EP 1777697 A2 20070425 - Method for speech synthesis without prosody modification
Title (en)
Method for speech synthesis without prosody modification
Title (de)
Verfahren zur Sprachsynthese ohne Änderung der Prosodie
Title (fr)
Procédé de synthèse vocale sans modification de prosodie
Publication
Application
Priority
- EP 01128765 A 20011203
- US 25116700 P 20001204
- US 85052701 A 20010507
Abstract (en)
A speech synthesizer is provided that concatenates stored samples of speech units without modifying the prosody of the samples. The present invention is able to achieve a high level of naturalness in synthesized speech with a carefully designed training speech corpus by storing samples based on the prosodic and phonetic context in which they occur. In particular, some embodiments of the present invention limit the training text to those sentences that will produce the most frequent sets of prosodic contexts for each speech unit. Further embodiments of the present invention also provide a multi-tier selection mechanism for selecting a set of samples that will produce the most natural sounding speech.
IPC 8 full level
G10L 13/07 (2013.01); G10L 13/04 (2013.01)
CPC (source: EP)
G10L 13/07 (2013.01); G10L 13/04 (2013.01)
Citation (applicant)
- US 6064960 A 20000516 - BELLEGARDA JEROME R [US], et al
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- TIEN YING FUNG; HELEN M. MENG: "Concatenating Syllables for Response Generation in Spoken Language Applications", IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 5 June 2000 (2000-06-05), pages 933 - 936
- HUNT ET AL.: "Unit Selection in a Concatenative Speech Synthesis System using a Large Speech Database", 1996 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING - PROCEEDINGS (ICASSP, vol. 1, no. 21, 7 May 1996 (1996-05-07), pages 373 - 376, XP002133444, DOI: doi:10.1109/ICASSP.1996.541110
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 1777697 A2 20070425; EP 1777697 A3 20080618; EP 1777697 B1 20130320
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 07002565 A 20011203