HK1034129A1 - Method and apparatus for speech synthesis, dictionary organizing method for speech synthesis - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for speech synthesis, dictionary organizing method for speech synthesis

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HK1034129A1
HK1034129A1 HK01104509A HK01104509A HK1034129A1 HK 1034129 A1 HK1034129 A1 HK 1034129A1 HK 01104509 A HK01104509 A HK 01104509A HK 01104509 A HK01104509 A HK 01104509A HK 1034129 A1 HK1034129 A1 HK 1034129A1
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speech synthesis
dictionary
dictionary organizing
organizing
organizing method
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Osamu Kasai
Mizogushi Toshiyuki
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Konami Co Ltd
Konami Comp Entertainment
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G10MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10LSPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L13/00Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
    • G10L13/02Methods for producing synthetic speech; Speech synthesisers
    • G10L13/04Details of speech synthesis systems, e.g. synthesiser structure or memory management
    • G10L13/047Architecture of speech synthesisers
    • GPHYSICS
    • G10MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10LSPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L13/00Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
    • G10L13/08Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63FCARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F2300/00Features of games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions, e.g. on a television screen, showing representations related to the game
    • A63F2300/60Methods for processing data by generating or executing the game program
    • A63F2300/6063Methods for processing data by generating or executing the game program for sound processing

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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)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Machine Translation (AREA)
  • Document Processing Apparatus (AREA)
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