DOCUMENT READING-ALOUD DEVICE

• Main Authors: KOSAKA TOMOYA, KONO YASUHITO, TAKANO TOMOHIRO, HOSOYA MIO, YONEMURA SHUNICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.04.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a document reading-aloud device which actualizes the improvement of listener's amusement and convenience by changing sound quality, document contents, intonation, and a voice synthesizing engine according to personal information on a document creator, area information using the reading- aloud device, etc. SOLUTION: The document reading-aloud device which converts a text document into a voice and reads an electronic document aloud is equipped with a creator information extraction part 3 which extracts at least one of pieces of information representing the creator of the object document to be read aloud, the sex, the hometown, address, and the language of the document, a sound quality determination part 4 which determines at least one of the pitch, strength, and vocalizing speed of a synthesized voice and a synthesized voice dictionary when the object document 2 is read aloud, a voice synthesizing engine 1 which generates the synthesized voice of the object document 2 according to the sound quality determined by the sound quantity determination part 4, and a synthesized voice output part 5 outputs the synthesized voice of the voice synthesizing engine 1 to a speaker 6.