摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a text and telephone conference system and method capable of allowing both of participants by text and participants by speech to discriminate who performs issuing. <P>SOLUTION: A text and telephone conference system 100 acquires attribute information indicating whether apparatuses being used by conference participants other than an issuing person are PCs, IP telephones, or land-line phones with referring to a participant DB 102 when the participant performs issuing. When the issuing is performed by text from a PC, the system converts the text into speech data by speech synthesis means 104 through the use of the kind of a voice source corresponding to the issuing person from a voice source DB 106, distributes the converted speech data to the IP telephones and land-line phones, and also distributes text data from the original issuing person to the PCs of the other conference participants using the PCs. When the issuing is performed by speech, the speech is converted into a text by voice recognition means 105, the converted text is distributed to the PCs, and also the speech from the original issuing person is distributed to the IP telephones and land-line phones. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |