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Title:
READING-ALOUD APPARATUS AND PROGRAM THEREFOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2006317876
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a reading-aloud apparatus capable of deciding, without depending on user's memory, as to whether the user has ever listened to the web-contents, when the user is listening to the voice of a voice browser reading aloud the web-contents, and to provide a program therefor.

The reading-aloud apparatus which converts a part to be read out in the contents into voice to read it aloud comprises a storage device control means that makes a storage device store the read information, showing that when the reading-out object part has been read aloud, the read part which is the read-out object part read-aloud in the above has been read aloud; and a reading-aloud means that reads aloud the above read part, when reading it aloud, by a method of presenting it in sounds different from those when an unread part is read aloud.


Inventors:
WATANABE MASAHIRO
ASANO YOKO
OKANO AYA
Application Number:
JP2005143038A
Publication Date:
November 24, 2006
Filing Date:
May 16, 2005
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE
International Classes:
G06F3/16; G10L13/00; G10L13/08; G10L13/10
Domestic Patent References:
JP2001350692A2001-12-21
JP2003316565A2003-11-07
JP2004240217A2004-08-26
JP2005077663A2005-03-24
JP2003241798A2003-08-29
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Shinichi Kawakubo