EP1501075A3 - Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms - Google Patents

Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms Download PDF

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EP1501075A3
EP1501075A3 EP04077723A EP04077723A EP1501075A3 EP 1501075 A3 EP1501075 A3 EP 1501075A3 EP 04077723 A EP04077723 A EP 04077723A EP 04077723 A EP04077723 A EP 04077723A EP 1501075 A3 EP1501075 A3 EP 1501075A3
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speech
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speech synthesis
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Geert Coorman
Mario De Brock
Filip Deprez
Justin Fackrell
Steven Leys
Peter Rutten
Jan Demoortel
Andre Schenk
Bert Van Coile
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Lernout and Hauspie Speech Products NV
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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
    • G10L13/06—Elementary speech units used in speech synthesisers; Concatenation rules
    • G10L13/07—Concatenation rules

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A high quality speech synthesizer in various embodiments concatenates speech waveforms referenced by a large speech database. Speech quality is further improved by speech unit selection and concatenation smoothing.
EP04077723A 1998-11-13 1999-11-12 Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms Expired - Lifetime EP1501075B1 (en)

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EP0608833A2 (en) * 1993-01-25 1994-08-03 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Method of and apparatus for performing time-scale modification of speech signals
EP0848372A2 (en) * 1996-12-10 1998-06-17 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Speech synthesizing system and redundancy-reduced waveform database therefor
US20020178006A1 (en) * 1998-07-31 2002-11-28 Hideo Suzuki Waveform forming device and method

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EP0608833A2 (en) * 1993-01-25 1994-08-03 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Method of and apparatus for performing time-scale modification of speech signals
EP0848372A2 (en) * 1996-12-10 1998-06-17 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Speech synthesizing system and redundancy-reduced waveform database therefor
US20020178006A1 (en) * 1998-07-31 2002-11-28 Hideo Suzuki Waveform forming device and method

Non-Patent Citations (1)

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BANGA E R ET AL: "SHAPE-INVARIANT PITCH-SYNCHRONOUS TEXT-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION", PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP),US,NEW YORK, IEEE, 1995, pages 656 - 659, XP000658079, ISBN: 0-7803-2432-3 *

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