| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speech synthesizing method for providing higher quality synthesized speech than the conventional one in response to the case that synthesized speech is reproduced, and also to provide its system. <P>SOLUTION: The speech synthesizing method comprises steps of: retrieving an elementary speech unit used for synthesis at each unit in an input text by a DB retrieval part 2 from a database 1 storing a speech corpus including the elementary speech units of various units configuring a language; selecting combination of the optimum elementary speech unit from among the elementary speech units at each unit in the retrieved text by an elementary speech unit selector 3; determining by a state determining part 4 whether audio equipment reproducing the synthesized speech is a head phone or a speaker; outputting each elementary speech unit to a connection part 6 as it is with the head phone, or routing each elementary speech unit through a signal processor 5 with the speaker, and outputting it to the connection part 6 after signal processing correcting a rhythm to the elementary speech unit is performed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |
