| US 7,454,345 B2 | ||
| Word or collocation emphasizing voice synthesizer | ||
| Hitoshi Sasaki, Kawasaki (Japan); Yasushi Yamazaki, Kawasaki (Japan); Yasuji Ota, Kawasaki (Japan); Kaori Endo, Kawasaki (Japan); Nobuyuki Katae, Kawasaki (Japan); and Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kawasaki (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 23, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/63,758. | ||
| Application 11/063758 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP03/00402, filed on Jan. 20, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0171778 A1, Aug. 04, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G10L 13/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 704—258 [704/260; 704/266] | 13 Claims |
| 1. A voice synthesizer, comprising:
an emphasis degree deciding unit for extracting a word or a collocation to be emphasized from among respective words or respective
collocations on the basis of an extracting reference with respect to the each word or the each collocation included in a sentence
and deciding an emphasis degree of the extracted word or the extracted collocation;
an acoustic processing unit for generating a voice having an emphasis degree that is decided by the emphasis degree deciding
unit provided to the word to be emphasized or the collocation to be emphasized; and
a dictionary for storing therein one or more non-emphasis words or one or more non-emphasis collocations that are not necessarily
emphasized among the each word or the each collocation,
wherein said emphasis degree deciding unit excludes the non-emphasis words or the non-emphasis collocations stored in said
dictionary from one or more of the words or one or more of the collocations to be emphasized.
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