摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate intermediate language information to which the most suitable pause corresponding to a preliminarily given limit time has been inserted, from an input text sentence.SOLUTION: Pause insertion priorities of positions in input intermediate language information are determined, and a difference between a preliminarily given limit time of synthesized speech and an utterance time of the input intermediate language information is calculated as a pause time, and the position of a pause is determined in accordance with pause insertion priorities of the positions and the pause time, whereby intermediate language information to which the most suitable pause corresponding to the preliminarily given limit time has been inserted can be generated. |