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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8155966 | Apparatus and method for producing an audible speech signal from a non-audible speech signal [Problems] To convert a signal of non-audible murmur obtained through an in-vivo conduction microphone into a signal of a speech that is recognizable for (hardly misrecognized by) a receiving person with maximum accuracy. [Means for Solving Problems] | 04/10/2012 |
| 8055693 | Method for retrieving items represented by particles from an information database A set of words is converted to a corresponding set of particles, wherein the words and the particles are unique within each set. For each word, all possible partitionings of the word into particles are determined, and a cost is determined for each possible partition... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8024193 | Methods and apparatus related to pruning for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis The present invention provides, among other things, automatic identification of near-redundant units in a large TTS voice table, identifying which units are distinctive enough to keep and which units are sufficiently redundant to discard. According to an aspect of t... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7966186 | 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 accord... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7664645 | Individualization of voice output by matching synthesized voice target voice The voice of a synthesized voice output is individualized and matched to a user voice, the voice of a communication partner or the voice of a famous personality. In this way mobile terminals in particular can be originally individualized and text messages can be rea... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7454348 | 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 accord... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7401021 | Apparatus and method for voice modulation in mobile terminal An apparatus for voice modulation in a mobile terminal comprises: a voice input unit being inputted a voice of a subscriber and generating an analog voice signal; a voice modulation unit for modulating the generated analog voice signal; an audio processor for conver... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7379873 | Singing voice synthesizing apparatus, singing voice synthesizing method and program for synthesizing singing voice Voice synthesis unit data stored in a phoneme database 10 is selected by a voice synthesis unit selector 12 in accordance with MIDI information stored in a performance data storage unit 11. Characteristic parameters are derived from the selected... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7349847 | Speech synthesis apparatus and speech synthesis method A speech synthesis apparatus appropriately transforms a voice characteristic of speech. The speech synthesis apparatus includes an element storing unit in which speech elements are stored, and a function storing unit in which transformation functions are stored, an ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336565 | Talking alarm clock An educational alarm clock radio is provided that speaks a new word each day when the alarm goes off, the words each being stored in a memory cartridge as an individual increments of information in a sequential set of increments. When the alarm goes off, the word of... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337117 | Apparatus and method for phonetically screening predetermined character strings An apparatus for phonetically screening predetermined character strings. The apparatus includes a text-to-speech module, and a phonetic screening module in communication with the text-to-speech module. The phonetic screening module is for replacing a first character... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333034 | Data processing device, encoding device, encoding method, decoding device decoding method, and program The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus, a method and apparatus for encoding, a method and apparatus for decoding, and a program, that allow a reduction in an algorithm delay. An interpolator 51 produces interpolated PCM data by performin... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7277550 | Enhancing audio signals by nonlinear spectral operations A system and method are disclosed for enhancing audio signals by nonlinear spectral operations. Successive portions of the audio signal are processed using a subband filter bank. A nonlinear modification is applied to the output of the subband filter bank for each s... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275035 | System and method for speech generation from brain activity In a method of assisting a subject to generate speech, at least one first neural impulse is sensed from a first preselected location in the subject's brain. A first preselected sound is associated with the first neural impulse. The first preselected sound is generat... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7251601 | Speech synthesis method and speech synthesizer A speech synthesis method comprises selecting a predetermined formant parameters from formant parameters according to a pitch pattern, phoneme duration, and phoneme symbol string, generating a plurality of sine waves based on formant frequency and formant phase of t... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7165031 | Speech processing apparatus and method using confidence scores A speech recognition method and apparatus is disclosed in which outputs a confidence score indicative of the posterior probability of an utterance being correctly matched to a word model. The confidence score for the matching of an utterance to a word model is deter... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162417 | Speech synthesizing method and apparatus for altering amplitudes of voiced and invoiced portions An amplitude altering magnification (r) applied to sub-phoneme units of a voiced portion and an amplitude altering magnification s to be applied to sub-phoneme units of an unvoiced portion are determined based upon a target phoneme average power (p0) of s... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159008 | Chat interface with haptic feedback functionality A chat interface allowing a user to exchange haptic chat messages with other users in a chat session over a computer network. A chat interface can be displayed by a local computer and receives input data from a user of the local computer, such as text characters or ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7135636 | Singing voice synthesizing apparatus, singing voice synthesizing method and program for singing voice synthesizing A method for synthesizing a natural-sounding singing voice divides performance data into a transition part and a long sound part. The transition part is represented by articulation (phonemic chain) data that is read from an articulation template database and is outp... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7124084 | Singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus and storage medium There are provided a singing voice-synthesizing method and apparatus capable of performing synthesis of natural singing voices close to human singing voices based on performance data being input in real time. Performance data is inputted for each phonetic unit const... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117154 | Converting apparatus of voice signal by modulation of frequencies and amplitudes of sinusoidal wave components A voice converter synthesizes an output voice signal from an input voice signal and a reference voice signal. In the voice converter, an analyzer device analyzes a plurality of sinusoidal wave components contained in the input voice signal to derive a parameter set ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7069217 | Waveform synthesis A synthesizer is disclosed in which a speech waveform is synthesized by selecting a synthetic starting waveform segment and then generating a sequence of further segments. The further waveform segments are generated based jointly upon the value of the immediately-pr... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7050818 | Location based service request system A wireless phone based system to accommodate users of wireless phones for providing information as to the location of certain services such as gasoline stations, movie theatres, drug stores, etc., includes the utilization of a GPS receiver and a wireless phone, with... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050966 | Sound intelligibility enhancement using a psychoacoustic model and an oversampled filterbank A system and method of improving signal intelligibility over an interference signal is provided. The system includes a psychoacoustic professor having a psychoacoustic model wherein the level of a signal-of-interest is improved so as to be audible above noise and so... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7016841 | Singing voice synthesizing apparatus, singing voice synthesizing method, and program for realizing singing voice synthesizing method A singing voice synthesizing apparatus is provided, which enables achievement of a natural sounding synthesized singing voice with a good level of comprehensibility. A phoneme database stores a plurality of voice fragment data formed of voice fragments each being a ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010488 | System and method for compressing concatenative acoustic inventories for speech synthesis A system and method is used to compress concatenative acoustic inventories for speech. Instead of using general purpose signal compression methods such as vector quantization, the method of the invention uses multiple properties of acoustic inventories to reduce the... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6999520 | Efficient FFT implementation for asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) A method and apparatus for extending the dynamic range of an integer or fixed-point Fast Fourier Transform (“FFT”) system that may be used in communications devices such as ADSL modems. The disclosed FFT system utilizes a shift control module to increase the eff... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6993484 | Speech synthesizing method and apparatus An amplitude altering magnification (r) applied to sub-phoneme units of a voiced portion and an amplitude altering magnification s to be applied to sub-phoneme units of an unvoiced portion are determined based upon a target phoneme average power (p0) of s... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6963842 | Efficient system and method for converting between different transform-domain signal representations A memory-efficient system converting a signal from a first transform domain to a second transform domain. The system includes a first mechanism that obtains an input signal expressed via a first transform-domain signal representation. A second mechanism expresses th... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6959037 | System and method for locating and determining discontinuities and estimating loop loss in a communications medium using frequency domain correlation A system for determining characteristics associated with a communication channel includes a transmitter for transmitting a first signal via the communication channel. The system includes a receiver for receiving a second signal via the communication channel in respo... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6950799 | Speech converter utilizing preprogrammed voice profiles A speech processing system modifies various aspects of input speech according to a user-selected one of various preprogrammed voice fonts. Initially, the speech converter receives a formants signal representing an input speech signal and a pitch signal representing ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947731 | Method for converting status messages output in spoken form A method for conversion of a voice output of appliance statuses, wherein three spoken phrases are stored for each appliance to be controlled, with the first spoken phrase being allocated to a first appliance status, the second spoken phrase being allocated to a seco... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6845359 | FFT based sine wave synthesis method for parametric vocoders A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based voice synthesis method 110, program product and vocoder. Sounds, e.g., speech and audio, are synthesized from multiple sine waves. Each sine wave component is represented by a small number of FFT coefficients 116. A... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6804649 | Expressivity of voice synthesis by emphasizing source signal features Voice synthesis with improved expressivity is obtained in a voice synthesiser of source-filter type by making use of a library of source sound categories in the source module. Each source sound category corresponds to a particular morphological category and is deriv... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6795807 | Method and means for creating prosody in speech regeneration for laryngectomees A device and a method to be used by laryngeally impaired people to improve the naturalness of their speech. An artificial sound creating mechanism which forms a simulated glottal pulse in the vocal tract is utilized. An artificial glottal pulse is compared with the ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6785652 | Method and apparatus for improved duration modeling of phonemes A method and an apparatus for improved duration modeling of phonemes in a speech synthesis system are provided. According to one aspect, text is received into a processor of a speech synthesis system. The received text is processed using a sum-of-products phoneme du... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6778962 | Speech synthesis with prosodic model data and accent type A speech synthesizing method includes determining the accent type of the input character string, selecting the prosodic model data from a prosody dictionary for storing typical ones of the prosodic models representing the prosodic information for the character strin... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6757653 | Reassembling speech sentence fragments using associated phonetic property A method of composing messages for speech output and the improvement of the quality of reproduction of speech outputs. A series of original sentences for messages is segmented and stored as audio files with search criteria. The length, position, and transition value... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754628 | Speaker recognition using cohort-specific feature transforms Methods and apparatus for facilitating speaker recognition, wherein, from target data that is provided relating to a target speaker and background data that is provided relating to at least one background speaker, a set of cohort data is selected from the background... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6741666 | Device and method for transforming a digital signal A method and a device by which original digital signals are analysis-filtered, where the original digital signals include original samples representing physical quantities, and where the original samples are transformed by successive calculation steps into high and ... | 05/25/2004 |
