1. A prosody editing apparatus comprising: a storage configured to store attribute information items of phrases and one or more first prosodic patterns corresponding to each of the attribute information items of the phrases; a search unit configured to search the storage for one or more second prosodic patterns corresponding to an attribute information item that matches an attribute information item of a predetermined phrase, the second prosodic patterns being included in the first prosodic patterns; a mapping unit configured to map each of the second prosodic patterns on a low dimensional space to generate mapping coordinates, the mapping coordinates being used to suppress a first prosodic pattern which is not assumed normally, wherein a first distance between coordinates of the first prosodic pattern and coordinates of a target prosodic pattern is not within a first threshold; a selection unit configured to obtain coordinates selected from the mapping coordinates as selected coordinates; a restoring unit configured to restore a second prosodic pattern according to the selected coordinates to obtain a restored prosodic pattern; and a replacing unit configured to replace prosody of synthetic speech generated based on the predetermined phrase by the restored prosodic pattern.
1. A prosody editing apparatus comprising: a storage configured to store attribute information items of phrases and one or more first prosodic patterns corresponding to each of the attribute information items of the phrases; a search unit configured to search the storage for one or more second prosodic patterns corresponding to an attribute information item that matches an attribute information item of a predetermined phrase, the second prosodic patterns being included in the first prosodic patterns; a mapping unit configured to map each of the second prosodic patterns on a low dimensional space to generate mapping coordinates, the mapping coordinates being used to suppress a first prosodic pattern which is not assumed normally, wherein a first distance between coordinates of the first prosodic pattern and coordinates of a target prosodic pattern is not within a first threshold; a selection unit configured to obtain coordinates selected from the mapping coordinates as selected coordinates; a restoring unit configured to restore a second prosodic pattern according to the selected coordinates to obtain a restored prosodic pattern; and a replacing unit configured to replace prosody of synthetic speech generated based on the predetermined phrase by the restored prosodic pattern. 9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein if a second distance between the selected coordinates and the mapping coordinates is not more than a second threshold, the restoring unit obtains a fourth prosodic pattern before mapping the mapping coordinates as the restored prosodic pattern.