Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Speech synthesizer, and speech synthesis method and computer program product utilizing multiple-acoustic feature parameters selection
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Application No.: US15434440Application Date: 2017-02-16
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Publication No.: US10529314B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Masatsune Tamura , Masahiro Morita
- Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
- Main IPC: G10L13/027
- IPC: G10L13/027 ; G10L13/047 ; G10L13/08 ; G10L13/07 ; G10L13/10 ; G06F17/27

Abstract:
A speech synthesizer includes a statistical-model sequence generator, a multiple-acoustic feature parameter sequence generator, and a waveform generator. The statistical-model sequence generator generates, based on context information corresponding to an input text, a statistical model sequence that comprises a first sequence of a statistical model comprising a plurality of states. The multiple-acoustic feature parameter sequence generator, for each speech section corresponding to each state of the statistical model sequence, selects a first plurality of acoustic feature parameters from a first set of acoustic feature parameters extracted from a first speech waveform stored in a speech database and generates a multiple-acoustic feature parameter sequence that comprises a sequence of the first plurality of acoustic feature parameters. The waveform generator generates a distribution sequence based on the multiple-acoustic feature parameter sequence and generates a second speech waveform based on a second set of acoustic feature parameters generated based on the distribution sequence.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170162186A1 SPEECH SYNTHESIZER, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Public/Granted day:2017-06-08
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