Hitachi, Ltd.

Yasunori Kawauchi

Atsuhiko Urushihara

Koji Suso

Akira Kojima

Minoru Ikeda

Yoshihiro Iwama

Toshiyuki Moriya

Yoshito Nejime

Nobuo Hataoka

Juichi Morikawa

Atsutoshi Sato

Makoto Fukatsu

Yukio Kumagai

Tadashi Kitashima

Tadashi Takamiya

Tadashi Sube

Combined digital video disc recorder and video tape recorder

Combined digital video disc recorder and hard disk recorder

Digital video disc player

The speed of an input speech is changed without any change of the pitch of the input speech. Raw data of a speech are stored so that the speed of the speech can be modulated continuously on the basis of the raw data of the speech. In the speech speed conversion method, a speech speed conversion process for the input speech is carried out in a period designated when speech speed conversion is needed, which the speech speed conversion is not carried out in the other period. Further, in the speech speed conversion apparatus having a unit for inputting a speech, a speech speed conversion unit for changing the speed of the input speech, and a unit for supplying the output of the speech speed conversion unit as an output speech to listener's ears, the apparatus further includes a speech speed conversion switch, and a unit for outputting a speech while changing the speech speed of the input speech in a period in which the speech speed conversion switch is turned on, but for outputting a speech without any change of the input speech in the other period in which the speech speed conversion switch is turned off.

Audio signal storing apparatus having a function for converting speech

Cordless handset telephone

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Mito, Japan

Yasunori Kawauchi