A method and system are disclosed that automatically segment speech to generate a speech inventory. The method includes initializing a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) using seed input data, performing a segmentation of the HMM into speech units to generate phone labels, correcting the segmentation of the speech...http://www.google.de/patents/US8131547?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8131547 - Automatic segmentation in speech synthesis
