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RECOGNITION DICTIONARY CREATING DEVICE, VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE, AND VOICE SYNTHESIZER

  • US 20120203553A1
  • Filed: 01/22/2010
  • Published: 08/09/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A recognition dictionary creating device comprising:

  • an acoustic analysis unit for performing an acoustic analysis on a voice signal of an inputted voice to output a time series of acoustic features;

    an acoustic standard pattern storage unit for storing acoustic standard patterns showing standard acoustic features for each language;

    an acoustic data matching unit for comparing the time series of acoustic features of said inputted voice which are inputted thereto from said acoustic analysis unit with the acoustic standard patterns stored in said acoustic standard pattern storage unit to create a phoneme label string of said inputted voice;

    a user dictionary storage unit for storing a user dictionary in which said phoneme label string of said inputted voice created by said acoustic data matching unit is registered;

    a language storage unit for storing information showing a language of the phoneme label string which is registered in said user dictionary;

    a language switching unit for switching from a language to another language;

    a mapping table storage unit for storing a mapping table in which a correspondence between phoneme labels in different languages is defined; and

    a phoneme label string converting unit for referring to the mapping table stored in said mapping table storage unit to convert the phoneme label string registered in said user dictionary and expressed in the language shown by the information stored in said language storage unit into a phoneme label string expressed in the other language which said language switching unit has switched.

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