GB1224137A - Speech synthesis system - Google Patents

Speech synthesis system

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GB1224137A
GB1224137A GB2199269A GB2199269A GB1224137A GB 1224137 A GB1224137 A GB 1224137A GB 2199269 A GB2199269 A GB 2199269A GB 2199269 A GB2199269 A GB 2199269A GB 1224137 A GB1224137 A GB 1224137A
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vowel
unit
consonant
phoneme
units
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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; 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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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Computational Linguistics (AREA)
  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology (AREA)
  • Human Computer Interaction (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Acoustics & Sound (AREA)
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Abstract

1,224,137. Speech synthesizer. NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE PUBLIC CORP. 30 April, 1969 [1 May, 1968], No. 21992/69. Heading H4R. Synthetic speech is built up by the concatenation of phonemic units each of which begins and ends with a vowel, e.g. a vowel, consonant, vowel unit or a vowel-vowel unit. Since the acoustic features of a vowel vary relatively slowly phonemic units may more easily be joined in the mid portion of a vowel. For a word which begins or ends with a consonant a phoneme unit which comprises the same vowel before and after the required consonant is used and the redundant vowel is removed. Nasal sounds may also be considered as vowels and appear at the beginning and/or end of a phoneme unit. The apparatus may include stored information to modify the stored phoneme units to produce the effect of different accents or talkers, e.g. male and female voices.
GB2199269A 1968-05-01 1969-04-30 Speech synthesis system Expired GB1224137A (en)

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JP2878168A JPS4949241B1 (en) 1968-05-01 1968-05-01

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DE (1) DE1922170B2 (en)
FR (1) FR2007620A1 (en)
GB (1) GB1224137A (en)
SE (1) SE355887B (en)

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DE1922170B2 (en) 1973-11-08
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JPS4949241B1 (en) 1974-12-26
FR2007620A1 (en) 1970-01-09

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