Speech synthesis method, speech synthesis system, and speech...

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2008-08-18

2010-12-21

Vo, Huyen X. (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Synthesis

C704S258000, C704S260000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07856357

ABSTRACT:
A speech synthesis system stores a group of speech units in a memory, selects a plurality of speech units from the group based on prosodic information of target speech, the speech units selected corresponding to each of segments which are obtained by segmenting a phoneme string of the target speech and minimizing distortion of synthetic speech generated from the speech units selected to the target speech, generates a new speech unit corresponding to the each of the segments, by fusing the speech units selected, to obtain a plurality of new speech units corresponding to the segments respectively, and generates synthetic speech by concatenating the new speech units.

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