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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2003
Applicant:
Ercan Ferit Gigi, Eindhoven, NL;
Inventor:
Ercan Ferit Gigi, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 11/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of synthesizing of a speech signal, comprising: —assigning of a first identifier to a first class of intervals of an original speech signal and assigning of a second identifier to a second class of intervals of the original speech signal, —windowing the original speech signal to provide a number of pitch bells, —processing the pitch bells having the first identifier assigned thereto for modifying a duration of the speech signal, —performing an overlap and add operation on the processed pitch bells.