EP0144731A3 - Speech synthesizer - Google Patents

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EP0144731A3
EP0144731A3 EP84113186A EP84113186A EP0144731A3 EP 0144731 A3 EP0144731 A3 EP 0144731A3 EP 84113186 A EP84113186 A EP 84113186A EP 84113186 A EP84113186 A EP 84113186A EP 0144731 A3 EP0144731 A3 EP 0144731A3
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speech
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speech synthesizer
articulation
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Katsunobu Fushikida
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NEC Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L25/00—Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups G10L15/00 - G10L21/00

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Computational Linguistics (AREA)
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  • Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology (AREA)
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Abstract

The invention relates to a speech synthesizer comprising a converting means (20, 30) for converting the input sequence of characters to a sequence of articulation symbols corresponding to a unit speech waveform which is obtained by dividing a diphone, a memory (80) for storing said unit speech waveform corresponding to the predetermined articulation symbols, and a synthesizing means (60, 70) for reading said unit speech waveforms corresponding to said articulation symbols of the converted sequence of articulation symbols from said memory (80) and synthesizing them. The speech synthesizer requires a comparatively small memory capacity and provides synthesized speech of high quality.
EP84113186A 1983-11-01 1984-11-02 Speech synthesizer Expired EP0144731B1 (en)

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JP205227/83 1983-11-01
JP58205227A JPH0642158B2 (en) 1983-11-01 1983-11-01 Speech synthesizer

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EP0144731A3 true EP0144731A3 (en) 1985-07-03
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DE2531006A1 (en) * 1975-07-11 1977-01-27 Deutsche Bundespost Speech synthesis system from diphthongs and phonemes - uses time limit for stored diphthongs and their double application
EP0058130A2 (en) * 1981-02-11 1982-08-18 Eberhard Dr.-Ing. Grossmann Method for speech synthesizing with unlimited vocabulary, and arrangement for realizing the same
DE3220281A1 (en) * 1981-05-29 1982-12-23 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, Osaka System for composing a voice through compilation of phoneme components
DE3246712A1 (en) * 1981-12-17 1983-06-30 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, Osaka METHOD FOR COMPOSING A VOICE ANALYSIS
EP0087199A1 (en) * 1982-02-24 1983-08-31 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Device for generating audio information of individual characters
EP0107945A1 (en) * 1982-10-19 1984-05-09 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba Speech synthesizing apparatus

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JPS5331561A (en) * 1976-09-04 1978-03-24 Mitsukawa Shiyouichi Method of manufacturing ssshaped springs
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DE2531006A1 (en) * 1975-07-11 1977-01-27 Deutsche Bundespost Speech synthesis system from diphthongs and phonemes - uses time limit for stored diphthongs and their double application
EP0058130A2 (en) * 1981-02-11 1982-08-18 Eberhard Dr.-Ing. Grossmann Method for speech synthesizing with unlimited vocabulary, and arrangement for realizing the same
DE3220281A1 (en) * 1981-05-29 1982-12-23 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, Osaka System for composing a voice through compilation of phoneme components
DE3246712A1 (en) * 1981-12-17 1983-06-30 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, Osaka METHOD FOR COMPOSING A VOICE ANALYSIS
EP0087199A1 (en) * 1982-02-24 1983-08-31 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Device for generating audio information of individual characters
EP0107945A1 (en) * 1982-10-19 1984-05-09 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba Speech synthesizing apparatus

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ICASSP 80, PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, Vol.2, April 9-11, 1980, Fairmont Hotel, DENVER, COLORADO, (US), pages 557-560, IEEE, NEW YORK, (US) S. IMAI et al.:"Cepstral synthesis of Japanese from CV syllable parameters". *
ICASSP 82, PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, Vol. 2, May 3-5, 1982, Palais des Congres, PARIS, (FR), pages 936-939, IEEE, NEW YORK, (US) E.R. GROSSMANN:"Speech synthesis in the time domain from text". *
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEMINAR ON PATTERN RECOGNITION, Vol. 1, November 19-20, 1977, University Sart-Tilman, LIEGE, (BE) pages 4.4.1 - 4.4.6, Sitel, OPHAIN, (BE) D. TEIL:"Un peripherique a reponse vocale: L'ICOPHONE 5". *
THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Vol. 25, No. 1, January 1953, pages 105-113, (US) A.S. HOUSE et al.:"The influence of consonant environment upon the secondary acoustical characteristics of vowels". *

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