Emphasis controlled speech synthesizer

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1974-11-18

1976-11-30

Claffy, Kathleen H.

G10L 100

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ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a system for synthesizing emphasis-controlled speech from stored signals representative of words precoded by a phase vocoder having analysis bands which are wide relative to the voice harmonic frequency spacings. The stored signals comprise short-time Fourier transform parameters which describe the magnitude and the phase derivative of the short-time speech spectrum. Speech emphasis-controlled synthesis is achieved by extracting the stored signals of chosen words under control of a pitch-duration signal, by concatenating the extracted signals, by modifying the magnitude parameters of the extracted signals to effect a desired speech intensity, by interpolating the extracted parameters, and by decoding the resultant signals in accordance with phase vocoder techniques.

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Lee F., "Reading Machine: Text to Speech," IEEE Trans. on Audio, vol. AU-17, No. 4, Dec. 1969.

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