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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2020
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A speech generation method and apparatus are disclosed. The speech generation method includes obtaining, by a processor, a linguistic feature and a prosodic feature from an input text, determining, by the processor, a first candidate speech element through a cost calculation and a Viterbi search based on the linguistic feature and the prosodic feature, generating, at a speech element generator implemented at the processor, a second candidate speech element based on the linguistic feature or the prosodic feature and the first candidate speech element, and outputting, by the processor, an output speech by concatenating the second candidate speech element and a speech sequence determined through the Viterbi search.