(19)
(11) EP 0 051 462 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
09.06.1982 Bulletin 1982/23

(43) Date of publication A2:
12.05.1982 Bulletin 1982/19

(21) Application number: 81305149

(22) Date of filing: 29.10.1981
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB

(30) Priority: 03.11.1980 US 203042

(71) Applicant: GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORPORATION
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(72) Inventor:
  • McLaughlin, Philip T.
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(54) Speech processor


(57) A system and apparatus for generating human speech or other complex sounds from a digital command signal and using a hybrid synthesis technique comprises a digital. fixed repertoire speech processor (10) which includes a first circuit (12) for modeling the behaviour of the human vocal tract and a second circuit (11) for controlling the behaviour of the modeling circuit (12).
The processor may advantageously be implemented on a single VLSI integrated circuit chip.






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