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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2018
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;
Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation, Kawasaki, JP;
Kouichirou Mori, Kawasaki, JP;
Gou Hirabayashi, Tatebayashi, JP;
Masahiro Morita, Yokohama, JP;
Yamato Ohtani, Sakai, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;
Toshiba Digital Solutions Cornoration, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A speech synthesis dictionary delivery device that delivers a dictionary for performing speech synthesis to terminals, comprises a storage device for speech synthesis dictionary database that stores a first dictionary which includes an acoustic model of a speaker and is associated with identification information of the speaker, that stores a second dictionary which includes an acoustic model generated using voice data of a plurality of speakers, and that stores parameter sets of the speakers to be used with the second dictionary and which are associated with identification information of the speakers, a processor that determines one of the first dictionary and the second dictionary, which should be used in the terminal for a specified speaker, and an input output interface (I/F) that receives the identification information of a speaker transmitted from the terminal and then delivers at least one of a first dictionary, the second dictionary, and a parameter set of the second dictionary, on the basis of the received identification information of the speaker and a result of the determination by the processor.