760 results about "Consonant" patented technology

A preferred embodiment of the method for converting text to speech using a computing device having a memory is disclosed. The inventive method comprises examining a text to be spoken to an audience for a specific communications purpose, followed by marking-up the text according to a phonetic markup systems such as the Lessac System pronunciation rules notations. A set of rules to control a speech to text generator based on speech principles, such as Lessac principles. Such rules are of the tide normally implemented on prior art text-to-speech engines, and control the operation of the software and the characteristics of the speech generated by a computer using the software. A computer is used to speak the marked-up text expressively. The step of using a computer to speak the marked-up text expressively is repeated using alternative pronunciations of the selected style of expression where each of the tonal, structural, and consonant energies, have a different balance in the speech, are also spoken to a trained speech practitioners that listened to the spoken speech generated by the computer. The spoken speech generated by the computer is then evaluated for consistency with style criteria and/or expressiveness. And audience is then assembled and the spoken speech generated by the computer is played back to the audience. Audience comprehension of spoken speech generated by the computer is evaluated and correlated to a particular implemented rule or rules, and those rules which resulted relatively high audience comprehension are selected.

The invention relates to an individualized singing sound synthesis method, including the following steps: building up a module of the coefficient of the line spectrum frequency of the sound and obtaining a relevant decision-making tree module through training; recording the reading sounds of a special subscriber to get the module of the coefficient of the line spectrum frequency of the sound of the subscriber; obtaining the attribute set relevant to the context of the lyric of the numerical notes, and pre-estimating the frequency parameters and the time duration data of initial consonant and vowels corresponding to the lyric according to the decision-making tree module and the module of the coefficient of the individualized line spectrum frequency; building up fundamental frequency data according to the numerical notes and combining the fundamental frequency data with the time duration and frequency parameters to obtain synthesized parameters; inputting the parameters into a parameterized sound synthesis vocoder, so that individualized singing sound can be synthesized. The method of the invention can synthesize synthesis sound with singing style by adjusting a few parameters of the rhythm and can synthesize singing sound by only recording a small reciting style library.

The present invention mainly relates to a Chinese and English digital input method (30 vocode key-element plan) of common-used keyboard. The principle of the invention is that total 30 vocodes composed of 26 English letters and 4 double letters of io, ia, ua and ng are used as key elements. The input of Chinese adopts the following modes. Mode 1 adopts the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable, simple or compounded vowel of a Chinese syllable, intonation and radix complement. Mode 2 adopts the initial of initial consonant of a Chinese syllable, sequence number, simple or compounded vowel of a Chinese syllable and intonation. Mode 3 adopts the initial of initial consonant of a Chinese syllable, radix complement, simple or compounded vowel of a Chinese syllable and intonation. Mode 4 adopts the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable, simple or compounded vowel of a Chinese syllable and intonation. The input of English adopts the key sequence of key element for encoding digitally through a mode of key after key. The distribution of key elements is uniform. The key elements are little. The Chinese and English digital input method (30 vocode key-element plan) of common-used keyboard is suitable for inputting Chinese, English and symbol with a device which is provided with at least ten number keys.

The invention provides a speech recognition modeling method and a speech recognition modeling device. The above speech recognition modeling method comprises steps: speech signals are converted into a feature vector sequence and an annotated text corresponding to the speech signals is converted into a modeling unit sequence, wherein each modeling unit in the modeling unit sequence is a complete initial consonant or vowel producing unit or an initial consonant or vowel producing unit related to a context; a blank label is added in front of or behind any modeling unit in the modeling unit sequence; and based on connectionist temporal classification (CTC), the feature vector sequence and the modeling unit sequence after the blank label is added are trained, and a speech recognition model is built. According to the CTC-based deep neural network initial consonant and vowel modeling of the invention, the recognition speed and the recognition accuracy for the built speech recognition model can be improved.

Synthesis of a moving picture of a face (e.g. to accompany synthetic speech) is performed by converting an input phoneme string into a sequence of mouth shapes or visemes. Specifically a shape is generated for each vowel and for each transition involving a consonant.

The present invention provides a numeric coded Pinyin and Zhuyin multi-character input method on a reduced keypad, in which each Chinese phrase is mapped to corresponding numeric sequences based on full syllable or initial consonant of a syllable inputting rule and the keypad mapping relation, accordingly, phrases of different phonetic pronunciation may be mapped to a same numeric sequence; in the case of consecutively receiving a numeric keystroke sequence which represents of several desired Chinese characters but pronunciation still undetermined, a processor immediately searches the phrases' numeric sequences which are matched with keystroke sequence and present these mixed phrase candidates to user even though these candidates may have different pronunciation; further, an initial syllable grouping and cycling rule is specially defined, along with a key for switching between character candidate priority and phrase candidate priority, additionally, define an equal-length candidate filtering code keystroke, and a key for determining syllable by character and the like to accelerate the choice of candidate phrases and facilitate the realization of PC-like Chinese phrase consecutive inputting on the reduced keypad.

A hearing aid for improving diminished hearing caused by reduced temporal resolution includes: a speech input unit (201) which receives a speech signal from outside; a speech analysis unit (202) which detects a sound segment and a segment acoustically regarded as soundless from the speech signal received by the speech input unit and detects a consonant segment and a vowel segment within the detected sound segment; and a signal processing unit (204) which temporally increments the consonant segment detected by the speech analysis unit (204) and temporally decrements at least one of the vowel segment and the segment acoustically regarded as soundless detected by the speech analysis unit (204).

A method and apparatus to inputt Korean characters using a touch screen, the method including: if a first input that selects a consonant key displayed on the touch screen is sensed, vowel keys including a Cheon (•) key, a Ji (-) key, and an In (┐) key are displayed around the selected consonant key; and, if a second input that selects at least one of the displayed vowel keys is sensed, a consonant corresponding to the first input is determined as an initial character of a syllable and a vowel corresponding to the second input is determined as a medial character of the syllable.

A method on a computing device is provided for enhancing the memory and cognitive ability of an older adult by requiring the adult to differentiate between rapidly presented stimuli. The method utilizes a sequence of phonemes from a confusable pair which are systematically manipulated to make discrimination between the phonemes less difficult or more difficult based on the success of the adult. The manipulation includes processing of the consonant and vowel portions of the phonemes by emphasizing the portions, and/or by stretching the portions. Further processing includes separating the consonant and vowel portions by time intervals. As the adult improves in their auditory processing, the discriminations are made progressively more difficult by reducing the amount of processing to that of normal speech.

PCT No. PCT/GB94/00430 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 2, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 2, 1996 PCT Filed Mar. 7, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/23423 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 13, 1994Synthetic speech is generated from conventional texts and in particular by converting text in graphemes into a text in phonemes. The grapheme text is analyzed into rimes and onsets, and each word is analyzed from the end so that earlier-occurring segments are at least partially defined by the identification of later-occurring segments. It is a particular feature that an internal string of consonants, i.e., a string of consonants preceded and followed by a vowel, is split into two portions, namely, a second portion which is contained in a database of onsets, and an earlier portion which, together with the preceding vowel or vowels, is contained in a database of rimes.

The present system proposes a technique called the spectro-temporal varying technique, to compute the suppression gain. This method is motivated by the perceptual properties of human auditory system; specifically, that the human ear has higher frequency resolution in the lower frequencies band and less frequency resolution in the higher frequencies, and also that the important speech information in the high frequencies are consonants which usually have random noise spectral shape. A second property of the human auditory system is that the human ear has lower temporal resolution in the lower frequencies and higher temporal resolution in the higher frequencies. Based on that, the system uses a spectro-temporal varying method which introduces the concept of frequency-smoothing by modifying the estimation of the a posteriori SNR. In addition, the system also makes the a priori SNR time-smoothing factor depend on frequency. As a result, the present method has better performance in reducing the amount of musical noise and preserves the naturalness of speech especially in very noisy conditions than do conventional methods.

A keyboard for a hand held computer device including an array of keys representing characters of an alphabet of a language, wherein the array includes: (a) keys representing frequently used vowel characters of said alphabet arranged together in series; (b) keys representing frequently used consonant characters of said alphabet arranged adjacent to said keys representing vowel characters; and (c) keys representing infrequently used consonant characters of said alphabet arranged in positions remote from said keys representing vowel characters, wherein the keys representing frequently used consonant characters are arranged in alphabetical order around the keys representing the vowel characters.

The invention provides a pinyin input method based on a touch screen and a device, which are applicable to the technical field of intelligent terminals. The method includes steps that a second virtual keyboard is outputted according to inputted to-be-selected characters inputted by a user via a first virtual keyboard, the second keyboard is used for displaying the to-be-selected characters and vowels relevant to the to-be-selected characters, the first virtual keyboard consists of 23 initial consonants and a Chinese character, the to-be-selected characters are fixed in the touch screen and positioned on central keys of the second virtual keyboard, and the vowels relevant to the to-be-selected characters are distributed on other keys remained on the second virtual keyboard; to-be-selected initial consonants inputted by a user via the second virtual keyboard are received; and a corresponding Chinese character is outputted according to the inputted to-be-selected characters and the to-be-selected initial consonants. By the aid of the pinyin input method, purposes of improving service convenience of users, reducing input error rate and enhancing input efficiency are achieved.

A device designed to teach the Amharic language and standardize its script, including a computer keyboard containing a number of keys, including: an initial group of n biunivocal keys corresponding to n most frequent consonants or main consonants shown in the order 6; a second group of biunivocal keys, with a ≦n corresponding respectively to the main consonants presenting under order 1; a third group of biunivocal keys corresponding respectively to consonants other than the main consonants or secondary consonants presenting under order 6; and a keypad of eight silent keys corresponding respectively to eight orders, where pressing one of the silent keys on this keypad before pressing a biunivocal key corresponding to a main consonant or a secondary consonant will result in printing the main or secondary consonant under the order corresponding to the silent layer.

The invention relates to a speech recognition text correction method and device, computer equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the steps of obtaining pinyin of each word in a recognition text obtained through speech recognition; determining a candidate text based on a corpus and the fuzzy sound of the sound unit in the pinyin of each word; Wherein the sound unit comprises at leastone of an initial consonant, a vowel and an overall recognition pronunciation section; determining an editing distance corresponding to the candidate text according to the word number difference between the recognition text and the candidate text, the total pinyin alphabet number and the total word number; and screening a correction text from the candidate text according to the editing distance. By adopting the editing distance method provided by the invention to screen the correction text of the candidate text, the speech recognition text can be effectively corrected when the recognition textis long, and the correction accuracy is improved.

A device and a method to be used by laryngeally impaired people to improve the naturalness of their speech. An artificial sound creating mechanism which forms a simulated glottal pulse in the vocal tract is utilized. An artificial glottal pulse is compared with the natural spectrum and an inverse filter is generated to provide an output signal which would better reproduce natural sound. A digital signal processor introduces a variation of pitch based on an algorithm developed for this purpose; i.e. creating prosody. The algorithm uses primarily the relative amplitude of the speech signal and the rise and fall rates of the amplitude as a basis for setting the frequency of the speech. The invention also clarifies speech of laryngectomees by sensing the presence of consonants in the speech and appropriately amplifying them with respect to the vowel sounds.

The invention relates to a Pinyin input method and a terminal thereof. The Pinyin input method is applied to a portable complete touch control screen terminal. The Pinyin input method comprises the following steps of: when entering a Pinyin input mode, displaying an initial consonant arrangement table and a plurality of vowel initials which are arranged at the periphery of each initial consonant key of the initial consonant table and can be combined with the initial consonants; selecting the initial consonant from the initial consonant arrangement table displayed by the touch control screen and selecting the needed vowel initial from the vowel initials which are displayed at the periphery of the initial consonants and can be combined with the initial consonants; displaying all Pinyin combinations which begin with the initial consonant and the vowel initial; and selecting the Pinyin combination needing to be input from the displayed all Pinyin combinations which begin with the initial consonant and the vowel initial.

The invention provides a method for inputting Chinese characters and a terminal. The method includes the following steps: a. after entering into a Chinese character inputting mode, an initial consonant permutation table is displayed; b. initial consonants are selected from the displayed initial consonant permutation table; c. corresponding to the selected initial consonants, a final sound permutation table is displayed; d. final sounds are selected from the displayed final sound permutation table; e. corresponding to a syllable formed by the selected initial consonants and the final sounds, a Chinese character permutation table is displayed; and f. the Chinese character to be input is selected from the displayed Chinese character permutation table.

A system extends the high-frequency spectrum of a narrow band audio signal in the time domain. The system extends the harmonics of vowels by introducing a non linearity in a narrow band signal. Extended consonants are generated by a random-noise generator. The system differentiates the vowels from the consonants by exploiting predetermined features of a speech signal.