EP1501075A3
Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms
Abstract
A high quality speech synthesizer in various embodiments concatenates speech waveforms referenced by a large speech database. Speech quality is further improved by speech unit selection and concatenation smoothing.
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| EP0608833A2 | Cites | European Patent Office (EPO) | Y | Search report | 5,6 |
| EP0848372A2 | Cites | European Patent Office (EPO) | A | Search report | 1-4 |
| US2002178006A1 | Cites | United States of America | E | Search report | 1-3 |
| BANGA E R ET AL: "SHAPE-INVARIANT PITCH-SYNCHRONOUS TEXT-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION", PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP),US,NEW YORK, IEEE, 1995, pages 656 - 659, XP000658079, ISBN: 0-7803-2432-3 | Non-patent | – | – | Search report | – |
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| DE69925932D1 | Germany | D1 | |
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| US7219060B2 | United States of America | B2 | |
| EP1501075A3This record | European Patent Office (EPO) | A3 | |
| EP1501075B1 | European Patent Office (EPO) | B1 | |
| DE69940747D1 | Germany | D1 |
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Numbers
- Publication
- 1501075
- Publication, DOCDB
- 1501075
- Publication, EPODOC
- EP1501075
- Application
- 4077723
- Application, DOCDB
- 04077723
- Application, EPODOC
- EP20040077723
Titles3
- German
- Sprachsynthese mittels Verknüpfung von Sprachwellenformen
- English
- Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms
- French
- Synthèse de la parole par concaténation de formes d'ondes de parole
Classification
- CPC, 1
- G10L13/07
- IPC, 2
- G10L13 06
- G10L13 07
Designated states1
- Contracting states, 1
- United Kingdom