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Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 26, 2012
Applicant:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yamato Ohtani, Fuchu, JP;

Masatsune Tamura, Kawasaki, JP;

Masahiro Morita, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G10L 13/02 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/28 (2013.01); G10L 13/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a speech synthesis apparatus includes a language analyzer, statistical model storage, model selector, parameter generator, basis model storage, and filter processor. The language analyzer analyzes text data and outputs language information data that represents linguistic information of the text data. The statistical model storage stores statistical models prepared by statistically modeling acoustic information included in speech. The model selector selects a statistical model from the models based on the language information data. The parameter generator generates speech parameter sequences using the statistical model selected by the model selector. The basis model storage stores a basis model including basis vectors, each of which expresses speech information for each limited frequency range. The filter processor outputs synthetic speech by executing filter processing of the speech parameter sequences and the basis model.


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