Patent ID: 11869529
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 18:
19. The speech rhythm conversion method according to claim 14, the method further comprising:
storing, by a training data store training data including a pair of the first feature value vector including third data associated with the speech rhythm of at least the phoneme extracted from the first speech signal resulting from the speech uttered by the speaker in the first group and fourth data associated with the speech rhythm extracted from a second speech signal resulting from the speech uttered by the speaker in the second group; and
learning, by a learner, using the training data, the neural network that receives, as an input thereto, the first feature value vector extracted from the first speech signal;
converting, by the learner, the speech rhythm of the first speech signal to the speech rhythm of the speaker in the second group, and
providing, by the learner, the speech rhythm of the speaker in the second group.