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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2000
Yoshinori Shiga, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A text analysis section reads, from a text file, a text to be subjected to speech synthesis, and analyzes the text using a morphological analysis section, a syntactic structure analysis section, a semantic analysis section and a similarly-pronounced-word detecting section. A speech segment selecting section incorporated in a speech synthesizing section obtains the degree of intelligibility of synthetic speech for each accent phrase on the basis of the text analysis result of the text analysis section, thereby selecting a speech segment string corresponding to each accent phrase on the basis of the degree of intelligibility from one of a 0th-rank speech segment dictionary, a first-rank speech segment dictionary and a second-rank speech segment dictionary. A speech segment connecting section connects selected speech segment strings and subjects the connection result to speech synthesis performed by a synthesizing filter section.