of each of said determined attribute values, and converting (29, 39, 49) each portion of text data into synthesized speech using said respective selected voice.
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