Intelligent optical disk with speech synthesizing capabilities
US6393400B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 2, 1998 |
| Grant date | May 21, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 2, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L19/0018
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention provides a speech-synthesizing apparatus that synthesizes various types of voices and words, such as a dialect, on the basis of more compact databases, and a storage medium that has an electronic circuit making the speech-synthesizing apparatus feasible. The storage medium is an intelligent disk having part for storing information and part of an electronic circuit for processing the information. The disk stores at least parameters for controlling speech synthesis in an external apparatus or information to be speech-synthesized and a voice database that are used in the speech synthesis. The electronic circuit part selects the parameters corresponding to information to be speech-synthesized.
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