SPEECH SYNTHESIZER, METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING SPEECH, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM WITH SPEECH SYNTHESIZING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that proper reading according to contents of a text is impossible heretofore without detecting a keyword. SOLUTION: This speech synthesizer for outputting a synthesized tone corresponding to an inputted text is provided with a means to read in character information corresponding to the inputted text, a means to detect a characteristic of a format of the inputted text according to a character code or position information in the read in character information, and a means to generate the synthesized tone according to the characteristic of the detected format.