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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 13, 1998
Osamu Kaseno, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A text segment selection unit extracts parameters of exemplary text segment of a user's choice and a fixed form portion in the exemplary text segment from an exemplary text segment database. A text segment input unit inputs a text segment of a user's choice to e embedded to an unfixed form portion in the exemplary text segment. A text segment generation unit concatenates the input text segment to the text segment of the fixed form portion. A parameter generation unit generates a parameter from the concatenated text segment. A parameter extraction unit extracts the parameter of the unfixed form portion from the generated parameter. A parameter embedding unit concatenates the parameter of the unfixed form portion to the parameter of the fixed form portion to generate a parameter for speech synthesis. A synthesis unit generates synthesized speech from this parameter. With this arrangement, more natural synthesis can be realized without any sense of incongruous prosody between the synthesis-by-rule portion and the analysis portion.