Voice selection supporting device, voice selection method, and computer-readable recording medium
First Claim
1. A voice selection supporting device comprising:
- a memory; and
one or more processors configured to function as an acceptance unit, an analysis unit, an evaluation unit, a candidate presentation unit and a voice synthesis unit, whereinthe acceptance unit accepts input of a text;
the analysis unit performs a morphological analysis of the text and obtains an attribute of the text by referring to text analysis knowledge, the text analysis knowledge associating attributes with results of the morphological analysis for texts respectively;
the evaluation unit evaluates respective similarities between the voice attributes for the voice dictionaries and the obtained attribute of the text, each of the voice attributes indicating voice characteristics of a speaker for a voice synthesis, each of the voice dictionaries corresponding to the speaker for the voice synthesis;
the candidate presentation unit presents, based on the similarities, a candidate of the speaker from the voice dictionaries suitable for the text; and
the voice synthesis unit reads the text corresponding to the candidate of the speaker into synthesized voices.
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Abstract
A voice selection supporting device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an acceptance unit that accepts input of a text, an analysis knowledge storage unit that stores therein text analysis knowledge to be used for characteristic analysis for the input text, an analysis unit that analyzes a characteristic of the text by referring to the text analysis knowledge, a voice attribute storage unit that stores therein a voice attribute of each voice dictionary, an evaluation unit that evaluates similarity between the voice attribute of the voice dictionary and the characteristic of the text, and a candidate presentation unit that presents, based on the similarity, a candidate for the voice dictionary suitable for the text.
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6 Claims
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1. A voice selection supporting device comprising:
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a memory; and one or more processors configured to function as an acceptance unit, an analysis unit, an evaluation unit, a candidate presentation unit and a voice synthesis unit, wherein the acceptance unit accepts input of a text; the analysis unit performs a morphological analysis of the text and obtains an attribute of the text by referring to text analysis knowledge, the text analysis knowledge associating attributes with results of the morphological analysis for texts respectively; the evaluation unit evaluates respective similarities between the voice attributes for the voice dictionaries and the obtained attribute of the text, each of the voice attributes indicating voice characteristics of a speaker for a voice synthesis, each of the voice dictionaries corresponding to the speaker for the voice synthesis; the candidate presentation unit presents, based on the similarities, a candidate of the speaker from the voice dictionaries suitable for the text; and the voice synthesis unit reads the text corresponding to the candidate of the speaker into synthesized voices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A voice selection method employed in a voice selection supporting device comprising the steps of:
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accepting input of a text; performing a morphological analysis of the text and obtaining an attribute of the text by referring to text analysis knowledge, the text analysis knowledge associating attributes with results of the morphological analysis for texts respectively; evaluating respective similarities between voice attributes for voice dictionaries and the obtained attribute of the text, each of the voice attributes indicating voice characteristics of a speaker for a voice synthesis, each of the voice dictionaries corresponding to the speaker for the voice synthesis; presenting, based on the similarities, a candidate of the speaker from the voice dictionaries suitable for the text; and reading the text corresponding to the candidate of the speaker into synthesized voices.
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6. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a computer program, the computer program causing a computer to execute a voice selection method, the method comprising:
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accepting input of a text; performing a morphological analysis of the text and obtaining an attribute of the text by referring to text analysis knowledge, the text analysis knowledge associating attributes with results of the morphological analysis for texts respectively; evaluating respective similarities between voice attributes for voice dictionaries and the obtained attribute of the text, each of the voice attributes indicating voice characteristics of a speaker for a voice synthesis, each of the voice dictionaries corresponding to the speaker for the voice synthesis; presenting, based on the similarities, a candidate of the speaker from the voice dictionaries suitable for the text; and reading the text corresponding to the candidate of the speaker into synthesized voices.
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