公开(公告)号：US11830473B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-28

申请号：US17037023

申请日：2020-09-29

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Jesus Monge Alvarez ,  Holly Francois ,  Hosang Sung ,  Seungdo Choi ,  Kihyun Choo ,  Sangjun Park

IPC: G10L13/027 ,  G10L13/047 ,  G10L15/06 ,  G10L15/187 ,  G10L13/06

CPC classification number: G10L13/027 ,  G10L13/047 ,  G10L13/06 ,  G10L15/063 ,  G10L15/187 ,  G10L2015/0635

Abstract: A system for synthesising expressive speech includes: an interface configured to receive an input text for conversion to speech; a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to generate, using an expressivity characterisation module, a plurality of expression vectors, wherein each expression vector is a representation of prosodic information in a reference audio style file, and synthesise expressive speech from the input text, using an expressive acoustic model comprising a deep convolutional neural network that is conditioned by at least one of the plurality of expression vectors.