ELECTRONIC MAIL READING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND RECORDED MEDIUM FOR TEXT CONVERSION

摘要

A text shaping unit (101) of an electronic mail reading device analyzes the format of a quoted portion of the text part of an electronic mail text and deletes quoting symbols so as to shape the quoted portion into a text of a format in units of one sentence. During this processing, command tags for commanding reading out loud before and after the quoted portion are inserted. A text converting unit (105) conducts text-conversion from a difficult-to-understand expression to an easy-to-understand expression. During this processing, command tags are also inserted before and after the converted portion. A speech synthesizing unit (108) synthesizes a speech of the text according to the command tags while controlling the speech synthesization, thus eventually converting an electronic mail text to an easy-to-understand speech.