Title:
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SINGING SYNTHESIS, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND ROBOT DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3864918
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To synthesize singing by utilizing playing data such as MIDI data.
SOLUTION: Inputted playing data are analyzed as musical sound information on the pitch and length of a sound and lyrics (S2, S3). The lyrics are imparted from the analyzed musical sound information to a tone sequence to generate singing data (S5). Before the singing data are passed to a speech synthesizer, the register of the singing data is compared with the register of the speech synthesizer and keys of the singing data and playing data are changed so that singing is included in the register of the speech synthesizer (S9-S12, S14).
Inventors:
Kenichiro Kobayashi
Application Number:
JP2003079149A
Publication Date:
January 10, 2007
Filing Date:
March 20, 2003
Export Citation:
Assignee:
ソニー株式会社
International Classes:
A63H5/00; G10H1/00; A63H11/00; A63H33/00; G10H7/00; G10L13/00; G10L13/02; G10L13/033; G10L13/04; (IPC1-7): G10H1/00; A63H5/00; A63H11/00; A63H33/00; G10H7/00; G10L13/00
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Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Akira Koike
Eiichi Tamura
Seiji Iga
Eiichi Tamura
Seiji Iga