Method for controlling duration in speech synthesis

Details Method for controlling duration in speech synthesis Method for controlling duration in speech synthesis

2011-03-22

2011-03-22

Chawan, Vijay B (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

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C704S211000, C704S208000, C704S258000, C704S267000

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07912708

ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a method of synthesizing of a speech signal, comprising: —assigning of a first identifier to a first class of intervals of an original speech signal and assigning of a second identifier to a second class of intervals of the original speech signal, —windowing the original speech signal to provide a number of pitch bells, —processing the pitch bells having the first identifier assigned thereto for modifying a duration of the speech signal, —performing an overlap and add operation on the processed pitch bells.

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