Segment set creating method and apparatus

Details Segment set creating method and apparatus Segment set creating method and apparatus

2005-09-14

2009-10-13

Chawan, Vijay B (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Synthesis

C704S267000, C704S245000, C704S200000, C704S243000, C704S254000, C704S236000, C704S258000, C345S473000, C434S156000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07603278

ABSTRACT:
A segment set before updating is read, and clustering considering a phoneme environment is performed to it. For each cluster obtained by the clustering, a representative segment of a segment set belonging to the cluster is generated. For each cluster, a segment belonging to the cluster is replaced with the representative segment so as to update the segment set.

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