Electronic apparatus and method for controlling thereof

By segmenting text sentences and reflecting prosody information, the electronic apparatus achieves natural-sounding dialogue with reduced synthesis time and consistent prosody, addressing the challenges of delayed and disconnected feedback in AI systems.

EP3818518B1Active Publication Date: 2026-06-10SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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Authority / Receiving Office
EP · EP
Patent Type
Patents
Current Assignee / Owner
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
Filing Date
2019-11-07
Publication Date
2026-06-10

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Abstract

An electronic apparatus, based on a text sentence being input, obtains prosody information of the text sentence, segments the text sentence into a plurality of sentence elements, obtains a speech in which prosody information is reflected to each of the plurality of sentence elements in parallel by inputting the plurality of sentence elements and the prosody information of the text sentence to a text to speech (TTS) module, and merges the speech for the plurality of sentence elements that are obtained in parallel to output speech for the text sentence.
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