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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2012
Yasuyuki Mitsui, Tokyo, JP;
Masanori Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Reishi Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There are provided a speech synthesis device, a speech synthesis method and a speech synthesis program which can represent a phoneme as a duration shorter than a duration upon modeling according to a statistical method. A speech synthesis deviceaccording to the present invention includes a phoneme boundary updating meanswhich, by using a voiced utterance likelihood index which is an index indicating a degree of voiced utterance likelihood of each state which represents a phoneme modeled by a statistical method, updates a phoneme boundary position which is a boundary with other phonemes neighboring to the phoneme.
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