Speech synthesis device

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2005-11-29

2005-11-29

Chawan, Vijay B. (Department: 2654)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Recognition

C704S258000, C704S268000, C704S205000, C704S206000, C704S257000, C704S208000

Reexamination Certificate

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06970819

ABSTRACT:
The principal object of this invention is to provide a suitable control method for closing length with respect to phonemes (such as unvoiced plosive consonants) having a closing interval, and as a result an improved rule-based speech synthesis device is provided. A phoneme type judgement part201judges whether the phoneme in question is a vowel or consonant and, in the case of a consonant, judges whether or not it is a consonant that anteriorly has a closing interval. As a result, it operates a vowel length estimation part202when it judges that the phoneme is a vowel and operates a consonant length estimation part205when it judges that the phoneme is a consonant, and when it has judged that this phoneme anteriorly has a closing interval, it operates a closing length estimation part208, whereby the respective time lengths are estimated. After that, the estimated time lengths are set by vowel length setting part203, consonant length setting part206and closing length setting part209, respectively.

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