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Speech synthesis method and system

US11842722B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 9, 2021
Grant dateDec 12, 2023
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Expiry dateJun 9, 2041

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

Abstract

Disclosed is a speech synthesis method including: acquiring fundamental frequency information and acoustic feature information from original speech; generating an impulse train from the fundamental frequency information, and inputting it to a harmonic time-varying filter; inputting the acoustic feature information into a neural network filter estimator to obtain corresponding impulse response information; generating noise signal by a noise generator; determining, by the harmonic time-varying filter, harmonic component information through filtering processing on the impulse train and the impulse response information; determining, by a noise time-varying filter, noise component information based on the impulse response information and the noise; and generating a synthesized speech from the harmonic component information and the noise component information. Acoustic features are processed to obtain corresponding impulse response information, and harmonic component information and noise component information are modeled respectively, thereby reducing computation of speech synthesis and improving the quality of the synthesized speech.

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