| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a voice guiding device, etc., which can prevent infringements of the right of portrait and the copyright of a character voice and also with which a user can purchase only a desired character voice. <P>SOLUTION: When a character selection signal CS1 is input from a control part 1, a character switching part 64 performs an authentication query of whether the right of use of a selected character shown by the character selection signal CS1 is acquired or not to an authentication processing part 66. When right presence or absence information corresponding to the selection character shows "presence" based on authentication management data 68, the authentication processing part 66 returns an authentication result that the right of use of the character is acquired to the character switching part 64, and the part 64 outputs a character switching signal CS3 to a sound piece searching part 58 and a phonetic piece searching part 62 and makes parts 58, 62 switch a character of a sound piece DB 50 and a phonetic piece DB to be retrieval objects. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |
