PRONUNCIATION DISPLAY DEVICE, PRONUNCIATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the pronunciation of a tonal language in an easily understandable way.SOLUTION: A pronunciation display device 10 includes a conversion unit 27 and a creation unit 28. The conversion unit 27 converts a vocal sound per syllable of a second language that is a tonal language into a plurality of first phonetic symbols indicating the pronunciation of a first language. The creation unit 28 creates a phonetic diagram one for each syllable of the second language. The phonetic diagram has a first straight line and the plurality of first phonetic symbols. The first straight line is a line that is long in a first direction indicating the boundary of high and low pitches of sound. The plurality of first phonetic symbols are placed in an area corresponding to the high and low pitches of sound among a plurality of areas divided by the first straight line and arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.