Word or collocation emphasizing voice synthesizer

Details Word or collocation emphasizing voice synthesizer Word or collocation emphasizing voice synthesizer

2005-02-23

2008-11-18

Opsasnick, Michael N (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Synthesis

C704S260000, C704S266000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07454345

ABSTRACT:
A voice synthesizer, which obtains a voice by emphasizing a specific part of a sentence, includes an emphasis degree deciding unit that extracts a word or a collocation to be emphasized from among respective words or respective collocations on the basis of an extracting reference with respect to the each word or the each collocation included in a sentence and deciding an emphasis degree of the extracted word or the extracted collocation, an acoustic processing unit that synthesizes a voice having an emphasis degree which is decided by the emphasis degree deciding unit applied to the word to be emphasized or the collocation to be emphasized, whereby the emphasized part of the word or the collocation can be obtained automatically on the basis of the extracting reference, such as a frequency of appearance and a level of importance of the word or the collocation.

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