Title:
SPEECH SYNTHESIZER
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3589972
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a user-friendly speech synthesizer which controls rhythm flexibley by suppressing the increase of the storage capacity of a memory storing a word dictionary and using an emphatic style and an emphatic word.
SOLUTION: A language analysis part 102 in this speech synthesizer is provided with a vocabulary analysis part 103 which deletes and replaces characters unnecessary for language analysis from an inputted composition, and divides the inputted composition into sentences, a morphemic analyzing part 104 which divides the sentence into words by referring to the word dictionary 106 storing only neutral words by using a notation neutralization rule 107 which is a rule to convert emphasized words into neutral words, and an emphasis notation processing part 109 which modifies the readings of emphasized words converted into neutral words by referring to a reading modification rule, about the divided words, and modifies the rhythms of the words into emphasized rhythms by referring to a rhythm modification rule.
Inventors:
Eiji Komatsu
Application Number:
JP2000312354A
Publication Date:
November 17, 2004
Filing Date:
October 12, 2000
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
G06F17/27; G10L13/02; G10L13/06; G10L13/08; G10L13/10; (IPC1-7): G10L13/08; G06F17/27
Domestic Patent References:
| JP2000163418A | ||||
| JP9062286A | ||||
| JP7181992A | ||||
| JP4119469A |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kenji Onishi
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