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- Patents > 2008-10-02 > SECTION G PHYSICS > MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS > SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION
Prosody-pattern generating apparatus, speech synthesizing apparatus, and computer program product and method thereof
Abstract
Normalization parameters are generated at a normalization-parameter generating unit by calculating the mean values and the standard deviations of an initial prosody pattern and a prosody pattern of a training sentence of a speech corpus. Then, the variance range or variance width of the initial prosody pattern is normalized at the prosody-pattern normalizing unit in accordance with the normalization parameters. As a result, a prosody pattern similar to speech of human beings and improved in naturalness can be generated with a small amount of calculation.
Filed on: 2008-02-08; Application Number: 12068600