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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2012
Applicants:
Yasuyuki Mitsui, Tokyo, JP;
Masanori Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Reishi Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 13/06 (2013.01); G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 21/00 (2013.01); G10L 13/04 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01); G10L 13/10 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/08 (2013.01); G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 2013/105 (2013.01);
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.