Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Takashi Izumi

Takeshi Yumura

Hiroki Ohnishi

Masanori Miyatake

Masashi Ochiiwa

Naoyuki Yoden

Shoji Takeda

Terukazu Sawada

A speech synthesis apparatus for synthesizing speech from text data, having a voice characteristic, a tone, a rhythm, etc. which corresponds to the contents of edition on the text data displayed on a screen, by converting a volume, a speed, a pitch, a voice characteristic, etc. of a voice on judging the contents of the edition, such as an edition of a size, a spacing, a font and so on of a character, on the text data displayed on a screen.

Speech synthesis apparatus with output editing

A karaoke apparatus, a speech reproducing apparatus and a medium on which is recorded a computer program used therefor which output narration of synthesized speech including a requested song name, a requester's name or the like together with an introduction or an interlude of a song, thereby to relieve the boredom of participants during the introduction or the interlude, or the apparatus and the medium which synthesize speech of a chorus, or convert a characteristic of speech input thorough a microphone into a speech characteristic of a professional singer or the like thereby to excite participants.

Karaoke apparatus, speech reproducing apparatus, and recorded medium

A speech synthesis apparatus for synthesizing speech to read out a text in place of a reader at a speed corresponding to a set time and the text volume, a medium on which is recorded a computer program for reading out a text in place of a reader, an apparatus for calculating time necessary for a reader to finish reading out a text on the basis of the reader's speech characteristic data of a prescribed word or sentence, and a medium on which is recorded a computer program for calculating the read out time.

Speech synthesis apparatus and read out time calculating apparatus to

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Gifu, Japan

Takashi Izumi