Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Osamu Kaseno

Kiyoshi Hoshino

Tadahiro Oku

Hiroyuki Kamio

Tatsuji Kusumoto

Kanji Inoue

A television audiovisual apparatus using a personal computer comprises an audio/video I/O interface including a television tuner, disposed in the personal computer, and an information compression/decompression unit for compressing audio/video signals input through the audio/video I/O interface in accordance with the MPEG2 specifications to store the compressed audio/video signals in a large capacity storage disposed in the personal computer, and for decompressing compressed audio/video signals in accordance with the MPEG2 specifications.

Television audiovisual, recording and reproducing apparatus using personal computer, method of supplying power to PC card, and PC card

A text segment selection unit extracts parameters of exemplary text segment of a user's choice and a fixed form portion in the exemplary text segment from an exemplary text segment database. A text segment input unit inputs a text segment of a user's choice to e embedded to an unfixed form portion in the exemplary text segment. A text segment generation unit concatenates the input text segment to the text segment of the fixed form portion. A parameter generation unit generates a parameter from the concatenated text segment. A parameter extraction unit extracts the parameter of the unfixed form portion from the generated parameter. A parameter embedding unit concatenates the parameter of the unfixed form portion to the parameter of the fixed form portion to generate a parameter for speech synthesis. A synthesis unit generates synthesized speech from this parameter. With this arrangement, more natural synthesis can be realized without any sense of incongruous prosody between the synthesis-by-rule portion and the analysis portion.

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Yokohama, Japan

Osamu Kaseno