VOICE SYNTHESIZER, VOICE SYNTHESIS METHOD, VOICE SYNTHESIS SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR VOICE SYNTHESIS

摘要

To provide a voice synthesizer capable of applying appropriate accent to synthesized voice generated with respect to text data comprising a word phrase to which characters are given with readings.SOLUTION: A voice synthesizer comprises: a text analysis section 11 for dividing text data into combinations of morphemes by performing morphological analysis on the text data comprising a word phrase to which characters are given with readings; an extraction section 12 for extracting the morpheme included in the word phase to which the characters are given with readings in the morphemes included in the combinations of the morphemes; a coupling determination section 13 for determining whether the morpheme included in the word phrase to which the characters are given with readings forms a compound word with the morpheme continuing to a front side or a back side of the morpheme; and an accent appling section 14 for applying an accent as a whole compound word when the morpheme included in the word phrase to which the characters are given with readings forms the compound word.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2