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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2001
Applicants:
Dan Chazan, Haifa, IL;
Ron Hoory, Haifa, IL;
Inventors:
Dan Chazan, Haifa, IL;
Ron Hoory, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporaiton, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 11/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for speech synthesis includes receiving an input speech signal containing a set of speech segments, and estimating spectral envelopes of the input speech signal in a succession of time intervals during each of the speech segments. The spectral envelopes are integrated over a plurality of window functions in a frequency domain so as to determine elements of feature vectors corresponding to the speech segments. An output speech signal is reconstructed by concatenating the feature vectors corresponding to a sequence of the speech segments.