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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1997
Hideo Tsuiki, Tokyo, JP;
Kikuji Miyazaki, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A voice reproduction device including a voice data accumulation unit, a voice data editing unit for editing and outputting voice data accumulated at the voice data accumulation unit and a voice reproduction unit for reproducing voice from voice data output from the voice data accumulation unit and outputting the voice, the voice data accumulation unit including a common voice data memory for storing voice data of a voice piece common to every user and an individual voice data memory for storing voice data prepared individually for each user. A branch code including information designating voice data of utterances to be read from the individual voice data memory is inserted between voice data of utterances stored in the common voice data memory, with voice data editing unit controlling switching between operation of reading voice data from the common voice data memory and that of reading voice data from the individual voice data memory to sequentially output read voice data to the voice reproduction unit.