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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2010
Applicants:
Kun Liu, Beijing, CN;
Weiguo Wu, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 17/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for extracting a prosodic feature of a speech signal, the method including: dividing the speech signal into speech frames; transforming the speech frames from time domain to frequency domain; and extracting respective prosodic features for different frequency ranges. According to the above technical solution of the present invention, it is possible to effectively extract the prosodic feature which can combine with a traditional acoustics feature without any obstacle.