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Speech synthesis method and apparatus

US11404045B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 31, 2020
Grant dateAug 2, 2022
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Expiry dateOct 21, 2040

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L25/30
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A speech synthesis method performed by an electronic apparatus to synthesize speech from text and includes: obtaining text input to the electronic apparatus; obtaining a text representation by encoding the text using a text encoder of the electronic apparatus; obtaining an audio representation of a first audio frame set from an audio encoder of the electronic apparatus, based on the text representation; obtaining an audio representation of a second audio frame set based on the text representation and the audio representation of the first audio frame set; obtaining an audio feature of the second audio frame set by decoding the audio representation of the second audio frame set; and synthesizing speech based on an audio feature of the first audio frame set and the audio feature of the second audio frame set.

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