| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speech synthesizer which can output natural synthesized speech. <P>SOLUTION: The synthesizer comprises a feature parameter DB 106 for storing foreign origin word attributes of voice unit and voice unit data indicating sound characteristics for every voice unit; a language analyzer 104 and rhythm estimation 109 acquire text data, and estimate the foreign origin word attributes and sound characteristics of the voice unit with respect to each of multiple voice unit for representing the text of text data; a voice unit selector 108 for selecting the voice unit data indicating the contents similar to the foreign origin word attributes of estimated voice unit from the feature parameter DB 106 for every voice unit representing the text; and a speech synthesizer 110 for generating and outputting the synthesized speech by using the selected multiple voice unit data. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |
