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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2011
Cheng-yuan Lin, Tainan, TW;
Chien-hung Huang, Tainan, TW;
Chih-chung Kuo, Hsinchu, TW;
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
In one embodiment of a controllable prosody re-estimation system, a TTS/STS engine consists of a prosody prediction/estimation module, a prosody re-estimation module and a speech synthesis module. The prosody prediction/estimation module generates predicted or estimated prosody information. And then the prosody re-estimation module re-estimates the predicted or estimated prosody information and produces new prosody information, according to a set of controllable parameters provided by a controllable prosody parameter interface. The new prosody information is provided to the speech synthesis module to produce a synthesized speech.