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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2005
Tokitomo Ariyoshi, Saitama, JP;
Kazuhiro Nakadai, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Tsujino, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information transmission device which analyzes a diction of a speaker and provides an utterance in accordance with the diction of the speaker, and which has a microphone detecting a sound signal of the speaker, a feature extraction unit extracting at least one feature value of the diction of the speaker based on the sound signal detected by the microphone, a voice synthesis unit synthesizing a voice signal to be uttered so that the voice signal has the same feature value as the diction of the speaker, based on the feature value extracted by the feature extraction unit, and a voice output unit performing an utterance based on the voice signal synthesized by the voice synthesis unit.