Integrated circuit phoneme-based speech synthesizer

Details Integrated circuit phoneme-based speech synthesizer Integrated circuit phoneme-based speech synthesizer

1982-04-19

1984-02-21

Kemeny, Emanuel S.

Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices

Monitoring/measuring of audio devices

Loudspeaker operation

G10L 100

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044332106

ABSTRACT:
A phoneme-based speech synthesizer that is particularly adapted for implementation on a single integrated circuit chip. The vocal tract is comprised of a fixed resonant filter and a plurality of tunable resonant filters whose resonant frequencies are controlled in accordance with the values of certain control parameters. The vocal tract is implemented utilizing a capacitive switching technique which eliminates the need for large valued components to achieve the relatively low frequencies of human speech. In addition, a novel digital transition circuit is included which gradually transitions the values of the vocal tract control parameters as they change from phoneme to phoneme. A unique glottal source generator is also disclosed which is adapted to digitally generate a glottal pulse signal in a manner which readily permits the glottal pulse to be spectrally shaped in any desired configuration.

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Ser. No. 952,792, filed Oct. 19, 1978, Richard T. Gagnon.

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