Synthesis of speech from code signals

• US 3,158,685 A
• Filed: 05/04/1961
• Issued: 11/24/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John L. Kelly Jr, Louis J. Gerstman
• Original Assignee: John L. Kelly Jr, Louis J. Gerstman
• Inventors: Gerstman, Louis J., Kelly, John L. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US04/107,697
• Time in Patent Office: 1,300 Days
• US Class Current: 704/260
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/07 Concatenation rules

Claims

1. APPARATUS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ARTIFICIAL SPEECH-LIKE SOUNDS WHICH COMPRISES, A SOURCE OF SPEECH PHONEME REPRESENTATIONS ORDERED ACCORDING TO A DESIRED PHONETIC SEQUENCE, MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY ANALYZING SELECTED SEQUENCES OF SAID PHONEME REPRESENTATIONS TO PRODUCE A CODE SIGNAL FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL PHONEME IN SAID SEQUENCE AND FOR THE VOWEL-CONSONANT STRUCTURE OF SAID PHONEME SEQUENCE ASSOCIATED WITH EACH INIDIVIDUAL PHONEME, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID CODE SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF SUCCESSIVE PHONEMES AND ASSOCIATED VOWEL-CONSONANT STRUCTURES FOR DEVELOPING A SET OF SPEECH DEFINING SIGNALS WHICH TOGETHER SPECIFY THE ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS OF SAID SEQUENCE OF PHONEMES AND THE TRANSITIONS BETWEEN PHONEMES AS A FUNCTION OF TIME, AND SYNTHESIZER MEANS CONTINUOUSLY SUPPLIED WITH ALL OF SAID SPEECH DEFINING SIGNALS FOR GENERATING ARTIFICIAL SPEECH-LIKE SOUNDS.