Speech analysis and synthesis system

Claim 2

A speech analysis and synthesis system comprising: means for determining a sound source signal for an entire interval of a speech unit which is to be used for speech synthesis, according to a spectrum parameter obtained from a signal of said speech unit based on cepstrum; means for storing said sound source signal and said spectrum parameter for said speech unit; means for synthesizing speech according to said spectrum parameter while controlling prosodic information on a duration, a pitch and an amplitude of said speech unit concerning said sound source signal; and filter means for compensating spectrum of said synthesized speech, to remove spectral distortion, based on cepstrum from said synthesized speech and cepstrum from said stored spectrum parameter.

Claim 3

A speech analysis apparatus used in a speech analysis and synthesis system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said determining means comprises: a spectrum parameter calculation circuit operative to carry out analysis based on cepstrum for a selected one of a plurality of time durations predetermined from said speech unit signal which is to be used for speech synthesis or for a selected one of a plurality of time durations corresponding to a pitch period of a pitch parameter extracted from said speech unit so as to calculate and store said spectrum parameter; and a sound source signal calculation circuit for carrying out inverse filtering according to a linear predictive coefficient based on said spectrum parameter for said selected one of each of said predetermined time durations or for said selected one of said time durations corresponding to said pitch period of said pitch parameter so as to determine and store said sound source signal of the entire said speech unit.

Claim 4

A speech synthesis apparatus used in a speech analysis and synthesis system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said storing means comprises: a sound source signal storing circuit for storing a sound source signal for each of speech units; a spectrum parameter storing circuit for storing spectrum parameter determined according to cepstrum for each of said speech units; wherein said synthesizing means comprises: a prosody control circuit for controlling prosody on the duration, pitch and amplitude of said speech unit concerning said sound source signal so as to permit changing said duration, said pitch and said amplitude; a synthesis circuit for synthesizing speech according to said prosody controlled sound source signal and said spectrum parameter; and wherein said filter means comprises: a filter circuit for compensating spectrum of said synthesized speech according to said spectrum parameter to remove spectral distortion based on cepstrum from the synthesized speech and cepstrum from said stored spectrum parameter.