Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Monitoring/measuring of audio devices – Loudspeaker operation
Patent
1990-11-05
1993-06-15
Kemeny, Emanuel S.
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Monitoring/measuring of audio devices
Loudspeaker operation
G10L 500
Patent
active
052206297
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for reading out a feature parameter and a driver sound source stored in a VCV (vowel-consonant-vowel) speech segment file, sequentially connecting the readout parameter and the readout sound source information in accordance with a predetermined rule, and supplying connected data to a speech synthesizer, thereby generating a speech output, includes a memory for storing the average power of each vowel, and a power controller for controlling the apparatus to normalize a VCV speech segment so that powers at both ends of each VCV segment coincide with the average power of each vowel.
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Aso Takashi
Fujita Takeshi
Kawasaki Katsuhiko
Kosaka Tetsuo
Ohora Yasunori
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Kemeny Emanuel S.
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