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7613611 Method and apparatus for vocal-cord signal recognition  
Provided is a method and an apparatus for vocal-cord signal recognition. A signal processing unit receives and digitalizes a vocal cord signal, and a noise removing unit which channel noise...
7567903 Low latency real-time vocal tract length normalization  
A method and apparatus for performing speech recognition are provided. A Vocal Tract Length Normalized acoustic model for a speaker is generated from training data. Speech recognition is performed...
7529672 Speech synthesis using concatenation of speech waveforms  
A method of synthesizing a speech signal by providing a first speech unit signal having an end interval and a second speech unit signal having a front interval, wherein at least some of the periods...
7457752 Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesizing device  
Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesizing device, notably of the type where the emotion is conveyed by a sound, having at least one input parameter whose value...
7398213 Method and system for diagnosing pathological phenomenon using a voice signal  
The present invention relates to a method and system for diagnosing pathological phenomenon using a voice signal. In one embodiment, the existence of at least one pathological phenomena is...
7365749 Computer readable medium for modifying an animation wire frame  
An animation wireframe is modified with three-dimensional (3D) range and color data having a corresponding shape surface. The animation wireframe is vertically scaled based on distances between...
7330813 Speech processing apparatus and mobile communication terminal  
A speech processing apparatus able to enhance formants more naturally, wherein a speech analyzing unit analyzes an input speech signal to find LPCs and converts the LPCs to LSPs, a speech decoding...
7233900 Word sequence output device  
The present invention relates to a word sequence output device in which emotional synthetic speech can be output. The device outputs emotional synthetic speech. A text generating unit 31 ...
7225129 Visual display methods for in computer-animated speech production models  
A method of modeling speech distinctions within computer-animated talking heads that utilize the manipulation of speech production articulators for selected speech segments. Graphical...
7219064 Legged robot, legged robot behavior control method, and storage medium  
To provide a robot which autonomously forms and performs an action plan in response to external factors without direct command input from an operator. When reading a story printed in a book or...
7184958 Speech synthesis method  
A speech synthesis method subjects a reference speech signal to windowing to extract a speech pitch wave having a window function of a window length double a pitch period of the reference speech...
7162417 Speech synthesizing method and apparatus for altering amplitudes of voiced and invoiced portions  
An amplitude altering magnification (r) applied to sub-phoneme units of a voiced portion and an amplitude altering magnification s to be applied to sub-phoneme units of an unvoiced portion are...
7113909 Voice synthesizing method and voice synthesizer performing the same  
A stereotypical sentence is synthesized into a voice of an arbitrary speech style. A third party is able to prepare prosody data and a user of a terminal device having a voice synthesizing part can...
7085718 Method for speaker-identification using application speech  
It is suggested to include application speech (AS) into the set of identification speech data (ISD) for training a speaker-identification process so as to make possible a reduction of the set of...
7082395 Signal injection coupling into the human vocal tract for robust audible and inaudible voice recognition  
A means and method are provided for enhancing or replacing the natural excitation of the human vocal tract by artificial excitation means, wherein the artificially created acoustics present...
6993484 Speech synthesizing method and apparatus  
An amplitude altering magnification (r) applied to sub-phoneme units of a voiced portion and an amplitude altering magnification s to be applied to sub-phoneme units of an unvoiced portion are...
6990451 Method and apparatus for recording prosody for fully concatenated speech  
A method of making a digital voice library utilized for converting text to concatenated voice in accordance with a set of playback rules includes generating a complex tone that reflects a...
6970820 Voice personalization of speech synthesizer  
The speech synthesizer is personalized to sound like or mimic the speech characteristics of an individual speaker. The individual speaker provides a quantity of enrollment data, which can be...
6950799 Speech converter utilizing preprogrammed voice profiles  
A speech processing system modifies various aspects of input speech according to a user-selected one of various preprogrammed voice fonts. Initially, the speech converter receives a formants signal...
6810379 Client/server architecture for text-to-speech synthesis  
A client/server text-to-speech synthesis system and method divides the method optimally between client and server. The server stores large databases for pronunciation analysis, prosody generation,...
6801894 Speech synthesizer that interrupts audio output to provide pause/silence between words  
A speech synthesizer includes a data memory having a plurality of address areas, which stores a plurality of phases in the address areas and an address designating circuit designating one of the...
6477496 Signal synthesis by decoding subband scale factors from one audio signal and subband samples from different one  
A method, system and product are provided for synthesizing sound using encoded audio signals having a plurality of frequency subbands, each subband having a scale factor and sample data associated...
6463412 High performance voice transformation apparatus and method  
A high performance voice transformation apparatus and method is provided in which voice input is transformed into a symbolic representation of phonemes in the voice input. The symbolic...
6453287 Apparatus and quality enhancement algorithm for mixed excitation linear predictive (MELP) and other speech coders  
A system and method for enhancing the speech quality of the mixed excitation linear predictive (MELP) coder and other low bit-rate speech coders. The system and method employ a plosive...
6347298 Computer apparatus for text-to-speech synthesizer dictionary reduction  
A computerized apparatus for reducing the size of a dictionary used in a text-to-speech synthesis system are provided. In an initial phase, the method and apparatus determine if entries in the...
6317713 Speech synthesis based on cricothyroid and cricoid modeling  
Sound generating parameters are used for outputting fundamental frequency and a command regarding prosody, and a sound source generator. The sound generation device further includes use of an...
6208968 Computer method and apparatus for text-to-speech synthesizer dictionary reduction  
A computerized method and apparatus for reducing the size of a dictionary used in a text-to-speech synthesis system are provided. In an initial phase, the method and apparatus determine if entries...
6195632 Extracting formant-based source-filter data for coding and synthesis employing cost function and inverse filtering  
An iterative formant analysis, based on minimizing the arc-length of various curves, and under various filter constraints estimates formant frequencies with desirable properties for text-to-speech...
6122616 Method and apparatus for diphone aliasing  
The present invention improves upon electronic speech synthesis using pre-recorded segments of speech to fill in for other missing segments of speech. The formalized aliasing approach of the...
6101469 Formant shift-compensated sound synthesizer and method of operation thereof  
For use in a synthesizer having a wave source that produces a periodic wave, frequency shifting circuitry for frequency-shifting the periodic wave and waveshaping circuitry for transforming the...
6044345 Method and system for coding human speech for subsequent reproduction thereof  
Human speech is coded by singling out from a transfer function of the speech, all poles that are unrelated to any particular resonance of a human vocal tract model. All other poles are maintained....
6012028 Text to speech conversion system and method that distinguishes geographical names based upon the present position  
The text to speech conversion system distinguishes geographical names based upon the present position and includes a text input unit for inputting text data, a position coordinator input unit for...
6006187 Computer prosody user interface  
The present invention discloses a computer prosody user interface operable to visually tailor the prosody of a text to be uttered by a text-to-speech system. The prosody user interface, permits...
5995932 Feedback modification for accent reduction  
A training system used while a person is speaking uses a feedback modification technique to reduce accents. As the speaker is speaking, the system feeds back to the speaker the speaker's speech in...
5983178 Speaker clustering apparatus based on feature quantities of vocal-tract configuration and speech recognition apparatus therewith  
A speaker clustering apparatus generates HMMs for clusters based on feature quantities of a vocal-tract configuration of speech waveform data, and a speech recognition apparatus provided with the...
5905970 Speech coding device for estimating an error of power envelopes of synthetic and input speech signals  
In a speech coding device for coding an input speech with an AbS (Analysis by Synthesis) system and one of a forward type and a backward type configuration, a vocal tract prediction coefficient...
5890118 Interpolating between representative frame waveforms of a prediction error signal for speech synthesis  
A speech synthesis apparatus includes; a memory for storing a plurality of typical waveforms corresponding to a plurality of frames, the typical waveforms each previously obtained by extracting in...
5876213 Karaoke apparatus detecting register of live vocal to tune harmony vocal  
A karaoke apparatus is constructed to perform a karaoke accompaniment part and a karaoke harmony part for accompanying a live vocal part. A pickup device collects a singing voice of the live vocal...
5826221 Vocal tract prediction coefficient coding and decoding circuitry capable of adaptively selecting quantized values and interpolation values  
In vocal tract prediction coefficient coding and decoding circuitry, a vocal tract prediction coefficient converter/quantizer transforms vocal tract prediction coefficients of consecutive subframes...
5806037 Voice synthesis system utilizing a transfer function  
A voice synthesis system is fundamentally configured by a sound-source model, which simulates human voices and the like, and a voice-path model which simulates properties of voice paths between...
5758319 Method and system for limiting the number of words searched by a voice recognition system  
A method and system for limiting the number of words searched by a voice recognition system having a predetermined language model containing a first plurality of words corresponding to all words...
5750912 Formant converting apparatus modifying singing voice to emulate model voice  
In a voice modifying apparatus for modifying a singing voice to emulate a model voice, a microphone collects the singing voice created by a singer. An analyzer sequentially analyzes the collected...
5748838 Method of speech representation and synthesis using a set of high level constrained parameters  
A speech synthesizing method which uses glottal modelling to determine and transform ten or fewer high level parameters into thirty-nine low level parameters using mapping relations. These...
5715362 Method of transmitting and receiving coded speech  
A method of transmitting and receiving coded speech, in which method samples are taken of a speech signal and reflection coefficients are calculated from these samples. In order to minimize the...
5704007 Utilization of multiple voice sources in a speech synthesizer  
Utilization of one or more voice sources in a speech synthesizer to provide improved synthetic speech. Having a speech synthesizer with the capability to select among and between a multiplicity of...
5701393 System and method for real time sinusoidal signal generation using waveguide resonance oscillators  
Sinusoidal waveforms are synthesized using one or more waveguide resonance oscillators. The waveguide resonance oscillator has two digital delay elements coupled to a digital waveguide junction....
5682501 Speech synthesis system  
A speech synthesis unit comprises a text processor which breaks down text into phonemes, a prosodic processor which assigns properties such as length and pitch to the phonemes based on context, and...
5659663 Integrated automatically synchronized speech/melody synthesizer with programmable mixing capability  
A synthesizer includes a controller which generates an address signal in response to a trigger code corresponding to a sequence of a synthesis of a plurality of basic speech sections; a memory for...
5659658 Method for converting speech using lossless tube models of vocals tracts  
A method of converting speech, in which reflection coefficients are calculated from a speech signal of a speaker. From these coefficients, characteristics of cross-sectional areas of cylinder...
5633983 Systems and methods for performing phonemic synthesis  
Systems and methods for performing phonemic synthesis which operate to generate an output data set of acoustic B parameters from a received textual data set wherein the output data set represents...
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