EP0058130A3 - Method for speech synthesizing with unlimited vocabulary, and arrangement for realizing the same - Google Patents

Method for speech synthesizing with unlimited vocabulary, and arrangement for realizing the same Download PDF

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EP0058130A3
EP0058130A3 EP82730011A EP82730011A EP0058130A3 EP 0058130 A3 EP0058130 A3 EP 0058130A3 EP 82730011 A EP82730011 A EP 82730011A EP 82730011 A EP82730011 A EP 82730011A EP 0058130 A3 EP0058130 A3 EP 0058130A3
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Eberhard Grossmann
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L13/00—Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
    • G10L13/02—Methods for producing synthetic speech; Speech synthesisers
    • G10L13/04—Details of speech synthesis systems, e.g. synthesiser structure or memory management

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1. A method for the synthesis of speech with an unlimited vocabulary in the time domain from sound elements which are obtained from natural speech samples and are coded with low redundancy in digital form, stored and also reduced in length, in each case to the significant area of the relevant time signal typical of the sound, and in number, by utilizing related sounds which are mutually transformable into each other, having regard to the necessary storage space requirement, these sound elements being linked, with respect to the form, number and sequence required, into digital signal sequences on the basis of input commands and of predetermined rules of linkage for the purposes of speech synthesis, these signal sequences being used to generate, by means of digital/analog conversion and controllable amplification, sound waves which can be perceived as speech, characterized in : providing a total of about 100 sound elements, that is to say - about 50 elements for transitions sounds with an average of 240 samples each for an output frequency of 8 kHz, and - about 40 elements for phonemes with an average of 500 samples for unvoiced and 140 samples for voiced phonemes each and an output frequency of 8 kHz, and enabling the pitch to be varied for reproduction, in the case of the elements for the voiced transition sounds and phonemes, by omitting or using at least once, as a result of appropriate input commands, those samples and/or values which are preset as suitable by means of marker words at discrete positions in the time signal, depending on requirement, when the digital signal sequences are being formed.
EP82730011A 1981-02-11 1982-02-11 Method for speech synthesizing with unlimited vocabulary, and arrangement for realizing the same Expired EP0058130B1 (en)

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AT82730011T ATE20784T1 (en) 1981-02-11 1982-02-11 METHOD FOR SYNTHESIS OF INFINITE VOCABULARY SPEECH AND CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD.

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DE19813105518 DE3105518A1 (en) 1981-02-11 1981-02-11 METHOD FOR SYNTHESIS OF LANGUAGE WITH UNLIMITED VOCUS, AND CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD
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ICASSP 79, 1979 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing, 2-4. April 1979, Washington D.C. IEEE New York (US) R. SCHWARTZ u.a.: "Diphone Synthesis for Phonetic Vocoding" seiten 891-893 * seiten 892, 893, "Time Warping" *
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Proceedings of the IEEE, Band 64, Heft 4, April 1976 New York (US) J. ALLEN: "Synthesis of Speech from Unrestricted Text", seiten 433-442 * Absatz V: "Letter-to-Sound Rules" * *

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