Patent ID: 7135636

Claim:
A singing voice synthesizing apparatus, comprising: a storage device that stores singing voice information for synthesizing a singing voice; a phoneme database that stores articulation data of a transition part that includes an articulation for a transition from one phoneme to another phoneme and stationary data of a long sound part that includes stationary part where one phoneme is stably pronounced; a selecting device that selects data stored in the phoneme database in accordance with the singing voice information; a first outputting device that outputs a characteristic parameter of the transition part by extracting the characteristic parameter of the transition part from the articulation data selected by the selecting device; and a second outputting device that obtains the articulation data before and after the stationary data of a long sound part selected by the selecting device, generates a characteristic parameter of the long sound part by interpolating the obtained two articulation data and outputs the generated characteristic parameter of the long sound part.