Patent ID: 7523037

Claim:
A data synthesis apparatus comprising: a period detector for detecting a start of a period of voice waveform data; a first storage device; a first storage control unit for storing the voice waveform data in the first storage device, starting with a part corresponding to the start of the period detected by the period detector; a second storage device; a second storage control unit for storing in the second storage device musical-sound waveform data including information on pulses having a specified period; a convolution operation unit for performing a convolution operation on the voice waveform data stored in the first storage device and the musical-sound waveform data stored in the second storage device, thereby providing synthesized waveform data synchronized with the specified period of the musical-sound waveform data stored in the second storage device; an additional storage device which stores voice waveform data that can include identification information indicating the start of the period of the voice waveform data, and wherein when the voice waveform data read from the additional storage device comprises identification information indicating the start of the period of the voice waveform data, the first storage control unit stores in the first storage device voice waveform data for at least one period including the identification information; wherein the additional storage device stores voice waveform data on which a window function output is operated beforehand.