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5546500 Arrangement for increasing the comprehension of speech when translating speech from a first language to a second language  
An arrangement for improved speech comprehension in artificial translation of one language to a second language. The arrangement comprises an analysis unit which carries out an analysis of duration...
5544278 Pitch post-filter  
A filter utilizes future and past information for at least some of the subframes. Specifically, the filter receives a frame of synthesized speech and, for each subframe of the frame of synthesized...
5524173 Process and device for musical and vocal dynamic sound synthesis by non-linear distortion and amplitude modulation  
A process and a device for the musical and vocal dynamic sound synthesis of formants associated with a fundamental sound. To produce a formant, a wave form is generated with is the sum of several...
5524172 Processing device for speech synthesis by addition of overlapping wave forms  
A process of speech synthesis by the domain overlap-addition of elements stored in a dictionary as waveforms, comprises supplying a sequence of phoneme codes and respective prosodic information,...
5490234 Waveform blending technique for text-to-speech system  
A concatenator for a first digital frame with a second digital frame, such as the ending and beginning of adjacent diphone strings being concatenated to form speech is based on determining an...
5479564 Method and apparatus for manipulating pitch and/or duration of a signal  
Method and apparatus for manipulating an input signal (e.g. an audio (equivalent) signal) to obtain an output signal having a different pitch and/or duration. The method includes (a) positioning a...
5475796 Pitch pattern generation apparatus  
A pitch pattern defining intonation for a text-to-speech system is generated in accordance with a part of speech (e.g., noun, verb, adjective, adverb, etc.) of each word which can be determined...
5400434 Voice source for synthetic speech system  
The voice source for the synthetic speech system is human generated speech waveforms that are inverse filtered to produce glottal waveforms representing larynx sound. These glottal waveforms are...
5388221 Adaptive digital audio interpolation system  
A transition signal detector switches the processing of a digital audio signal between a frequency optimized filter for normal operation and a transition optimized filter when a transition...
5325462 System and method for speech synthesis employing improved formant composition  
A method, system and process to improve the formant composition in a speech synthesis system so that the formants are more intelligible. The system employs a process in the memory of a processor to...
5235124 Musical accompaniment playing apparatus having phoneme memory for chorus voices  
A musical accompaniment playing apparatus comprises a MIDI sound source, a phoneme information memory, a playing information memory, a control means, a mixing means and a sound output means. When a...
5212731 Apparatus for providing sentence-final accents in synthesized american english speech  
A synthetic voice system which can convert typed text to speech calculates the intonation presented by the input text. The system utilizes a pitch (F0) module to calculate an F0 value for the...
5133010 Method and apparatus for synthesizing speech without voicing or pitch information  
A channel bank speech synthesizer for reconstructing speech from externally-generated acoustic feature information without using externally-generated voicing or pitch information is disclosed. An...
5038377 ROM circuit for reducing sound data  
A voice synthesis system includes the use of a group of representative sound data for synthesizing voice data. A ROM circuit in the system includes a multilevel address system that stores starting...
5027409 Apparatus for electronically outputting a voice and method for outputting a voice  
An apparatus for audibly outputting a series of numbers represented by words and divided into blocks includes a voice data memory group for storing voice data. The voice data memory group includes...
5018199 Code-conversion method and apparatus for analyzing and synthesizing human speech  
Human speech is analyzed and a feature parameter is extracted from the human speech. The feature parameter is quantized and a quantization parameter is generated. Part of the bits of the...
4989250 Speech synthesizing apparatus and method  
A speech synthesizing apparatus includes an interpolation pitch calculation circuit wherein an interpolation pitch is calculated at every frame periods based upon a speech parameter. Specifically,...
4899386 Device for deciding pole-zero parameters approximating spectrum of an input signal  
For use in deciding optimum pole and zero parameters for an input signal with reference to an input cepstrum of the signal, candidate pole and zero parameters are stored in advance in a table....
4829573 Speech synthesizer  
A phonetically-driven speech synthesizer and method substantially entirely embodied in a programmed microprocessor. Information indicative of control parameters for each of a plurality of phonemes...
4821027 Voice interactive security system  
A security system for monitoring and detecting security breaches in a home comprises a central monitor and a plurality of remote sensors for one or more of fire, smoke, intrusion, appliance...
4811397 Apparatus for recording and reproducing human speech  
An analysis and synthesis device for analyzing human speech. Each phrase is memorized and analyzed, for later synthesis based on the analyzed data. The memory has a data area for analyzing each...
4797930 constructed syllable pitch patterns from phonological linguistic unit string data  
The present invention provides an artificial pitch contour to phonological linguistic phoneme unit string data. In the event that the phonological linguistic string data includes some information...
4783808 Connected word recognition enrollment method  
A method for generating connected word templates begins with generating isolated word templates of selected words. The isolated word templates are used to extract a continuous word template from a...
4776014 Method for pitch-aligned high-frequency regeneration in RELP vocoders  
A method for pitch-aligned high frequency regeneration of a speech signal which has been sampled at a known sampling frequency f S and decimated at a known integer decimation ratio N practiced in...
4754485 Digital processor for use in a text to speech system  
In a text to speech converter, ASCII text is first transformed into phoneme parameters using for example Hunnicutt rules. Glottal waveform digital samples are generated at a rate greater than...
4716591 Speech synthesis method and device  
Speech synthesis is improved by using normalized values of pitch and amplitude data to modify phoneme signals which are further processed by a quantizing noise filter which computes and interleaves...
4709340 Digital speech synthesizer  
Speech synthesis is selectable in two modes: "normal" mode in which the synthesis filter is responsive to prestored parameters, and "test" mode which executes a checking procedure based on test...
4707858 Utilizing word-to-digital conversion  
A communications system each end of which includes means for analyzing human speech and comparing each word to prestored words for word and speacker recognition, the message then being digitized...
4703505 Speech data encoding scheme  
A coding scheme which uses Shannon-Fano coding for data headers to identify the type of command signal, uses a first set of formant data in the command signal to generate second sets of formant...
4700391 Method and apparatus for pitch controlled voice signal processing  
Digital processing of speech signals for compression/expansion pitch change is provided by writing and reading a ROM at different rates and controlling the discard/repeat segments of memory to be...
4653100 Audio response terminal for use with data processing systems  
An audio response terminal for a data processing system which provides an audio output for data that is displayed on a video display unit. The terminal has a control unit that is separate from the...
4653099 SP sound synthesizer  
In an LSP sound synthesizer, LSP transform parameters for three types of sounds are prestored: human, bird, and insect. For synthesis, the inverse transform is modified to increase the quality of...
4631748 Electronic handheld translator having miniature electronic speech synthesis chip  
An electronic handheld talking translator including a speech synthesis integrated circuit device. The speech synthesis integrated circuit device includes a digital filter, a voiced/unvoiced...
4618985 Speech synthesizer  
A speech synthesizer is disclosed in which instantaneous conversational speech can be produced by an operator. The speech synthesizer comprises a two dimensional input device, such as a joystick or...
4613985 Speech synthesizer with function of developing melodies  
A synthesizer is disclosed which has the function of generating synthesized human voices and melodies in the form of synthesized sounds. The speech synthesizer may be implemented with one or more...
4586193 Formant-based speech synthesizer  
A formant-based multi-path speech synthesizer is reconfigurable to use common elements for different types of sounds. A pitch generator or a noise generator is connected to a glottal signal path...
4582441 Text editing with voice prompting  
An electronic typewriter or other keyboard entry display device may have a voice or audio prompt option incorporated therein. The option provides for the operator to record a series of commands to...
4574392 Arrangement for the transmission of speech according to the channel vocoder principle  
A synthesizer for a channel vocoder for the transmission of speech with considerable frequency band reduction in digital technology provides a reduction of circuit expense. This is accomplished,...
4566117 Speech synthesis system  
A speech synthesis system uses a programmable digital divider to generate desired formant frequencies. The divide factor is controlled by an MPU. The output of the divider is passed through a...
4527274 Voice synthesizer  
A voice synthesizer is disclosed for simulating a voice singing the lyrics of a song. The synthesizer comprises a phoneme speech synthesizer in which the phonemes are sounded at a pitch controlled...
4520502 Speech synthesizer  
In a pitch synchronous speech synthesizer, an output signal from a pitch phase detector is applied to a delay circuit in a digital filter portion to initialize the output contents of the delay...
4491958 Speech synthesizer  
In a speech synthesizer designed so that natural speech is chopped at constant intervals of time and characteristic parameters of the speech are extracted from the chopped speech and used for...
4470150 Voice synthesizer with automatic pitch and speech rate modulation  
Understandability of synthesized speech is improved by random modulation: after a predetermined number of phonemes, the speech rate is changed by a random amount, with proportional changes in pitch...
4468805 Variable frame length data converter for a speech synthesis circuit  
A speech synthesis circuit is provided with a variable frame length data converter and the speech synthesizer is preferably integrated on an integrated circuit chips. The variable frame length data...
4435832 Speech synthesizer having speech time stretch and compression functions  
A speech synthesizer is disclosed with the capability of stretching and compressing the speech time base without changing the pitch of the synthesized speech. One frame of speech is represented...
4423290 Speech synthesizer with capability of discontinuing to provide audible output  
A noise-free speech synthesizer is disclosed which interrupts an audible output of synthesized sounds during the period of time where a sound waveform signal is at a relatively low level...
4414878 Tone data compressing and expanding system for digital electronic musical instrument  
A tone signal having been data compressed or expanded is obtained through a circuit for taking the sum of upper three bits of envelope data, a latch for storing the output of said circuit, a...
4398059 Speech producing system  
An electronic, speech producing system receives allophonic codes and produces speech-like sounds corresponding to these codes, through a loud speaker. A micro-controller controls the retrieval,...
4384170 Method and apparatus for speech synthesizing  
A speech synthesizer including a device for storing compressed digital signals corresponding to original information speech or audio waveform time domain signals, the digital signals including...
4368988 Electronic timepiece having recording function  
An electronic timepiece has a plurality of alarm time memory circuits in a semiconductor memory means for memorizing different alarm times and a memory for memorizing voice data of messages telling...
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