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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2019
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, TW;
Chen-Yu Chiang, Hsinchu, TW;
Guan-Ting Liou, Hsinchu, TW;
Yih-Ru Wang, Hsinchu, TW;
Sin-Horng Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A method is disclosed. The proposed method includes: providing an initial speech corpus including plural utterances; based on a condition of maximum a posteriori (MAP), according to respective sequences of syllable duration, syllable duration prosodic state, syllable tone, base-syllable type, and break type of the kutterance, using a probability of an ISR of the kutterance xto estimate an estimated value {circumflex over (x)}of the x; and through the MAP condition, according to respective sequences of syllable duration, syllable duration prosodic state, syllable tone, base-syllable type, and break type of the given lbreath group/prosodic phrase group (BG/PG) of the kutterance, using a probability of an ISR of the lBG/PG of the kutterance xto estimate an estimated value {circumflex over (x)}of the xwherein the {circumflex over (x)}is the estimated value of local ISR, and a mean of a prior probability model of the {circumflex over (x)}is the {circumflex over (x)}.