Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080213610 | Method of manufacturing iron member - An iron member having a coating film on at least part of its surface is manufactured by a step of projecting zinc particles to the surface of a base material made of an iron material to form a base film, and a step of forming a coating film of resin coating material on at least a part of the base film. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219471 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH A SIGNAL PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A signal processing method for converting a signal received via a transmission path or read from a storage medium into a first audible signal, and suppressing a noise other than a desired signal contained in the first audible signal based on predetermined audio quality adjustment information, comprising steps of: in suppressing a noise other than a desired signal contained in the first audible signal to generate an enhanced signal, receiving audio quality adjustment information for adjusting audio quality; and adjusting audio quality of the enhanced signal using the audio quality adjustment information | 09-11-2008 |
20080219473 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - The present invention is characterized in performing noise suppression immediately before or after mixing signals received from a plurality of terminals. Thus, in multi-point connection for a plurality of terminal devices, a mixed signal can be supplied with high sound quality to a receiver terminal, regardless of the presence and performance of the noise suppression function in a transmitter terminal. | 09-11-2008 |
20090177475 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Even when a pitch cycle has a large fluctuation and the pitch cycle string changes abruptly, it possible to suppress the affect of the pitch cycle fluctuation and generate high-quality synthesized speech. A speech synthesis device generates a synthesized speech corresponding to an input text sentence according to an original speech waveform stored in original speech waveform information storage unit ( | 07-09-2009 |
20090204405 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS - Apparatus and method for generating high quality synthesized speech having smooth waveform concatenation. The apparatus includes a pitch frequency calculation section, a pitch synchronization position calculation section, a unit waveform storage, a unit waveform selection section, a unit waveform generation section, and a waveform synthesis section. The unit waveform generation section includes a conversion ratio calculation section, a sampling rate conversion section, and a unit waveform re-selection section. The conversion ratio calculation section calculates a sampling rate conversion ratio from the pitch information and the position of pitch synchronization, and the sampling rate conversion section converts the sampling rate of the unit waveform, delivered as input, based on the sampling rate conversion ratio. The unit waveform re-selection section selects, from the sampling-rate-converted unit waveform, the unit waveform having a phase necessary to obtain a synthesized speech waveform which will exhibit smooth waveform concatenation. | 08-13-2009 |
20090273902 | OUTDOOR APPARATUS - An outdoor apparatus that incorporates a heat sink and has a box-shaped casing, having a plurality of aligned ventilation holes formed on an upper plate and a lower plate so as to oppose the heat sink, and wherein inter-hole portions that are portions of the upper plate between adjacent ventilation holes are recessed downward with respect to other portions of the upper plate. | 11-05-2009 |
20090319273 | AUDIO CONTENT GENERATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION EXCHANGING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AUDIO CONTENT GENERATING METHOD, AND INFORMATION EXCHANGING METHOD - An audio content generation system is a system for generating audio contents including a voice synthesis unit | 12-24-2009 |
20100010808 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program for Suppressing Noise - To provide a noise suppressing method and apparatus capable of achieving high-quality noise suppression using a lower amount of operations. Noise contained in an input signal is suppressed by transforming the input signal into frequency-domain signals; integrating bands of the frequency-domain signals to determine integrated frequency-domain signals; determining estimated noise based on the integrated frequency-domain signals; determining spectral gains based on the estimated noise and said integrated frequency-domain signals; and weighting said frequency-domain signals by the spectral gains. | 01-14-2010 |
20100076768 | SPEECH SYNTHESIZING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is a speech synthesizing apparatus including a segment selection unit that selects a segment suited to a target segment environment from candidate segments, includes a prosody change amount calculation unit that calculates prosody change amount of each candidate segment based on prosody information of candidate segments and the target segment environment, a selection criterion calculation unit that calculates a selection criterion based on the prosody change amount, a candidate selection unit that narrows down selection candidates based on the prosody change amount and the selection criterion, and an optimum segment search unit than searches for an optimum segment from among the narrowed-down candidate segments. | 03-25-2010 |
20100145706 | Speech Synthesizing Device, Speech Synthesizing Method, and Program - An object of the present invention is to provide a device and a method for generating a synthesized speech that has an utterance form that matches music. A musical genre estimation unit of the speech synthesizing device estimates the musical genre to which a received music signal belongs, an utterance form selection unit references an utterance form information storage unit to determine an utterance form from the musical genre. A prosody generation unit references a prosody generation rule storage unit, selected from prosody generation rule storage units | 06-10-2010 |
20100211393 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM - A speech synthesis device is provided with: a central segment selection unit for selecting a central segment from among a plurality of speech segments; a prosody generation unit for generating prosody information based on the central segment; a non-central segment selection unit for selecting a non-central segment, which is a segment outside of a central segment section, based on the central segment and the prosody information; and a waveform generation unit for generating a synthesized speech waveform based on the prosody information, the central segment, and the non-central segment. The speech synthesis device first selects a central segment that forms a basis for prosody generation and generates prosody information based on the central segment so that it is possible to sufficiently reduce both concatenation distortion and sound quality degradation accompanying prosody control in the section of the central segment. | 08-19-2010 |
20100305949 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM - It is possible to provide a speech synthesis device, speech synthesis method, and speech synthesis program which can improve a speech quality and reduce a calculation amount with a preferable balance between them. The speech synthesis device includes: a sub-score calculation unit ( | 12-02-2010 |
20110092400 | SOLID LUBRICANT AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A method for producing a solid lubricant includes steps of preparing and coating. A phosphate aqueous solution prepared by the step of preparing is an aqueous solution containing at least one of aluminum dihydrogen phosphate and magnesium dihydrogen phosphate in an amount of 0.5 to 10% by mass. A graphite material is coated with a phosphate using the phosphate aqueous solution. The graphite material is used at a ratio of 40 to 50 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the aqueous solution. | 04-21-2011 |
20110106538 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM - This speech synthesis system includes a server device and a client device. The client device accepts text information representing text, and transmits a speech element request to the server device. The server device stores speech element information. The server device receives the speech element request transmitted by the client device and, in response to the received speech element request, transmits speech element information to the client device so that the speech element information is received by the client device in a different order from an order of arrangement of speech elements in speech corresponding to the text. The client device executes a speech synthesis process by rearranging the speech element information so that speech elements represented by the received speech element information are arranged in the same order as the order of arrangement of the speech elements in the speech corresponding to the text. | 05-05-2011 |
20110137655 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM - A speech synthesis system includes a server device and a client device. The server device stores speech element information and speech element identification information in association with each other so that, in a case that speech element information representing respective speech elements included in speech uttered by a speech registering user are arranged in the order of arrangement of the speech elements in the speech, at least one of speech element identification information identifying the respective speech element information has different information from information arranged in accordance with a predetermined rule. The client device transmits speech element identification information to the server device based on accepted text information. The client device executes a speech synthesis process based on the speech element information received from the server device. | 06-09-2011 |
20110196680 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM - When a system ( | 08-11-2011 |
20120033828 | Signal Processing Method and Apparatus, and Recording Medium in Which a Signal Processing Program is Recorded - A signal processing method for converting a signal received via a transmission path or read from a storage medium into a first audible signal, and suppressing a noise other than a desired signal contained in the first audible signal based on predetermined audio quality adjustment information, comprising steps of: in suppressing a noise other than a desired signal contained in the first audible signal to generate an enhanced signal, receiving audio quality adjustment information for adjusting audio quality; and adjusting audio quality of the enhanced signal using the audio quality adjustment information | 02-09-2012 |
20130117026 | SPEECH SYNTHESIZER, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM - State duration creation means creates a state duration indicating a duration of each state in a hidden Markov model, based on linguistic information and a model parameter of prosody information. Duration correction degree computing means derives a speech feature from the linguistic information, and computes a duration correction degree which is an index indicating a degree of correcting the state duration, based on the derived speech feature. State duration correction means corrects the state duration based on a phonological duration correction parameter and the duration correction degree, the phonological duration correction parameter indicating a correction ratio of correcting a phonological duration. | 05-09-2013 |
20130180655 | ADHESIVE - There is provided a powdery adhesive that is used for adhesion between a metal plate and a porous material. The powdery adhesive includes at least thermosetting adhesive particles and an anti-rust filler. A content of the anti-rust filler is 0.1 to 1.0 part by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the thermosetting adhesive particles. The anti-rust filler may be at least one of phosphate and molybdate. | 07-18-2013 |
20130211839 | FEATURE SEQUENCE GENERATING DEVICE, FEATURE SEQUENCE GENERATING METHOD, AND FEATURE SEQUENCE GENERATING PROGRAM - Spread level parameter correcting means | 08-15-2013 |
20130214717 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS - A resonance suppression control block includes a high-pass filter for extracting an AC component of DC link voltage, and a gain section for outputting a correction signal obtained by multiplying the AC component by a gain. A control unit controls an inverter based on a signal obtained by adding the correction signal to the voltage instruction. Thus, a power conversion apparatus with a simple configuration can be obtained that can suppress resonance of a DC link section and omit extra work for performing adjustment again in accordance with a power supply frequency. | 08-22-2013 |
20130233486 | ADHESIVE AGENT, ADHESION METHOD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ADHERED MATERIAL - The purpose of the present invention is to improve adhesion failure associated with “a bubble formation phenomenon” that may occur in an adhesive layer when the thickness of an adhesive agent is increased and “Cratering” which may be caused in the adhesive layer by contaminants or the like present on a material to be adhered. | 09-12-2013 |
20130325477 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM - A speech synthesis system includes: a training database storing training data which is set of features extracted from speech waveform data; a feature space division unit which divides a feature space which is a space concerning to the training data into partial spaces; a sparse or dense state detection unit which detects a sparse or dense state to each partial space which is the divided feature space, generates sparse or dense information which is information indicating the sparse or dense state and outputs the sparse or dense information; and a pronunciation information correcting unit which corrects pronunciation information which is used for speech synthesis based on the outputted sparse or dense information. | 12-05-2013 |
20140012584 | PROSODY GENERATOR, SPEECH SYNTHESIZER, PROSODY GENERATING METHOD AND PROSODY GENERATING PROGRAM - There is provided a prosody generator that generates prosody information for implementing highly natural speech synthesis without unnecessarily collecting large quantities of learning data. A data dividing means | 01-09-2014 |
20140067396 | SEGMENT INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM - A segment information generation device includes a waveform cutout unit cuts out a speech waveform from natural speech at a time period not depending on a pitch frequency of the natural speech. A feature parameter extraction unit extracts a feature parameter of a speech waveform from the speech waveform cut out by the waveform cutout unit. A time domain waveform generation unit generates a time domain waveform based on the feature parameter. | 03-06-2014 |
20140136192 | WAVEFORM PROCESSING DEVICE, WAVEFORM PROCESSING METHOD, AND WAVEFORM PROCESSING PROGRAM - There is provided a waveform processing device for changing power of each pitch waveform of a segment in order to acquire a natural synthesis speech. A power calculation means | 05-15-2014 |
20140149116 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM - There are provided a speech synthesis device, a speech synthesis method and a speech synthesis program which can represent a phoneme as a duration shorter than a duration upon modeling according to a statistical method. A speech synthesis device 80 according to the present invention includes a phoneme boundary updating means 81 which, by using a voiced utterance likelihood index which is an index indicating a degree of voiced utterance likelihood of each state which represents a phoneme modeled by a statistical method, updates a phoneme boundary position which is a boundary with other phonemes neighboring to the phoneme. | 05-29-2014 |