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Singing voice synthesizing apparatus, singing voice synthesizing method and program for singing voice synthesizing

  • US 20030159568A1
  • Filed: 02/27/2003
  • Published: 08/28/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A singing voice synthesizing apparatus, comprising:

  • a storage device that stores singing voice information for synthesizing a singing voice;

    a phoneme database that stores articulation data of a transition part that includes an articulation for a transition from one phoneme to another phoneme and stationary data of a long sound part that includes stationary part where one phoneme is stably pronounced;

    a selecting device that selects data stored in the phoneme database in accordance with the singing voice information;

    a first outputting device that outputs a characteristic parameter of the transition part by extracting the characteristic parameter of the transition part from the articulation data selected by the selecting device; and

    a second outputting device that obtains the articulation data before and after the stationary data of a long sound part selected by the selecting device, generates a characteristic parameter of the long sound part by interpolating the obtained two articulation data and outputs the generated characteristic parameter of the long sound part.

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