To provide a device and a method for reading sentence by which a present reading position in a sentence can be grasped, the operability in the case of listening to the sentence again can be improved, the safety during car driving can be kept and the number of characters in the sentence to read can be grasped.
A paragraph element is formed corresponding to each of paragraphs of sentences, a first indicator A for displaying a paragraph element corresponding to a paragraph under reading in a form different from the other paragraph element and a second indicator B for displaying the position of a character under reading in the paragraph under reading are formed on a touch panel 11 so that any arbitrary paragraph element and any arbitrary character position can be selected, and when any paragraph element is selected, reading is started from a paragraph corresponding to the selected paragraph element or when any character position is selected, reading is started from a character corresponding to the selected character position.
MIMURA YUICHI
TOKURA KENJI
NIITSUMA TERUO
SUKAI KAZUYOSHI
HASEGAWA TAKAAKI
JPH07210185A | 1995-08-11 | |||
JP2001117574A | 2001-04-27 | |||
JP2000250909A | 2000-09-14 |
WO1999037344A1 | 1999-07-29 |