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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2001
Applicant:
Takashi Yazu, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Takashi Yazu, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2006.01); G10L 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A voice synthesis apparatus for analyzing characters including a symbol character and for outputting the characters by voice synthesis, includes a first detection module that detects a paragraph section having a repetition of a plurality of kinds of a symbol based on a character column in one line; and a voice synthesis module for performing voice synthesis for a rest of character column and deleting the symbol character column interval from the character line.