Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Streaming encoder, prosody information encoding device, prosody-analyzing device, and device and method for speech synthesizing
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Application No.: US14168756Application Date: 2014-01-30
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Publication No.: US09837084B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Sin-Horng Chen , Yih-Ru Wang , Chen-Yu Chiang , Chiao-Hua Hsieh
- Applicant: National Chiao Tung University
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: NATIONAL CHAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: NATIONAL CHAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
- Priority: TW102104478A 20130205
- Main IPC: G10L19/18
- IPC: G10L19/18 ; G10L19/00 ; G10L13/02 ; G10L13/10

Abstract:
A speech-synthesizing device includes a hierarchical prosodic module, a prosody-analyzing device, and a prosody-synthesizing unit. The hierarchical prosodic module generates at least a first hierarchical prosodic model. The prosody-analyzing device receives a low-level linguistic feature, a high-level linguistic feature and a first prosodic feature, and generates at least a prosodic tag based on the low-level linguistic feature, the high-level linguistic feature, the first prosodic feature and the first hierarchical prosodic model. The prosody-synthesizing unit synthesizes a second prosodic feature based on the hierarchical prosodic module, the low-level linguistic feature and the prosodic tag.
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