SBIR/STTR Research Award
APE Segmentation for Variable Speed Speech Synthesis
Award amount
$749,876Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- PERCEPTRAL LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2010-03-03
- Contract end date
- 2012-03-02
- UEI
- LJNKK3QM3N27
- Solicitation number
- 2008.2
- Topic code
- N08-149
Research abstract
This Phase II effort will develop a prototype of Perceptral''s solution to meeting the needs of variable speed speech synthesis. Our approach involves a new method of sound segmentation that provides greater control of speech timing, while maintaining a high degree of intelligibility, as well as greater compression. Current systems fail to provide these adequately, because of the methods by which units are selected, and the means by which these units are manipulated in synthesis. The final deliverable of this project will be a software solution capable of providing the end-user variable control of speech rate in synthesis.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- User Control for Content Reconstruction in Speech Compression
- APE Segmentation for Variable Speed Speech Synthesis
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
3 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2008–2010). Reported award amounts total $969,857. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense