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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1995
Takeshi Yumura, Neyagawa, JP;
Hiroki Ohnishi, Hirakata, JP;
Masanori Miyatake, Hirakata, JP;
Masashi Ochiiwa, Ogaki, JP;
Takashi Izumi, Anpachi-gun, JP;
Terukazu Sawada, Ibaraki, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
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.