LETTER TO SOUND CONVERSION FOR SYNTHESIZED PRONOUNCIATION OF A TEXT SEGMENT

摘要

There is described a method (200) for text to speech synthesis, the method (200) includes receiving (220) a text string and selecting at least one word from the string. Then a step of segmenting (240) the word into a sub-words forming a sub-word sequence with at least one of the sub-words comprising at least two letters. The step of identifying (250) provides for identifying phonemes for the sub-words and step (260) effects concatenating the phonemes into a phoneme sequence. A performing speech synthesis (280) on the phoneme sequence is then conducted.