In a speech synthesis process, micro-segments are cut from acquired waveform data and a window function. The obtained micro-segments are re-arranged to implement a desired prosody, and superposed data is generated by superposing the re-arranged micro-segments, so as to obtain synthetic speech waveform data. A spectrum correction filter is formed based on the acquired waveform data. At least one of the waveform data, micro-segments, and superposed data is corrected using the spectrum correction filter. In this way, "blur" of a speech spectrum due to the window function applied to obtain micro-segments is reduced, and speech synthesis with high sound quality is realized.

 
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