Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Hyuta Tanaka

Masaaki Sasaki

Tetsuji Makino

Masatoshi Watanuki

Michihiro Nihei

Katsunori Ishii

A sound synthesis device that includes a processor configured to perform the following: extracting intonation information from prosodic information contained in sound data and digitally smoothing the extracted intonation information to obtain smoothed intonation information; obtaining a plurality of digital sound units based on text data and concatenating the plurality of digital sound units so as to construct a concatenated series of digital sound units that corresponds to the text data; and modifying the concatenated series of digital sound units in accordance with the smoothed intonation information with respect to at least one of parameters of the concatenated series of digital sound units to generate synthesized sound data corresponding to the text data.

Sound synthesis device, sound synthesis method and storage medium

A moving image reproducer includes a generation section, a calculation section, a determination section, a correction section and a control section. The generation section generates an interpolation frame image interpolating between two adjacent frame images among a plurality of frame images. The calculation section sequentially calculates a progress level of a predetermined musical piece between the two adjacent frame images reproduced in synchronization with the predetermined musical piece. The determination section determines whether the progress level has varied along with a change in a tempo of the predetermined musical piece defined in the tempo information. The correction section corrects the progress level so as to reduce the variation in the progress level along with the change in the tempo if the progress level is determined to have varied. The control section controls the generation section to generate an interpolation frame image corresponding to the corrected progress level.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hyuta Tanaka