Patent ID: 8155964

Claim:
A voice quality edit device that generates a new voice quality feature by editing a part or all of voice quality features each consisting of acoustic features regarding a corresponding voice quality, said voice quality edit device comprising: a voice quality feature database holding the voice quality features; a speaker attribute database holding, for each of the voice quality features held in said voice quality feature database, an identifier enabling a user to expect a voice quality of a corresponding voice quality feature; a weight setting unit configured to set a weight for each of the acoustic features of a corresponding voice quality; a display coordinate calculation unit configured to calculate display coordinates of each of the voice quality features held in said voice quality feature database, based on (i) the acoustic features of a corresponding voice quality feature and (ii) the weights set for the acoustic features by said weight setting unit; a display unit configured to display, for each of the voice quality features held in said voice quality feature database, the identifier held in said speaker attribute database on the display coordinates calculated by said display coordinate calculation unit; a position input unit configured to receive designated coordinates; and a voice quality mix unit configured to (i) calculate a distance between (1) the designated coordinates received by said position input unit and (2) the display coordinates of each of a part or all of the voice quality features held in said voice quality feature database, and (ii) mix the acoustic features of the part or all of the voice quality features together based on a ratio between the calculated distances in order to generate a new voice quality feature.