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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2018
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hiro Iwase, Kanagawa, JP;

Mari Saito, Kanagawa, JP;

Shinichi Kawano, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/02 (2013.01); G10L 13/047 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/25 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2013.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01); G10L 15/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/047 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 15/25 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); G06T 1/0014 (2013.01); G10L 13/02 (2013.01); G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 21/00 (2013.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present technology relates to a learning device, a learning method, a voice synthesis device, and a voice synthesis method configured so that information can be provided via voice allowing easy understanding of contents by a user as a speech destination. A learning device according to one embodiment of the present technology performs voice recognition of speech voice of a plurality of users, estimates statuses when a speech is made, and learns, on the basis of speech voice data, a voice recognition result, and the statuses when the speech is made, voice synthesis data to be used for generation of synthesized voice according to statuses upon voice synthesis. Moreover, a voice synthesis device estimates statuses, and uses the voice synthesis data to generate synthesized voice indicating the contents of predetermined text data and obtained according to the estimated statuses. The present technology can be applied to an agent device.


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