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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2008
Applicants:
Keiichi Toiyama, Osaka, JP;
Mitsuteru Kataoka, Osaka, JP;
Kohsuke Yamamoto, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The text information presentation device calculates an optimum readout speed on the basis of the content of text information being input, its arriving time, and its previous arriving time; speech-synthesizes text information being input, at the readout speed calculated; and outputs it as an audio signal, or alternatively controls the speed at which a video signal is output according to an output state of the speech synthesizing unit.