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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2007
Yoshifumi Hirose, Kyoto, JP;
Takahiro Kamai, Kyoto, JP;
Yumiko Kato, Osaka, JP;
Natsuki Saito, Osaka, JP;
Yoshifumi Hirose, Kyoto, JP;
Takahiro Kamai, Kyoto, JP;
Yumiko Kato, Osaka, JP;
Natsuki Saito, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A speech synthesizer that provides high-quality sound along with stable sound quality, including: a target parameter generation unit; a speech element DB; an element selection unit; a mixed parameter judgment unit which determines an optimum parameter combination of target parameters and speech elements; a parameter integration unit which integrates the parameters; and a waveform generation unit which generates synthetic speech. High-quality and stable synthetic speech is generated by combining, per parameter dimension, the parameters with stable sound quality generated by the target parameter generation unit with speech elements with high sound quality and a sense of true speech selected by the element selection unit.