Speech synthesizer, audio watermarking information detection apparatus, speech synthesizing method, audio watermarking information detection method, and computer program product

• US 9,870,779 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2015
• Issued: 01/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tachibana, Kentaro, Kagoshima, Takehiko, Tamura, Masatsune, Morita, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan, Vijay B
• Application Number:
  US14/801,152
• Publication Number:
  US 20150325232A1
• Time in Patent Office: 915 Days
• Field of Search: 704258, 704273, 704208, 704206, 704210, 704219, 704223, 704268, 704262, 704266, 704278, 704261, 704211
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/02 Methods for producing synthetic speech; Speech synthesisers
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/033 Voice editing, e.g. manipulating the voice of the synthesiser
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/012 Comfort noise or silence coding
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/018 Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal

Abstract

According to an embodiment, a speech synthesizer includes a source generator, a phase modulator, and a vocal tract filter unit. The source generator generates a source signal by using a fundamental frequency sequence and a pulse signal. The phase modulator modulates, with respect to the source signal generated by the source generator, a phase of the pulse signal at each pitch mark based on audio watermarking information. The vocal tract filter unit generates a speech signal by using a spectrum parameter sequence with respect to the source signal in which the phase of the pulse signal is modulated by the phase modulator.

Claims

1. A speech synthesizer comprising:

a source generator configured to generate a source signal by using a fundamental frequency sequence and a pulse signal;

a phase modulator configured to modulate, with respect to the source signal generated by the source generator, a phase of the pulse signal at each pitch mark based on audio watermarking information; and

a vocal tract filter unit configured to generate a speech signal by using a spectrum parameter sequence with respect to the source signal in which the phase of the pulse signal is modulated by the phase modulator.

2. The speech synthesizer according to claim 1, further comprising:

a noise source generator configured to generate a noise source signal by using a frame, which includes an unvoiced fundamental frequency sequence, and a noise signal; and

an adder configured to add the noise source signal to the source signal in which the phase of the pulse signal is modulated by the phase modulator, wherein

the source generator generates the source signal with respect to a frame including a voiced fundamental frequency sequence, and

the vocal tract filter unit generates a speech signal with respect to the source signal to which the noise source signal is added by the adder.

3. The speech synthesizer according to claim 2, further comprising

a plurality of different bandpass filters configured to control bands and intensity of the source signal generated by the source generator and the noise source signal generated by the noise source generator, wherein

the phase modulator modulates the phase of the pulse signal with respect to the source signal the band and the intensity of which are controlled by the plurality of different bandpass filters, and

the adder adds the noise source signal, the band and the intensity of which are controlled by the plurality of different bandpass filters, to the source signal in which the phase of the pulse signal is modulated by the phase modulator.

4. The speech synthesizer according to claim 1, wherein the phase modulator changes a phase modulation rule in each predetermined period of time based on key information used in the digital watermarking information.

5. The speech synthesizer according to claim 4, wherein the key information includes a table in which a phase modulation rule is prescribed in each predetermined period of time.

6. The speech synthesizer according to claim 1, wherein the phase modulator modulates the phase of the pulse signal according to a phase modulation rule to change phase values of a plurality of frequency bins or bands in the source signal.

7. The speech synthesizer according to claim 1, wherein the phase modulator modulates the phase of the pulse signal according to a phase modulation rule to change, into a predetermined value, a ratio between two representative phase values calculated from phase values in two bands including a plurality of frequency bins in the source signal.

8. The speech synthesizer according to claim 1, wherein the phase modulator modulates the phase of the pulse signal according to a phase modulation rule to change, into a predetermined value, a difference between two representative phase values calculated from phase values in two bands including a plurality of frequency bins in the source signal.

9. A speech synthesizing method comprising:

generating a source signal by using a fundamental frequency sequence and a pulse signal;

modulating, with respect to the generated source signal, a phase of the pulse signal at each pitch mark based on audio watermarking information; and

generating a speech signal by using a spectrum parameter sequence with respect to the source signal in which the phase of the pulse signal is modulated.

10. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium for recording program to cause a computer to execute a speech synthesizing method in a computer, the method comprising the steps of:

generating a source signal by using a fundamental frequency sequence and a pulse signal;

modulating, with respect to the generated source signal, a phase of the pulse signal at each pitch mark based on audio watermarking information; and

generating a speech signal by using a spectrum parameter sequence with respect to the source signal in which the phase of the pulse signal is modulated.