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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2005
Hitoshi Sasaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasushi Yamazaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasuji Ota, Kawasaki, JP;
Kaori Endo, Kawasaki, JP;
Nobuyuki Katae, Kawasaki, JP;
Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kawasaki, JP;
Hitoshi Sasaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasushi Yamazaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasuji Ota, Kawasaki, JP;
Kaori Endo, Kawasaki, JP;
Nobuyuki Katae, Kawasaki, JP;
Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A voice synthesizer, which obtains a voice by emphasizing a specific part of a sentence, includes an emphasis degree deciding unit that extracts a word or a collocation to be emphasized from among respective words or respective collocations on the basis of an extracting reference with respect to the each word or the each collocation included in a sentence and deciding an emphasis degree of the extracted word or the extracted collocation, an acoustic processing unit that synthesizes a voice having an emphasis degree which is decided by the emphasis degree deciding unit applied to the word to be emphasized or the collocation to be emphasized, whereby the emphasized part of the word or the collocation can be obtained automatically on the basis of the extracting reference, such as a frequency of appearance and a level of importance of the word or the collocation.