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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110282668 | SPEECH ADAPTATION IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS A method of and system for speech synthesis. First and second text inputs are received in a text-to-speech system, and processed into respective first and second speech outputs corresponding to stored speech respectively from first and second speakers using a processor ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110112840 | SYNTHETIC SOUND GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS A synthetic sound generation method for generating a synthetic sound for making a listener recall an image of an actual sound signal which is a sound signal other than a speech signal and of which the listener knows what sound the actual sound signal is, by hearing the ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110054903 | RICH CONTEXT MODELING FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH ENGINES Embodiments of rich text modeling for speech synthesis are disclosed. In operation, a text-to-speech engine refines a plurality of rich context models based on decision tree-tied Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) to produce a plurality of refined rich context models. The text... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110046957 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING FREQUENCY SPLICING Techniques are disclosed for frequency splicing in which speech segments used in the creation of a final speech waveform are constructed, at least in part, by combining (e.g., summing) a small number (e.g., two) of component speech segments that overlap substantially, o... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20100312562 | HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL BASED TEXT TO SPEECH SYSTEMS EMPLOYING ROPE-JUMPING ALGORITHM A rope-jumping algorithm is employed in a Hidden Markov Model based text to speech system to determine start and end models and to modify the start and end models by setting small co-variances. Disordered acoustic parameters due to violation of parameter constraints are... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100305949 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM It is possible to provide a speech synthesis device, speech synthesis method, and speech synthesis program which can improve a speech quality and reduce a calculation amount with a preferable balance between them. The speech synthesis device includes: a sub-score calcul... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100204985 | FREQUENCY AXIS WARPING FACTOR ESTIMATION APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM A warping factor estimation system comprises label information generation unit that outputs voice/non-voice label information, warp model storage unit in which a probability model representing voice and non-voice occurrence probabilities is stored, and warp estimation u... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100145706 | Speech Synthesizing Device, Speech Synthesizing Method, and Program An object of the present invention is to provide a device and a method for generating a synthesized speech that has an utterance form that matches music. A musical genre estimation unit of the speech synthesizing device estimates the musical genre to which a received mu... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100125459 | STOCHASTIC PHONEME AND ACCENT GENERATION USING ACCENT CLASS Exemplary embodiments provide for determining a sequence of words in a TTS system. An input text is analyzed using two models, a word n-gram model and an accent class n-gram model. A list of all possible words for each word in the input is generated for each model. Each... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100088089 | Speech Synthesizer Synthesizing a set of digital speech samples corresponding to a selected voicing state includes dividing speech model parameters into frames, with a frame of speech model parameters including pitch information, voicing information determining the voicing state in one or... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100076768 | SPEECH SYNTHESIZING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM Disclosed is a speech synthesizing apparatus including a segment selection unit that selects a segment suited to a target segment environment from candidate segments, includes a prosody change amount calculation unit that calculates prosody change amount of each candida... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100049523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING VOICE SYNTHESIS Systems and methods for providing synthesized speech in a manner that takes into account the environment where the speech is presented. A method embodiment includes, based on a listening environment and at least one other parameter associated with at least one other par... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20090319275 | SPEECH SYNTHESIZING DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIZING SYSTEM, LANGUAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIZING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM A speech synthesizing device, the device includes: a text accepting unit for accepting text data; an extracting unit for extracting a special character including a pictographic character, a face mark or a symbol from text data accepted by the text accepting unit; a dict... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090313025 | Automatic Segmentation in Speech Synthesis A method and system are disclosed that automatically segment speech to generate a speech inventory. The method includes initializing a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) using seed input data, performing a segmentation of the HMM into speech units to generate phone labels, corre... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090254349 | SPEECH SYNTHESIZER A speech synthesizer can execute speech content editing at high speed and generate speech content easily. The speech synthesizer includes a small speech element DB (101), a small speech element selection unit (102), a small speech element concatenation uni... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090248417 | SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A method to generate a pitch contour for speech synthesis is proposed. The method is based on finding the pitch contour that maximizes a total likelihood function created by the combination of all the statistical models of the pitch contour segments of an utterance, at ... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090063153 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLENDING SYNTHETIC VOICES A system and method for generating a synthetic text-to-speech TTS voice are disclosed. A user is presented with at least one TTS voice and at least one voice characteristic. A new synthetic TTS voice is generated by blending a plurality of existing TTS voices according ... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20080201150 | VOICE CONVERSION APPARATUS AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS A conversion rule and a rule selection parameter are stored. The conversion rule converts a spectral parameter of a source speaker to a spectral parameter of a target speaker. The rule selection parameter represents the spectral parameter of the source speaker. A first ... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20060224388 | Apparatus and method for concealing erased periodic signal data Circuitry and a method compensate the erasure of speech signal data or similar periodic signal data, by substitution using past periodic signal data input. After a predetermined number of latest periodic signal data have been saved, whether or not an erasure occurs is d... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060161438 | Hybrid-parameter mode speech synthesis system and method A hybrid-parameter mode speech synthesis system includes a sample unit corpus storing multiple sample speech units, an indirect unit corpus storing indirect parameter sequences of partial synthesis speeches, a synthesis parameter database storing parameter sequences of ... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060136216 | Text-to-speech system and method thereof The present invention is related to a text-to-speech system, including a text processor dividing a first text data and a second text data from a text string having at least a first language and a second language; a database including a plurality of acoustic units common... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20060009978 | Methods and systems for synthesis of accurate visible speech via transformation of motion capture data The disclosure describes methods for synthesis of accurate visible speech using transformations of motion-capture data. Methods are provided for synthesis of visible speech in a three-dimensional face. A sequence of visemes, each associated with one or more phonemes, ar... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050182629 | Corpus-based speech synthesis based on segment recombination A system and method generate synthesized speech through concatenation of speech segments that are derived from a large prosodically-rich corpus of speech segments including using an additional dictionary of speech segment identifier sequences. ... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050149329 | Apparatus and method for changing the playback rate of recorded speech An apparatus for changing the playback rate of recorded speech includes memory storing a plurality of recorded speech messages and a plurality of feature tables. Each feature table is associated with an individual one of the speech messages and includes speech frame par... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050144002 | Text-to-speech conversion with associated mood tag A method (and associated apparatus) comprises associating a mood tag with text. The mood tag specifies a mood to be applied when the text is subsequently converted to an audio signal. In accordance with another embodiment, a method (and associated apparatus) comprises r... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050049875 | Voice converter for assimilation by frame synthesis with temporal alignment A voice converting apparatus is constructed for converting an input voice into an output voice according to a target voice. In the apparatus, a storage section provisionally stores source data, which is associated to and extracted from the target voice. An analyzing sec... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050010414 | Speech synthesis apparatus and speech synthesis method A speech synthesis apparatus and a speech synthesis method, in which a waveform of a desired formant shape may be generated with a small volume of computing operations. A voiced sound generating unit of the speech synthesis apparatus includes n single formant generating... | 01/13/2005 |
