VOICE EMPHASIS DEVICE AND VOICE EMPHASIS METHOD

摘要

A voice emphasis device, which produces the “strain” voice at a position where a speaker or user intends to give an emphasis or musical expression, thereby adding anger, excitement, nervousness, emphasis by cheerful utterance, and musical expression of “enka” song, blues, rock and the like to realize rich vocal expression, is provided with an emphasis utterance section detection unit (12) that detects, out of input voice waveforms, an emphasis section of a time section when a speaker who produces the input voice waveforms intends to make the voice waveform change; and a voice emphasis unit (13) that increases fluctuation of an amplitude envelope of a voice waveform, out of the input voice waveforms, that is included in the emphasis section detected by the emphasis utterance section detection unit (12).