Feature-domain concatenative speech synthesis

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2006-04-25

2006-04-25

Young, W. R. (Department: 2655)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

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C704S205000

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ABSTRACT:
A method for speech synthesis includes receiving an input speech signal containing a set of speech segments, and estimating spectral envelopes of the input speech signal in a succession of time intervals during each of the speech segments. The spectral envelopes are integrated over a plurality of window functions in a frequency domain so as to determine elements of feature vectors corresponding to the speech segments. An output speech signal is reconstructed by concatenating the feature vectors corresponding to a sequence of the speech segments.

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