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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2009
Yasuo Yoshioka, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yasuo Yoshioka, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu-shi, JP;
Abstract
Character extraction section extracts character amounts, pertaining to a prosody of voice, from a voice signal sequentially in a time-serial manner. Difference value calculation calculates a difference value between each of the extracted character amounts and a reference value. Processing values, corresponding to the individual character amounts, are generated in accordance with the respective difference values, and a voice processing section controls the individual character amounts of the voice signal in accordance with the processing values corresponding to the character amounts and thereby generates an output signal having a prosody changed from the prosody of the voice signal.