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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2008
Yoshifumi Hirose, Kyoto, JP;
Takahiro Kamai, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshifumi Hirose, Kyoto, JP;
Takahiro Kamai, Kyoto, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A speech separating apparatus includes: a PARCOR calculating unit that extracts vocal tract information from an input speech signal; a filter smoothing unit that smoothes, in a first time constant, the vocal tract information extracted by the PARCOR calculating unit; an inverse filtering unit that calculates a filter coefficient of a filter having a frequency amplitude response characteristic inverse to the vocal tract information smoothed by the filter smoothing unit, so as to filter the input speech signal using the filter having the calculated filter coefficient; and a voicing source modeling unit that cuts out, from the input speech signal filtered by the inverse filtering unit, a waveform included in a second time constant shorter than the first time constant, so as to calculate, for each waveform that is taken, voicing source information from the each waveform.