Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voice synthesis apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 语音合成装置
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Application No.: US13480401Application Date: 2012-05-24
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Publication No.: US08996378B2Publication Date: 2015-03-31
- Inventor: Jordi Bonada , Merlijn Blaauw , Makoto Tachibana
- Applicant: Jordi Bonada , Merlijn Blaauw , Makoto Tachibana
- Applicant Address: JP Hamamatsu-shi
- Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
- Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hamamatsu-shi
- Agency: Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Priority: JP2011-120815 20110530; JP2012-110359 20120514
- Main IPC: G10L13/00
- IPC: G10L13/00 ; G10L13/06 ; G10L25/93

Abstract:
In a voice synthesis apparatus, a phoneme piece interpolator acquires first phoneme piece data corresponding to a first value of sound characteristic, and second phoneme piece data corresponding to a second value of the sound characteristic. The first and second phoneme piece data indicate a spectrum of each frame of a phoneme piece. The phoneme piece interpolator interpolates between each frame of the first phoneme piece data and each frame of the second phoneme piece data so as to create phoneme piece data of the phoneme piece corresponding to a target value of the sound characteristic which is different from either of the first and second values of the sound characteristic. A voice synthesizer generates a voice signal having the target value of the sound characteristic based on the created phoneme piece data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120310650A1 VOICE SYNTHESIS APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-12-06
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