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Method for synthesizing voiceless consonants

  • US 6,112,178 A
  • Filed: 03/05/1999
  • Issued: 08/29/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/03/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for synthesising speech using concatenation and Hanning-windows, in which a synthetic waveform is formed by concatenation of selected parts of diphones or polyphons of recorded human speech, said selected parts being out-windowed with a Hanning-window and copied into selected locations in the synthetic waveform, characterised in that said method is adapted to synthesise unvoiced consonants and includes the steps of palindromically copying suitably selected parts of a waveform of said recorded diphones or polyphones to form a synthesized waveform for said unvoiced consonant using concatenation.

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