Voice Synthesis Apparatus
First Claim
1. An apparatus for synthesizing a voice signal using a plurality of phonetic piece data each indicating a phonetic piece which contains at least two phoneme sections corresponding to different phonemes, the apparatus comprising;
- a phonetic piece adjustment part that forms a target section from a first phonetic piece and a second phonetic piece so as to connect the first phonetic piece and the second phonetic piece to each other such that the target section is formed of a rear phoneme section of the first phonetic piece corresponding to a consonant phoneme and a front phoneme section of the second phonetic piece corresponding to the consonant phoneme, and that carries out an expansion process for expanding the target section by a target time length to form an adjustment section such that a central part of the target section is expanded at an expansion rate higher than that of a front part and a rear part of the target section, to thereby create synthesized phonetic piece data of the adjustment section having the target time length and corresponding to the consonant phoneme; and
a voice synthesis part that creates a voice signal from the synthesized phonetic piece data created by the phonetic piece adjustment part.
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Abstract
A voice signal is synthesized using a plurality of phonetic piece data each indicating a phonetic piece containing at least two phoneme sections corresponding to different phonemes. In the apparatus, a phonetic piece adjustor forms a target section from first and second phonetic pieces so as to connect the first and second phonetic pieces to each other such that the target section includes a rear phoneme section of the first piece and a front phoneme section of the second piece, and expands the target section by a target time length to form an adjustment section such that a central part is expanded at an expansion rate higher than that of front and rear parts of the target section, to thereby create synthesized phonetic piece data having the target time length. A voice synthesizer creates a voice signal from the synthesized phonetic piece data.
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1. An apparatus for synthesizing a voice signal using a plurality of phonetic piece data each indicating a phonetic piece which contains at least two phoneme sections corresponding to different phonemes, the apparatus comprising;
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a phonetic piece adjustment part that forms a target section from a first phonetic piece and a second phonetic piece so as to connect the first phonetic piece and the second phonetic piece to each other such that the target section is formed of a rear phoneme section of the first phonetic piece corresponding to a consonant phoneme and a front phoneme section of the second phonetic piece corresponding to the consonant phoneme, and that carries out an expansion process for expanding the target section by a target time length to form an adjustment section such that a central part of the target section is expanded at an expansion rate higher than that of a front part and a rear part of the target section, to thereby create synthesized phonetic piece data of the adjustment section having the target time length and corresponding to the consonant phoneme; and a voice synthesis part that creates a voice signal from the synthesized phonetic piece data created by the phonetic piece adjustment part. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A machine readable storage medium containing a program executable by a computer to perform a method of synthesizing a voice signal using a plurality of phonetic piece data each indicating a phonetic piece which contains at least two phoneme sections corresponding to different phonemes, the method comprising;
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forming a target section from a first phonetic piece and a second phonetic piece so as to connect the first phonetic piece and the second phonetic piece to each other such that the target section is formed of a rear phoneme section of the first phonetic piece corresponding to a consonant phoneme and a front phoneme section of the second phonetic piece corresponding to the consonant phoneme; carrying out an expansion process for expanding the target section by a target time length to form an adjustment section such that a central part of the target section is expanded at an expansion rate higher than that of a front part and a rear part of the target section, to thereby create synthesized phonetic piece data of the adjustment section having the target time length and corresponding to the consonant phoneme; and creating a voice signal from the synthesized phonetic piece.
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