Inventor
AKAMINE MASAMI
JP44 patents
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TOSHIBA KK
41 patentsUS6553343B1Apr 22, 2003
Speech synthesis method
TOSHIBA KK171 citations99
US6339758B1Jan 15, 2002
Noise suppress processing apparatus and method
TOSHIBA KK206 citations99
US6167375ADec 26, 2000
Method for encoding and decoding a speech signal including background noise
TOSHIBA KK178 citations99
US5230036AJul 20, 1993
Speech coding system utilizing a recursive computation technique for improvement in processing speed
TOSHIBA KK245 citations99
US6161091ADec 12, 2000
Speech recognition-synthesis based encoding/decoding method, and speech encoding/decoding system
TOSHIBA KK90 citations97
US5864798AJan 26, 1999
Method and apparatus for adjusting a spectrum shape of a speech signal
TOSHIBA KK112 citations97
US6240384B1May 29, 2001
Speech synthesis method
TOSHIBA KK77 citations96
US6202046B1Mar 13, 2001
Background noise/speech classification method
TOSHIBA KK58 citations96
USRE36721EMay 30, 2000
Speech coding and decoding apparatus
TOSHIBA KK45 citations96
US6064962AMay 16, 2000
Formant emphasis method and formant emphasis filter device
TOSHIBA KK103 citations96
US5819213AOct 6, 1998
Speech encoding and decoding with pitch filter range unrestricted by codebook range and preselecting, then increasing, search candidates from linear overlap codebooks
TOSHIBA KK60 citations96
US5265167ANov 23, 1993
Speech coding and decoding apparatus
TOSHIBA KK108 citations96
US5150387ASep 22, 1992
Variable rate encoding and communicating apparatus
TOSHIBA KK85 citations95
US7184958B2Feb 27, 2007
Speech synthesis method
TOSHIBA KK19 citations93
US6760703B2Jul 6, 2004
Speech synthesis method
TOSHIBA KK27 citations93
US6704702B2Mar 9, 2004
Speech encoding method, apparatus and program
TOSHIBA KK36 citations93
US6332121B1Dec 18, 2001
Speech synthesis method
TOSHIBA KK22 citations93
US5990962ANov 23, 1999
Video preprocessing device with motion compensation prediction processing similar to that of a main prediction processing device
TOSHIBA KK21 citations93
US5890118AMar 30, 1999
Interpolating between representative frame waveforms of a prediction error signal for speech synthesis
TOSHIBA KK30 citations93
US5671327ASep 23, 1997
Speech encoding apparatus utilizing stored code data
TOSHIBA KK24 citations93
US6427135B1Jul 30, 2002
Method for encoding speech wherein pitch periods are changed based upon input speech signal
TOSHIBA KK37 citations92
US5926785AJul 20, 1999
Speech encoding method and apparatus including a codebook storing a plurality of code vectors for encoding a speech signal
TOSHIBA KK32 citations92
US5878387AMar 2, 1999
Coding apparatus having adaptive coding at different bit rates and pitch emphasis
TOSHIBA KK33 citations92
US5677986AOct 14, 1997
Vector quantizing apparatus
TOSHIBA KK25 citations92
US5400399AMar 21, 1995
Speech communication apparatus equipped with echo canceller
TOSHIBA KK45 citations92
US5214741AMay 25, 1993
Variable bit rate coding system
TOSHIBA KK39 citations92
US6529874B2Mar 4, 2003
Clustered patterns for text-to-speech synthesis
TOSHIBA KK24 citations89
US8380500B2Feb 19, 2013
Apparatus, method, and computer program product for judging speech/non-speech
TOSHIBA KK8 citations84
US7251601B2Jul 31, 2007
Speech synthesis method and speech synthesizer
TOSHIBA KK10 citations84
US6748358B1Jun 8, 2004
Electronic speaking document viewer, authoring system for creating and editing electronic contents to be reproduced by the electronic speaking document viewer, semiconductor storage card and information provider server
TOSHIBA KK20 citations84
US9269347B2Feb 23, 2016
Text to speech system
TOSHIBA KK9 citations82
US5786859AJul 28, 1998
Video coding/decoding apparatus with preprocessing to form predictable coded video signal portion
TOSHIBA KK16 citations82
US8370139B2Feb 5, 2013
Feature-vector compensating apparatus, feature-vector compensating method, and computer program product
TOSHIBA KK8 citations81
US7191120B2Mar 13, 2007
Speech encoding method, apparatus and program
TOSHIBA KK9 citations74
US6202048B1Mar 13, 2001
Phonemic unit dictionary based on shifted portions of source codebook vectors, for text-to-speech synthesis
TOSHIBA KK8 citations73
US8046225B2Oct 25, 2011
Prosody-pattern generating apparatus, speech synthesizing apparatus, and computer program product and method thereof
TOSHIBA KK3 citations63
USRE36646EApr 4, 2000
Speech coding system utilizing a recursive computation technique for improvement in processing speed
TOSHIBA KK4 citations63
US11270683B2Mar 8, 2022
Interactive system, apparatus, and method
TOSHIBA KK1 citations62
US11417319B2Aug 16, 2022
Dialogue system, dialogue method, and storage medium
TOSHIBA KK0 citations52
US10847151B2Nov 24, 2020
Dialogue system and dialogue method
TOSHIBA KK0 citations51
US9454963B2Sep 27, 2016
Text to speech method and system using voice characteristic dependent weighting
TOSHIBA KK1 citations49