Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voice synthesizing device, voice synthesizing method, and computer program product
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Application No.: US15256220Application Date: 2016-09-02
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Publication No.: US10535335B2Publication Date: 2020-01-14
- Inventor: Kouichirou Mori , Yamato Ohtani
- Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba , Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba,Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba,Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
- Priority: JP2015-181038 20150914
- Main IPC: G10L13/047
- IPC: G10L13/047 ; G10L13/033

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a voice synthesizing device includes a first operation receiving unit, a score transforming unit, and a voice synthesizing unit. The first operation receiving unit configured to receive a first operation specifying voice quality of a desired voice based on one or more upper level expressions indicating the voice quality. The score transforming unit configured to transform, based on a score transformation model that transforms a score of the upper level expression into a score of a lower level expression which is less abstract than the upper level expression, the score of the upper level expression corresponding to the first operation into a score of one or more lower level expressions. The voice synthesizing unit configured to generate a synthetic sound corresponding to a certain text based on the score of the lower level expression.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170076714A1 VOICE SYNTHESIZING DEVICE, VOICE SYNTHESIZING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Public/Granted day:2017-03-16
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