JP2000075878A - 音声合成装置およびその方法ならびに記憶媒体 - Google Patents

音声合成装置およびその方法ならびに記憶媒体

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JP2000075878A
JP2000075878A JP10245951A JP24595198A JP2000075878A JP 2000075878 A JP2000075878 A JP 2000075878A JP 10245951 A JP10245951 A JP 10245951A JP 24595198 A JP24595198 A JP 24595198A JP 2000075878 A JP2000075878 A JP 2000075878A
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data
speech
penalty
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Yasuo Okuya
泰夫 奥谷
Masaaki Yamada
雅章 山田
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Canon Inc
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Canon Inc
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Priority to JP10245951A priority Critical patent/JP2000075878A/ja
Priority to US09/386,052 priority patent/US7031919B2/en
Priority to EP99306925A priority patent/EP0984426B1/en
Priority to DE69908723T priority patent/DE69908723T2/de
Publication of JP2000075878A publication Critical patent/JP2000075878A/ja
Publication of JP2000075878A5 publication Critical patent/JP2000075878A5/ja
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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)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Information Retrieval, Db Structures And Fs Structures Therefor (AREA)
JP10245951A 1998-08-31 1998-08-31 音声合成装置およびその方法ならびに記憶媒体 Pending JP2000075878A (ja)

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JP10245951A JP2000075878A (ja) 1998-08-31 1998-08-31 音声合成装置およびその方法ならびに記憶媒体
US09/386,052 US7031919B2 (en) 1998-08-31 1999-08-30 Speech synthesizing apparatus and method, and storage medium therefor
EP99306925A EP0984426B1 (en) 1998-08-31 1999-08-31 Speech synthesizing apparatus and method, and storage medium therefor
DE69908723T DE69908723T2 (de) 1998-08-31 1999-08-31 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Sprachsynthese, sowie Speichermedium

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EP (1) EP0984426B1 (enExample)
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DE (1) DE69908723T2 (enExample)

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US20030125949A1 (en) 2003-07-03
EP0984426B1 (en) 2003-06-11
US7031919B2 (en) 2006-04-18

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