Segmental tonal modeling for tonal languages
    2.
    发明授权
    Segmental tonal modeling for tonal languages 有权
    对于声调语言基于细分的色调造型

    公开(公告)号:EP1557821B1

    公开(公告)日:2011-10-26

    申请号:EP05100347.3

    申请日:2005-01-20

    发明人: Huang, Chao Chu, Min

    IPC分类号: G10L15/02 G10L13/06 G10L13/08

    摘要: A phone set for use in speech processing such as speech recognition or text-to-speech conversion is used to model or form syllables of a tonal language having a plurality of different tones. Each syllable includes an initial part that can be glide dependent and a final part. The final part includes a plurality of phones. Each phones carries partial tonal information such that the phones taken together implicitly and jointly represent the different tones.

    Method and apparatus for speech synthesis without prosody modification
    3.
    发明公开
    Method and apparatus for speech synthesis without prosody modification 有权
    方法和语音合成装置,而不改变韵律

    公开(公告)号:EP1777697A3

    公开(公告)日:2008-06-18

    申请号:EP07002565.5

    申请日:2001-12-03

    发明人: Chu, Min Peng, Hu

    IPC分类号: G10L13/08 G10L13/06

    CPC分类号: G10L13/07 G10L13/04

    摘要: A speech synthesizer is provided that concatenates stored samples of speech units without modifying the prosody of the samples. The present invention is able to achieve a high level of naturalness in synthesized speech with a carefully designed training speech corpus by storing samples based on the prosodic and phonetic context in which they occur. In particular, some embodiments of the present invention limit the training text to those sentences that will produce the most frequent sets of prosodic contexts for each speech unit. Further embodiments of the present invention also provide a multi-tier selection mechanism for selecting a set of samples that will produce the most natural sounding speech.

    Segmental tonal modeling for tonal languages
    4.
    发明公开
    Segmental tonal modeling for tonal languages 有权
    对于声调语言基于细分的色调造型

    公开(公告)号:EP1557821A3

    公开(公告)日:2008-04-02

    申请号:EP05100347.3

    申请日:2005-01-20

    发明人: Huang, Chao Chu, Min

    IPC分类号: G10L15/02 G10L13/06 G10L13/08

    摘要: A phone set for use in speech processing such as speech recognition or text-to-speech conversion is used to model or form syllables of a tonal language having a plurality of different tones. Each syllable includes an initial part that can be glide dependent and a final part. The final part includes a plurality of phones. Each phones carries partial tonal information such that the phones taken together implicitly and jointly represent the different tones.

    Method and apparatus for speech synthesis without prosody modification
    5.
    发明公开
    Method and apparatus for speech synthesis without prosody modification 有权
    Verfahren zur Sprachsynthese ohneÄnderungder Prosodie

    公开(公告)号:EP1777697A2

    公开(公告)日:2007-04-25

    申请号:EP07002565.5

    申请日:2001-12-03

    发明人: Chu, Min Peng, Hu

    IPC分类号: G10L13/06

    CPC分类号: G10L13/07 G10L13/04

    摘要: A speech synthesizer is provided that concatenates stored samples of speech units without modifying the prosody of the samples. The present invention is able to achieve a high level of naturalness in synthesized speech with a carefully designed training speech corpus by storing samples based on the prosodic and phonetic context in which they occur. In particular, some embodiments of the present invention limit the training text to those sentences that will produce the most frequent sets of prosodic contexts for each speech unit. Further embodiments of the present invention also provide a multi-tier selection mechanism for selecting a set of samples that will produce the most natural sounding speech.

    摘要翻译: 提供语音合成器,其连接存储的语音单元的样本,而不修改样本的韵律。 本发明通过存储基于其发生的韵律和语音语境的样本,能够通过精心设计的训练语音语料库来实现合成语音的高度自然度。 特别地,本发明的一些实施例将训练文本限制于将为每个语音单元产生最频繁的韵律上下文集合的句子。 本发明的另外的实施例还提供了一种用于选择将产生最自然的声音语音的一组样本的多层选择机制。

    Method and apparatus for speech synthesis without prosody modification
    7.
    发明公开
    Method and apparatus for speech synthesis without prosody modification 有权
    方法和装置Sprachsysnthese没有变化韵律

    公开(公告)号:EP1213705A3

    公开(公告)日:2004-12-22

    申请号:EP01128765.3

    申请日:2001-12-03

    发明人: Chu, Min Peng, Hu

    IPC分类号: G10L13/08 G10L13/06

    CPC分类号: G10L13/07

    摘要: A speech synthesizer is provided that concatenates stored samples of speech units without modifying the prosody of the samples. The present invention is able to achieve a high level of naturalness in synthesized speech with a carefully designed training speech corpus by storing samples based on the prosodic and phonetic context in which they occur. In particular, some embodiments of the present invention limit the training text to those sentences that will produce the most frequent sets of prosodic contexts for each speech unit. Further embodiments of the present invention also provide a multi-tier selection mechanism for selecting a set of samples that will produce the most natural sounding speech.

    Front-end architecture for a multi-lingual text-to-speech system
    8.
    发明公开
    Front-end architecture for a multi-lingual text-to-speech system 审中-公开
    Eingangsarchitekturfürein mehrspra​​chiges TTS-System

    公开(公告)号:EP1463031A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-09-29

    申请号:EP04006985.8

    申请日:2004-03-23

    IPC分类号: G10L13/08

    CPC分类号: G10L13/08

    摘要: A text processing system for processing multi-lingual text for a speech synthesizer includes a first language dependent module for performing at least one of text and prosody analysis on a portion of input text comprising a first language. A second language dependent module performs at least one of text and prosody analysis on a second portion of input text comprising a second language. A third module is adapted to receive outputs from the first and second dependent module and performs prosodic and phonetic context abstraction over the outputs based on multi-lingual text.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于处理语音合成器的多语言文本的文本处理系统包括用于对包括第一语言的输入文本的一部分执行文本和韵律分析中的至少一个的第一语言相关模块。 第二语言相关模块在包括第二语言的输入文本的第二部分上执行文本和韵律分析中的至少一个。 第三模块适于接收来自第一和第二从属模块的输出,并且基于多语言文本在输出上执行韵律和语音上下文抽象。

    Method and apparatus for speech synthesis without prosody modification
    9.
    发明公开
    Method and apparatus for speech synthesis without prosody modification 有权
    Verfahren und Anordnung zur Sprachsysnthese

    公开(公告)号:EP1213705A2

    公开(公告)日:2002-06-12

    申请号:EP01128765.3

    申请日:2001-12-03

    发明人: Chu, Min Peng, Hu

    IPC分类号: G10L13/08 G10L13/06

    CPC分类号: G10L13/07

    摘要: A speech synthesizer is provided that concatenates stored samples of speech units without modifying the prosody of the samples. The present invention is able to achieve a high level of naturalness in synthesized speech with a carefully designed training speech corpus by storing samples based on the prosodic and phonetic context in which they occur. In particular, some embodiments of the present invention limit the training text to those sentences that will produce the most frequent sets of prosodic contexts for each speech unit. Further embodiments of the present invention also provide a multi-tier selection mechanism for selecting a set of samples that will produce the most natural sounding speech.

    摘要翻译: 提供语音合成器,其连接存储的语音单元的样本,而不修改样本的韵律。 本发明通过存储基于其发生的韵律和语音语境的样本,能够通过精心设计的训练语音语料库来实现合成语音的高度自然度。 特别地,本发明的一些实施例将训练文本限制于将为每个语音单元产生最频繁的韵律上下文集合的句子。 本发明的另外的实施例还提供了一种用于选择将产生最自然的声音语音的一组样本的多层选择机制。