INTELLIGENT TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS

摘要

A method and an apparatus of synthesizing speech from a piece of input text (104). In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of retrieving the input text (104) entered into a computing system, and transforming the input text (104) based on the semantics (152) of at least one word of the input text (104) to generate a formatted text (108) for speech synthesis. In another embodiment, the transformation also depends on at least one characteristic of the person listening to the speech output (118). In yet another embodiment, the transformation further depends on at least one characteristic of the hardware employed by the user to listen to the speech output (118). The transformed text can be further modified to fit a text-to-speech engine to generate the speech output (118).