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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speech synthesizer capable of outputting a speech given prosody matching a scene. SOLUTION: A speech synthesizer includes an impression-added vocabulary information storage section which stores vocabulary information and one or more pieces of impression-added vocabulary information including impression group information having one or more pieces of impression information of vocabulary, an impression prosody relation information storage section which stores impression prosody relation information as information showing the relation between the vocabulary and prosody information, an output information storage section which stores output information having one or more pieces of vocabulary information, an impression group information acquisition section which acquires impression group information paired with the vocabulary information that the output information has from the vocabulary information storage section, a prosody information determination section which determines prosody information of vocabulary based upon the impression prosody relation information and impression group information, and a speech output section which outputs the output information according to the prosody information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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