Invention Grant
US08898055B2 Voice quality conversion device and voice quality conversion method for converting voice quality of an input speech using target vocal tract information and received vocal tract information corresponding to the input speech
有权
语音质量转换装置和语音质量转换方法,用于使用对应于输入语音的目标声道信息和接收到的声道信息来转换输入语音的语音质量
- Patent Title: Voice quality conversion device and voice quality conversion method for converting voice quality of an input speech using target vocal tract information and received vocal tract information corresponding to the input speech
- Patent Title (中): 语音质量转换装置和语音质量转换方法,用于使用对应于输入语音的目标声道信息和接收到的声道信息来转换输入语音的语音质量
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Application No.: US12307021Application Date: 2008-05-08
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Publication No.: US08898055B2Publication Date: 2014-11-25
- Inventor: Yoshifumi Hirose , Takahiro Kamai , Yumiko Kato
- Applicant: Yoshifumi Hirose , Takahiro Kamai , Yumiko Kato
- Applicant Address: US CA Torrance
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Torrance
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2007-128555 20070514
- International Application: PCT/JP2008/001160 WO 20080508
- International Announcement: WO2008/142836 WO 20081127
- Main IPC: G10L19/00
- IPC: G10L19/00 ; G10L19/02 ; G10L21/00 ; G10L21/02 ; G10L13/04 ; G10L13/00 ; G10L21/013

Abstract:
A voice quality conversion device including: a target vowel vocal tract information hold unit holding target vowel vocal tract information of each vowel indicating target voice quality; a vowel conversion unit (i) receiving vocal tract information with phoneme boundary information of the speech including information of phonemes and phoneme durations, (ii) approximating a temporal change of vocal tract information of a vowel in the vocal tract information with phoneme boundary information applying a first function, (iii) approximating a temporal change of vocal tract information of the same vowel held in the target vowel vocal tract information hold unit applying a second function, (iv) calculating a third function by combining the first function with the second function, and (v) converting the vocal tract information of the vowel applying the third function; and a synthesis unit synthesizing a speech using the converted information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090281807A1 VOICE QUALITY CONVERSION DEVICE AND VOICE QUALITY CONVERSION METHOD Public/Granted day:2009-11-12
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