A speech synthesizing apparatus extracts small speech segments from a speech waveform as a prosody control target and adds inhibition information for inhibiting a predetermined prosody change process to a selected small speech segment in executing prosody control. Prosody control is performed by performing...http://www.google.com.tw/patents/US7054815?utm_source=gb-gplus-share專利 US7054815 - Speech synthesizing method and apparatus using prosody control