To provide a method of converting character information into speech by which the contents of a document to be read aloud is changed according to the kind of a speech to be outputted.
In a speech converting method for document, character data 7 in the form of electronic data are inputted from an input device 1 and the kind of a speech is selected and inputted from a speech selection picture 21; and a conversion processing device 3 extracts a character string in normal representation to be converted from the inputted character data 7 on the basis of a selected kind of speech and replaces the extracted part with a character string in unique representation, and outputs the converted character data as text data 8 or speech data 9 from an output device.
Akira Yamatani
Yoshiyoshi Ogasawara
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