Patent №
US 6,778,960
Granted
2004-08-17
Filed 2001
Owner
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Lab
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AI components
3
ml · nlp · speech
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09818626
A speech information processing apparatus which sets the duration of phonological series with accuracy, and sets a natural phoneme duration in accordance with phonemic/linguistic environment. For this purpose, the duration of predetermined unit of phonological series is obtained based on a duration model for entire segment. Then duration of each of phonemes constructing the phonological series is obtained based on the duration model for the entire segment. Then duration of each phoneme is set based on the duration of the phonological series and the duration of each phoneme.
AI classification
Ownership
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
assignment · 116470792
Assignors
FUKADA, TOSHIAKI
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.