Electronic device and method, storage medium for operating an intelligent automated assistant

A technology for automatic assistants and electronic equipment, applied in the field of eliminating ambiguity of homographs, can solve problems such as poor user experience, difficulty in eliminating ambiguity of homographs, and wrong pronunciation of voice output

Active Publication Date: 2019-11-19
APPLE INC
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Traditionally, digital assistants may have difficulty disambiguating homographs, so speech output containing homographs may often be mispronounced
This can lead to poor user experience when interacting with digital assistants

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[0015] The present invention provides a system and process for disambiguating homographs in speech synthesis. In one exemplary process, phonetic input including homophones may be received from a user. Context data associated with the voice input can be received. The voice input may be processed using an automatic voice recognition system to determine a text string corresponding to the voice input. Based on the text string, an actionable intent can be determined using a natural language processor. A dialogue response to the voice input may be generated, where the dialogue response may include homographs. The correct pronunciation of the homograph can be dete...

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The invention discloses disambiguation of homographs in speech synthesis. Systems and processes for disambiguating homographs in speech synthesis are provided. In one exemplary process, voice input containing homographs may be received from a user. The speech input may be processed using an automatic speech recognition system to determine phoneme strings corresponding to homographs pronounced by the user in the speech input. The correct pronunciation of the homograph can be determined based on the phoneme string or at least one of using an n-gram language model of the automatic speech recognition system. A dialogue response to the voice input may be generated, wherein the dialogue response may include homographs. The dialogue response may be output as voice output. The homograph in the dialog response may be pronounced in the voice output according to the correct pronunciation.

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[0001] Cross References to Related Applications [0002] This application claims U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62 / 089,464, filed December 9, 2014, entitled "Disambiguating Heteronyms in Speech Synthesis," and filed December 12, 2014 Priority to U.S. Nonprovisional Patent Application No. 14 / 569,517, entitled "Disambiguating Heteronyms in Speech Synthesis," which is hereby incorporated by reference. technical field [0003] The present invention relates generally to digital assistants, and more particularly to disambiguating heteronyms in speech synthesis. Background technique [0004] Intelligent automated assistants (or digital assistants) can provide beneficial interfaces between human users and electronic devices. Such an assistant may allow a user to interact with a device or system utilizing natural language, spoken and / or textual. For example, a user may provide voice input to a digital assistant associated with an electronic device. A digital assistant can...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): G10L13/08G10L15/22G06F40/00
CPCG10L13/04G10L13/08G10L15/22G10L2015/225
Inventor C·亨顿D·奈克
Owner APPLE INC
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