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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1998
Shichiro Miyashita, Yamato, JP;
Takashi Saito, Tokyo-to, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The reception part,outputs the text and the header of the received electronic mail to the voice synthesizing part,. The voice font switching part,outputs the sander ID contained in the header to the voice font searching part,. The voice font searching part,searches the voice feature data in the voice font database part,to have voice feature data in which the user ID contained in the header of the voice feature data matches the sender ID sent to the rhythm control part,and the voice generating part,. The rhythm control part,, the voice generating part,and the voice output part,read the content of the text in a voice feature indicated by the phonemes contained in the supplied voice feature data and generates a voice signal characterized by rhythm data contained in the header of the voice feature data for output.