Patent Document ID: 9110887
Application ID: 13727011

Base Claim:
1. A speech synthesis apparatus comprising: a statistical model storage configured to store a plurality of statistical models prepared by statistically modeling acoustic information included in speech; a basis model storage configured to store a basis model including a plurality of basis vectors, each of which expresses speech information for each limited frequency range; and a computer programmed to, based on instructions stored in a memory: analyze, by a language analyzer, text data and output language information data that represents linguistic information of the text data; select, by a model selector, a statistical model from the plurality of statistical models stored in the statistical model storage, based on the language information data output from the language analyzer; generate, by a parameter generator, a plurality of speech parameter sequences using the statistical model selected by the model selector; output, by a filter processor, synthetic speech by executing filter processing of the plurality of speech parameter sequences generated by the parameter generator and the basis model stored in the basis model storage, wherein any of the plurality of speech parameter sequences represents weights to be applied to the basis vectors upon linearly combining the plurality of basis vectors in the basis model in the basis model storage.

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Claim 5:
5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the number of the plurality of basis vectors in the basis model stored in the basis model storage is less than a half of the number of analysis points used upon analyzing a quantized speech waveform signal.