Patent
1995-06-27
1998-02-03
MacDonald, Allen R.
395 269, G10L 504
Patent
active
057153680
ABSTRACT:
To synthesize speech, which is clear and high in naturalness, in a Japanese-language speech synthesis system by improving not only phoneme information but also rhythm information. In the Japanese-language, the independent word speech and the adjunct word speech are remarkably different in speech characteristic. The difference in speech characteristics between them is clearly observed, particularly in rhythmical elements such as the intensity, speech, and pitch of speech. From this fact, there is provided a new rule synthesis method which uses as a speech synthesis unit an adjunct word chain unit comprising a chain of one or more adjunct words and which is capable of synthesizing speech whose naturalness is high. The portion other than the adjunct word portion, i.e., the independent word portion, is constituted in a CV/VC unit.
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Okochi Masaaki
Saito Takashi
Dorvil Richemond
International Business Machines - Corporation
MacDonald Allen R.
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