Voice conversion apparatus and method and speech synthesis apparatus and method

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PATENT NO 8438033
APP PUB NO 20100049522A1
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12505684

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A voice conversion apparatus stores, in a parameter memory, target speech spectral parameters of target speech, stores, in a voice conversion rule memory, a voice conversion rule for converting voice quality of source speech into voice quality of the target speech, extracts, from an input source speech, a source speech spectral parameter of the input source speech, converts extracted source speech spectral parameter into a first conversion spectral parameter by using the voice conversion rule, selects target speech spectral parameter similar to the first conversion spectral parameter from the parameter memory, generates an aperiodic component spectral parameter representing from selected target speech spectral parameter, mixes a periodic component spectral parameter included in the first conversion spectral parameter with the aperiodic component spectral parameter, to obtain a second conversion spectral parameter, and generates a speech waveform from the second conversion spectral parameter.

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TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION72-34 HORIKAWA-CHO SAIWAI-KU KAWASAKI-SHI KANAGAWA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kagoshima, Takehiko Yokohama, JP 66 1138
Morita, Masahiro Yokohama, JP 114 1326
Tamura, Masatsune Kawasaki, JP 25 574

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