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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2020
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinari Shirai, Tokyo, JP;
Sanae Fujita, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A speech output method carried out by a speech output system that includes a first terminal, a server, and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal carries out: a first label assignment step of assigning label data to character strings that are included in content, the label data representing attributes of speakers in a case where the character strings are to be read aloud by using synthetic speech; and a transmission step of transmitting the label data to the server, the server carries out a saving step of saving the label data transmitted from the first terminal, in a database, in association with content identification information that identifies the content, and the second terminal carries out: an acquisition step of acquiring label data that corresponds to the content identification information regarding the content, from the server.