摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of upgrading the data stream of multimedia data having a textual description feature, that is, a method for efficiently expressing a specific part and word with sounds in a high-level text type multimedia description system. SOLUTION: The data stream includes a group of sound conversion hints besides textual description, and these phonetic transcription hints determine the phonetic expression of a part or a word of text description. Consequently, it is unnecessary to repeat the phonetic transcription each time the same word appears after the phonetic transcription of textual description is once determined, and the phonetic transcriptions of a described text are individually handled, and the data volume required for storage and transmission of the described text is thus reduced. |