Global Patent Index - EP 1159738 A1

EP 1159738 A1 20011205 - SPEECH SYNTHESIZER BASED ON VARIABLE RATE SPEECH CODING

Title (en)

SPEECH SYNTHESIZER BASED ON VARIABLE RATE SPEECH CODING

Title (de)

SPRACHSYNTHETISIERER AUF DER BASIS VON SPRACHKODIERUNG MIT VERÄNDERLICHER BIT-RATE

Title (fr)

SYNTHETISEUR VOCAL BASE SUR UN CODAGE VOCAL A DEBIT VARIABLE

Publication

EP 1159738 A1 20011205 (EN)

Application

EP 00914511 A 20000204

Priority

  • US 0002900 W 20000204
  • US 24660599 A 19990208

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO0046795A1] An apparatus and method for speech synthesis based on variable rate vocoding is presented. An input speech signal is encoded by a variable rate vocoder (202), and the parameters of the speech signal are stored in memory. To synthesize speech, a variable rate decoder (208) decodes the parameters to produce speech samples. A codec (210) converts the speech samples from a digital signal to an analog signal, which is broadcast through a speaker (212).

IPC 1-7

G10L 19/00

IPC 8 full level

G10L 19/18 (2013.01); G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 13/06 (2013.01); G10L 19/00 (2013.01); G10L 19/22 (2013.01); G10L 19/24 (2013.01); H03M 7/36 (2006.01); H04J 13/00 (2011.01)

IPC 8 main group level

G10L (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP KR)

G10L 19/04 (2013.01 - EP); G10L 19/18 (2013.01 - KR); G10L 19/24 (2013.01 - EP KR)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 0046795A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 0046795 A1 20000810; WO 0046795 A9 20011018; AT E322731 T1 20060415; AU 3589100 A 20000825; CN 1212604 C 20050727; CN 1347548 A 20020501; DE 60027140 D1 20060518; DE 60027140 T2 20070111; EP 1159738 A1 20011205; EP 1159738 B1 20060405; ES 2263459 T3 20061216; HK 1042980 A1 20020830; HK 1042980 B 20051223; JP 2002536693 A 20021029; JP 2010092059 A 20100422; JP 4503853 B2 20100714; KR 100648872 B1 20061124; KR 20020012157 A 20020215

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 0002900 W 20000204; AT 00914511 T 20000204; AU 3589100 A 20000204; CN 00803589 A 20000204; DE 60027140 T 20000204; EP 00914511 A 20000204; ES 00914511 T 20000204; HK 02104772 A 20020627; JP 2000597796 A 20000204; JP 2009250670 A 20091030; KR 20017009887 A 20010804