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US 2006/0224391 A1Published application
Speech synthesis system and method
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsMasatsune Tamura, Gou Hirabayashi, Takehiko Kagoshima
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AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsMasatsune Tamura, Gou Hirabayashi, Takehiko Kagoshima
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A speech synthesis system in a preferred embodiment includes a speech unit storage section, a phonetic environment storage section, a phonetic sequence/prosodic information input section, a plural-speech-unit selection section, a fused-speech-unit sequence generation section, and a fused-speech-unit modification/concatenation section. By fusing a plurality of selected speech units in the fused speech unit sequence generation section, a fused speech unit is generated. In the fused speech unit sequence generation section, the average power information is calculated for a plurality of selected M speech units, N speech units are fused together, and the power information of the fused speech unit is so corrected as to be equalized with the average power information of the M speech units.
A speech synthesis system for generating synthesized speech by segmenting a phonetic sequence derived from an input text by predetermined synthesis units, and by concatenation of representative speech units each of which is extracted from respective one of the synthesis units, the system comprising:
A speech synthesis method for generating a synthesized speech by segmenting a phonetic sequence derived from an input text by predetermined synthesis units, and by concatenating representative speech units each of which is extracted from respective one of the synthesis units, the method comprising the steps of:
A program for use with a computer to implement a speech synthesis method for generating a synthesized speech by segmenting a phonetic sequence derived from an input text by a predetermined synthesis unit, and by concatenation of representative speech units each of which is extracted from respective one of the synthesis units, the program implementing the functions of:
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