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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
May. 29, 2009
Tuomo Johannes Raitio, Espoo, FI;
Antti Santeri Suni, Helsinki, FI;
Martti Tapani Vainio, Helsinki, FI;
Paavo Ilmari Alku, Helsinki, FI;
Jani Kristian Nurminen, Lempäälä, FI;
Tuomo Johannes Raitio, Espoo, FI;
Antti Santeri Suni, Helsinki, FI;
Martti Tapani Vainio, Helsinki, FI;
Paavo Ilmari Alku, Helsinki, FI;
Jani Kristian Nurminen, Lempäälä, FI;
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
An apparatus for providing improved speech synthesis may include a processor and a memory storing executable instructions. In response to execution of the instructions by the processor, the apparatus may perform at least selecting a real glottal pulse from among one or more stored real glottal pulses based at least in part on a property associated with the real glottal pulse, utilizing the real glottal pulse selected as a basis for generation of an excitation signal, and modifying the excitation signal based on spectral parameters generated by a model to provide synthetic speech.