摘要 |
PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of editing operation by extracting characters between at least one kid of symbols such as parentheses, brackets, quotation marks, etc., from a stored document and changing the quality of the tone of its sentences and voicing them. CONSTITUTION:When the document stored in a text memory 21 is outputted from a speech output part 33, a sentence between one kind of symbols such as parentheses, brackets, quotation marks, etc., is extracted from the document in the memory 21 by a extraction part 101 and then compared with a phrase to be outputted from the output part 33 by a comparison part 102. Then when the phrase to be outputted constitutes one of the extracted sentences, a speech tone change command signal S51 is outputted and the output part 33 which receives the output changes the tone of the speech to be outputted and then outputs it. |