Speech synthesis and coding methods

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8862472
APP PUB NO 20120123782A1
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13264571

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The present invention is related to a method for coding excitation signal of a target speech comprising the steps of: extracting from a set of training normalized residual frames, a set of relevant normalized residual frames, said training residual frames being extracted from a training speech, synchronized on Glottal Closure Instant(GCI), pitch and energy normalized; determining the target excitation signal of the target speech; dividing said target excitation signal into GCI synchronized target frames; determining the local pitch and energy of the GCI synchronized target frames; normalizing the GCI synchronized target frames in both energy and pitch, to obtain target normalized residual frames; determining coefficients of linear combination of said extracted set of relevant normalized residual frames to build synthetic normalized residual frames close to each target normalized residual frames; wherein the coding parameters for each target residual frames comprise the determined coefficients.

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UNIVERSITE DE MONS7000 MONS
ACAPELA GROUP S ABOULEVARD DOLEZ 33 B-7000 MONS

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Drugman, Thomas Strepy Braquegnies, BE 1 10
Dutoit, Thierry Sirault, BE 4 35
Wilfart, Geoffrey Saint-Saulve, FR 1 10

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