JP2003233385A - Terminal with electronic mail function and computer program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To sufficiently eliminate an unpleasant sensation when the contents of electronic mail are read. <P>SOLUTION: A portable telephone set 1 stores in a memory 8 an address book in which telephone numbers and electronic mail addresses for identifying individuals and voice profiles representing the features of voices that the individuals speak are correlated with each other. When the electronic mail address of a sender of electronic mail is stored in the address book and the voice profile corresponding to the electronic mail address is stored in the address book, the portable telephone set 1 reads the corresponding voice profile and generates a voice based upon the read voice profile to output the contents of the electronic mail with the generated voice. The contents of the electronic mail are read aloud with the voice having the features of the sender himself/ herself of the electronic mail to sufficiently eliminate an unpleasant sensation when the contents of the electronic mail are listened. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic mail function-equipped terminal capable of outputting the contents of electronic mail by voice and a computer program executed by the electronic mail function-equipped terminal.

[0002]

Conventionally, mobile phones having an electronic mail function have been provided, and in recent years, it has been considered that the contents of the electronic mail are read out by outputting the contents of the electronic mail by voice. Has been. As one of them, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-339137 discloses
It describes that the contents of the electronic mail are output by a sound suitable for the sex, the age, etc. of the sender of the electronic mail by using the storage of personal information such as the gender and the age. According to this, the sender of the email is, for example, 2
If you are a woman in her 0s, the content of the email will be read aloud by the voice of the woman in her 20s at the sender of the email, and you will be able to eliminate the discomfort when listening to the content of the email. it can.

However, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2000-33913.
According to the publication No. 7, the sender of the e-mail is determined based on sex, age, etc., so the contents of the e-mail cannot be read aloud by the sender of the e-mail. In addition, the feeling of strangeness when listening to the contents of an email has not been sufficiently resolved.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to sufficiently eliminate the discomfort at the time of listening to the contents of an electronic mail at the receiver of the electronic mail. To provide a terminal with an electronic mail function and a computer program that can improve usability.

[0005]

According to the electronic mail function-equipped terminal described in claim 1, the storage means associates the personal identification information for identifying the individual with the voice profile representing the characteristics of the voice uttered by the individual. And stored, and the control means
If the sender of the electronic mail is identified by the personal identification information stored in the storage means and the voice profile corresponding to the sender of the electronic mail is stored in the storage means, the corresponding voice profile is stored. The voice is generated based on the read voice profile by the voice generation unit, and the content of the electronic mail is output from the voice output unit by the voice generated by the voice generation unit.

Therefore, if the sender of the electronic mail is identified by the personal identification information at the receiver of the electronic mail and the voice profile corresponding to the sender of the electronic mail is stored, the content of the electronic mail is changed to the electronic mail. Will be read aloud in a voice having the characteristics of the sender of the message, which can sufficiently eliminate the discomfort when listening to the contents of the electronic mail, and enhance the usability.

According to the electronic mail function-equipped terminal of the second aspect, the control means receives the voice transmitted from the other party as the transmitted voice as the received voice by the received voice receiving means. The voice profile of the other party is generated based on the analyzed result, and the generated voice profile is stored in the storage means. Profiles can be generated and stored,
There is no need to perform any special work to generate and store the voice profile, and the usability can be further enhanced.

According to the electronic mail function-equipped terminal of the third aspect, the control means determines that the receiving party voice receiving means receives the receiving voice as the receiving voice, and the receiving party receives the voice as the receiving party. When identified by the personal identification information stored in the storage means, the received voice is analyzed, a voice profile of the other party of the call is generated based on the analyzed result, and the generated voice profile is calculated. Since it is configured to be stored in the storage means, personal identification information for identifying the sender who frequently sends an e-mail is stored, so that the voice profile of the calling party who frequently sends the e-mail is generated. Can be memorized.

According to the terminal with electronic mail function of the fourth aspect, the control means, when analyzing the voice received by the received voice receiving means, causes the storage means to already store the voice profile of the other party. Then, a new voice profile is generated by adding the result analyzed this time to the voice profile already stored in the storage means, and the newly generated voice profile is stored in the storage means. With this configuration, as the number of calls increases, a voice profile that appropriately represents the characteristics of the voice uttered by the other party can be generated and stored,
It is possible to more fully eliminate the feeling of strangeness when listening to the contents of an email.

According to the electronic mail function-equipped terminal of the present invention, the control means displays on the display means a display message asking whether to output the content of the electronic mail by the voice generated by the voice generation means. Then, when the user's operation is accepted by the operation accepting unit, the content of the electronic mail is permitted or prohibited to be output from the voice output unit by the voice generated by the voice generating unit.

Therefore, in a situation where there is no fear of causing any trouble to the surroundings even if the content of the electronic mail is read aloud, the content of the electronic mail can be read aloud by performing an operation permitting the output of voice. On the other hand, in a situation where the content of an email may be annoying to others when it is read aloud, such as in a train, the content of the email may be read aloud by performing an operation that prohibits the output of voice. Therefore, it is possible to avoid causing trouble to the surroundings.

According to the terminal with an electronic mail function described in claim 6, the control means outputs the voice guidance asking whether or not to output the content of the electronic mail by the voice generated by the voice generating means. When the voice uttered by the user is input by the voice input means, the content of the electronic mail is permitted or prohibited to be output from the voice output means by the voice generated by the voice generating means. .

Therefore, in a situation where there is no fear of causing any trouble to the surroundings even if the contents of the electronic mail are read aloud, by issuing a voice permitting the output of voice,
The content of the email can be read aloud, while in a situation where the content of the email may disturb the surroundings when the content of the email is read aloud, by issuing a voice that prohibits the output of voice, It is possible to prevent the contents of the electronic mail from being read aloud, and to avoid annoying the surroundings. In this case, in particular, it is possible to select whether to permit or prohibit the output of voice by uttering some voice instead of performing some operation, which is effective, for example, when driving a car. Is.

According to the computer program described in claim 7, when the computer program is installed and executed in a terminal with an electronic mail function, the procedure for identifying the sender of the electronic mail by the personal identification information and the sending of the electronic mail. When the original is identified by the personal identification information, the procedure for determining whether or not the voice profile corresponding to the source is stored, and the voice profile corresponding to the source is determined to be stored. At this time, a procedure of reading the corresponding voice profile, a procedure of generating a voice based on the read voice profile, and a procedure of outputting the content of the electronic mail by the generated voice will be executed. Therefore, it is possible to obtain the same operational effect as that described in claim 1 above.

That is, when the sender of the electronic mail is identified by the personal identification information at the sender of the electronic mail and the voice profile corresponding to the sender of the electronic mail is stored, the content of the electronic mail is the electronic mail. Will be read aloud in a voice having the characteristics of the sender of the message, which can sufficiently eliminate the discomfort when listening to the contents of the electronic mail, and enhance the usability.

According to the computer program of the eighth aspect, when the computer program is installed in an electronic mail function-equipped terminal and executed, the voice transmitted from the other party as the transmitted voice and analyzed as the received voice is analyzed. The procedure for performing, the procedure for generating the voice profile of the other party on the basis of the analyzed result, and the procedure for storing the generated voice profile are executed. It is possible to obtain the same effect as that of the one.

That is, the voice profile can be generated and stored in the course of a normal call, and it is not necessary to perform any special work for generating and storing the voice profile, and the usability is further enhanced. You can

[0018]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION (First Embodiment) A first embodiment in which the terminal with an electronic mail function of the present invention is applied to a mobile phone having an electronic mail function will be described with reference to FIGS. explain. First, FIG. 1 shows a functional block diagram of a mobile phone. The mobile phone 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing) mainly composed of a microcomputer.
Unit) 2 (control means according to the present invention), communication unit 3 (received voice receiving means according to the present invention) for performing communication processing with a communication network (including a mobile telephone network and a fixed telephone network), and a user. Microphone 4 that inputs the voice uttered by the user as the transmitted voice
And a speaker 5 that outputs the voice uttered by the other party as the received voice, and a large number of "power" key, "call start" key, "call end" key, "number" keys of "0" to "9", etc. A keypad 6 (operation accepting means in the present invention) in which keys are arranged, a liquid crystal display 7 (displaying means in the present invention) for displaying date / time, telephone number, contents of electronic mail and the like, and RAM (Random Access Memory) and R
A memory 8 (a storage unit referred to in the present invention) including an OM (Read Only Memory) and a voice generation unit 9 (a voice generation unit referred to in the present invention) that generates a voice are connected to each other.

As shown in FIG. 2, the memory 8 has a plurality of addresses (for example, telephone number), e-mail address, name, address and voice profile as one address book (telephone book) function. It is configured to be able to store (register) 200 pieces of personal information. Here, the voice profile is an index representing the characteristics of the voice uttered by an individual, and is a data group in which high and low frequencies, speed, accent, accent, etc. are digitized based on a predetermined algorithm.

Specifically, in FIG. 2, "Voice Profile A" is an index representing the characteristics of the voice uttered by the user who uses the telephone having the telephone number "NNNNNNNNN01", and "Voice Profile C". Is the phone number "NNNN
"NNNNN03" is an index representing the characteristics of the voice made by the user who makes a call using the telephone, and "voice profile D" is the characteristic of the voice made by the user who makes a call using the telephone of the phone number "NNNNNNNNN04". Is an index representing. In this case, the telephone number and the electronic mail address correspond to the personal identification information in the present invention. Also, FIG.
Inside, "N" that represents a telephone number and "x" that represents an e-mail address correspond to any numbers or letters that are permitted to be used.

The voice generation unit 9 generates a voice based on the voice profile stored in the memory 8, that is, a voice representing the characteristics of a voice uttered by an individual. And CPU
2 executes the control program (the computer program in the present invention) to perform the following processing. The CPU 2 has a timer function.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described with reference to FIG.
It will be described with reference to FIGS. In the following description, each of (1) a process of generating and storing a voice profile and (2) a process of outputting a voice based on the voice profile will be sequentially described.

(1) Process for Generating and Storing Voice Profile First, the process for generating and storing a voice profile will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.
When the CPU 2 detects that the call is started (“YES” in step S1), the CPU 2 determines whether or not the telephone number of the call partner is notified from the communication network (step S2). Here, when the CPU 2 detects that the telephone number of the other party is notified from the communication network (“YE” in step S2).
S ”), the address book stored in the memory 8 is searched (step S3), and it is determined whether the telephone number of the communication partner notified from the communication network matches the telephone number stored in the address book. It is determined (step S4). Then, the CPU 2 detects that the telephone number of the communication partner notified from the communication network matches the telephone number stored in the address book (“YE” in step S4).
S ”), the voice transmitted from the other party as the transmitted voice and received by the communication unit 3 as the received voice is analyzed based on a predetermined algorithm (step S5).

Next, when the CPU 2 finishes analyzing the voice received from the other party, it determines whether or not the voice profile corresponding to the telephone number of the other party notified from the communication network is stored in the address book. (Step S
6). Here, when the CPU 2 detects that the voice profile corresponding to the telephone number of the call partner notified from the communication network is not stored in the address book (“NO” in step S6), the voice of the call partner is analyzed. A voice profile is generated based on the result thus obtained (step S7), and the generated voice profile is stored in the memory 8 (step S8).

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the CPU 2 is in a state where a voice profile corresponding to a telephone number "NNNNNNNNN02" is not stored in the address book.
Assuming that the telephone number of the other party is "NNNNNNNNN02", the voice of the other party whose telephone number is "NNNNNNNNN02" is analyzed, and a voice profile "voice profile B" is generated based on the analyzed result. Then, as shown in FIG. 4, the generated “voice profile B” is stored in the memory 8.

On the other hand, when the CPU 2 detects that the voice profile corresponding to the telephone number of the communication partner notified from the communication network is already stored in the address book ("YES" in step S6). A new voice profile is generated by adding (averaging) the results analyzed this time to the voice profile already stored in the address book (step S9), and the newly generated voice profile is stored in the memory. 8 (step S
8).

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the CPU 2 stores the "voice profile C" as a voice profile corresponding to the telephone number "NNNNNNNNN03" in the address book, while Phone number is "NN
NNNNNNN03 ", the telephone number is" NN
NNNNNNN03 "is used to analyze the voice of the other party, and a new voice profile called" voice profile C '"is created by adding the results of this analysis to the" voice profile C "already stored in the address book. Then, as shown in FIG. 5, the newly generated “voice profile C
″ ”Is stored in the memory 8.

By such control, in the mobile phone 1, when the telephone number of the other party is stored in the address book during the course of a normal call, a voice profile showing the characteristics of the other party's voice is displayed. It becomes possible to memorize.

(2) Process for outputting voice based on voice profile Next, a process for outputting voice based on the voice profile will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. When the CPU 2 detects that the operation of reading the e-mail by the user is accepted by the keypad 6 (“YES” in step S11), the area of the sender of the read e-mail is referred to and the e-mail is read. The e-mail address of the sender is acquired (step S12). Then, the CPU 2 searches the address book stored in the memory 8 (step S13), and determines whether the e-mail address of the sender of the e-mail matches the e-mail address stored in the address book. It is determined (step S14).

When the CPU 2 detects that the electronic mail address of the sender of the electronic mail and the electronic mail address stored in the address book match ("YES" in step S14), It is determined whether or not a voice profile corresponding to the email address of the sender of the email is stored (step S15).
Then, when the CPU 2 detects that the voice profile corresponding to the e-mail address of the sender of the e-mail is stored (“YES” in step 15), FIG.
As shown in, a display message asking whether or not to read the contents of the e-mail (for example, "Do you read e-mail?") Is displayed on the liquid crystal display 9 (step S16), and a predetermined time (for example, 10 seconds). ) Is started (step S17).

Next, the CPU 2 indicates that the operation for permitting the user to read the contents of the electronic mail (here, the operation of the "1" key) is accepted by the keypad 6 before the timer times out. Is detected (“YES” in step S18), the corresponding voice profile is read from the memory 8 (step S19), and the voice generation unit 9 generates a voice based on the read voice profile (step S20). And CPU2
Causes the speaker 5 to output the content of the previously read e-mail with the generated voice (step S2).
1).

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the CPU 2 stores the "voice profile D" in the address book as the voice profile corresponding to the e-mail address "xxxxd@xx.xx.xx", for example. Assuming that the electronic mail whose sender's electronic mail address is “xxxxd@xx.xx.xx” is read in the state where the “voice profile D” is read from the memory 8, the read “voice profile D” is read. Is generated by the voice generation unit 9. Then, the CPU 2 causes the speaker 5 to output the content of the e-mail whose previously read e-mail address is “xxxxd@xx.xx.xx” by the sound generated based on the “speech profile D”.

On the other hand, the CPU 2 accepts, through the keypad 6, an operation (in this case, operation of the "3" key) of prohibiting the reading of the contents of the electronic mail by the user before the timer times out. When it is detected that the timer has timed out (“YES” in step S22) or before any operation is received by the keypad 6, it is detected (step S2).
3 "YES"), and thereafter, the content of the previously read e-mail is not output from the speaker 5 by voice.

By such control, the mobile phone 1 reads out the electronic mail, stores the electronic mail address of the sender of the read electronic mail in the address book, and the electronic mail of the sender of the electronic mail. When the voice profile corresponding to the address is stored in the address book, a voice based on the voice profile is generated, and the content of the read email is generated by the generated voice,
That is, it is possible to output the voice that represents the characteristics of the voice of the sender of the electronic mail.

By the way, in the structure described above,
In the mobile phone 1, the contents of the e-mail may be displayed on the liquid crystal display 7 at the same time that the contents of the e-mail are output by voice from the speaker 5. Further, the content of the electronic mail may be displayed on the liquid crystal display 7 triggered by the reception of the operation of prohibiting the reading of the content of the electronic mail. Further, the content of the electronic mail may not be displayed on the liquid crystal display 7 when the operation for permitting the reading of the content of the electronic mail is accepted.

Further, as the content of the electronic mail, only the body of the electronic mail may be read aloud, or the sender of the electronic mail, the date and time of reception, the title, etc. may be read aloud, and these can be selected. May be

As described above, according to the first embodiment, in the mobile phone 1, the telephone number or electronic mail address for identifying an individual and the voice profile representing the characteristics of the voice uttered by the individual are associated with each other. If the email address of the sender of the email is identified by the address book and the voice profile corresponding to the email address is stored in the address book, the corresponding voice profile is read out and read out. Since the voice is generated based on the generated voice profile and the content of the email is output by the generated voice, the content of the email is read aloud by the voice having the characteristics of the sender of the email. As a result, it is possible to eliminate the feeling of strangeness when listening to the content of an email, and to use it. It is possible to increase the selfishness.

When the mobile phone 1 starts a call, if the telephone number of the other party is stored in the address book, the received voice is analyzed and the other party's telephone number is analyzed based on the analyzed result. Generate a voice profile,
Since it is configured to store the generated voice profile, the voice profile can be generated and stored in the course of a normal call, and some special work is required to generate and store the voice profile. There is no need to do it, and usability can be improved. Further, by storing in the address book the telephone number of the sender who frequently sends e-mail, it is possible to generate and store the voice profile of the other party who frequently sends the e-mail.

When the mobile phone 1 analyzes the voice received from the call partner, and the voice profile of the call partner is already stored, the stored voice profile is added to this time. A new voice profile is created by adding the analyzed results, and the newly created voice profile is stored, so that the more the number of calls, the more appropriate the characteristics of the voice uttered by the other party are. The expressed voice profile can be generated and stored, and the discomfort at the time of listening to the contents of the electronic mail can be more sufficiently resolved.

Further, the mobile phone 1 displays a display message asking whether or not to read the contents of the electronic mail, and permits or prohibits reading the contents of the electronic mail according to the operation of the user. With this configuration, if there is no risk of disturbing others even if the content of the email is read aloud, read the content of the email by reading the content of the email. On the other hand, in a situation where the contents of the email may disturb the surroundings when the contents of the email are read aloud, for example, by reading the contents of the email by performing an operation of prohibiting the reading of the contents of the email. It is possible to prevent the content from being read aloud, and to avoid annoying the surroundings.

(Second Embodiment) Next, a second embodiment in which the electronic mail function-equipped terminal of the present invention is applied to an automobile telephone having an electronic mail function will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9. Here, the description of the same parts as those described in the first embodiment will be omitted.

First, FIG. 8 shows a functional block diagram of an automobile telephone. The mobile phone 11 includes a handset (handset) 12, a cradle (telephone body) 13 to which the handset 12 is attachable and detachable, and a radio 14 (received voice receiving means in the present invention) for performing communication processing with a communication network. It is configured with.

The handset 12 includes a CPU 15 (control means in the present invention) mainly composed of a microcomputer, a call control section 16, a keypad 17, a liquid crystal display 18, and a memory 19 (storage means in the present invention). A voice generation unit 20 (voice generation means in the present invention) that generates a voice and a detection switch 21 that mechanically detects whether or not the voice is attached to the cradle 13 are connected.

In this case, the CPU 15 holds the handset 12 for the user to carry out a handset call, and when the detection switch 21 detects that the handset 12 is not attached to the cradle 13, the voice path of the call control unit 16 is set to the wireless device. 14 and microphone 22 for handset
(Voice input means in the present invention) and handset speaker 23 (voice output means, voice guidance output means in the present invention) are switched to be connected. On the other hand, CP
U15 places the handset 12 on the cradle 13 so that the user can make a hands-free call, and the handset 12
The switch 2 detects that the
1, the voice path of the call control unit 16 is detected by the wireless device 14, the hands-free microphone 24 (voice input means in the present invention), and the hands-free speaker 25.
(Voice output means and voice guidance output means in the present invention) are switched to be connected. The hands-free microphone 24 is mounted inside the vehicle at a position suitable for collecting voices emitted by the driver, and the hands-free speaker 25 is incorporated in the cradle 13.

Similar to the memory 8 described in the first embodiment, the memory 19 has one address book function for each component of a telephone number, an electronic mail address, a name, an address and a voice profile. The voice generation unit 20 has a function similar to that of the voice generation unit 9 described in the first embodiment. Further, the cradle 13 is configured to include a wireless device interface unit 26 that controls transfer of voice and data to and from the wireless device 14. And CPU1
5 executes the control program to perform the following processing.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described with reference to FIG.
Will be described with reference to. In addition, here, the handset 12
Will be explained on the assumption that is mounted on the cradle 13. In the second embodiment, the CPU 15 executes "(1)
"Process for generating and storing voice profile" is the same as that described in the first embodiment, and "(2) Process for outputting voice based on voice profile" is described above. Different from the one described in the first embodiment, instead of displaying a display message asking whether to read the contents of the electronic mail, a voice asking whether to read the contents of the electronic mail is displayed. Guidance (eg "yo", "mi", "a", "ge",
"Ma", "Su", "Ka") hands-free speaker 2
5 is output (step S31), and a timer for counting a predetermined time (for example, 10 seconds) is started (step S17).

Then, the CPU 15 outputs a voice (for example, "Yo", "Mi", "A") that permits the user to read the contents of the electronic mail before the timer times out.
When “voice”, “ma”, “su”) is uttered and it is detected that the uttered voice is input by the hands-free microphone 24 (“YES” in step S32), the corresponding voice is output from the memory 19. The profile is read (step S19), and the voice generation unit 20 generates voice based on the read voice profile (step S19).
20) Then, the CPU 15 causes the handsfree speaker 25 to output the content of the previously read e-mail by the generated voice (step S21).

On the other hand, the CPU 15 outputs a voice (for example, "Yo", "Mi", etc.) prohibiting the user from reading the contents of the electronic mail before the timer times out.
"A", "ge", "ma", "se", "n") is detected, and it is detected that the emitted voice is input by the hands-free microphone 24 ("YES" in step S33). ), Or if it is detected that the timer has timed out before any voice is input through the handsfree microphone 24 (step S23).
"YES"), and thereafter, the content of the previously read e-mail is not output from the handsfree speaker 25 by voice.

The above description is based on the assumption that the handset 12 is attached to the cradle 13, but when the handset 12 is not attached to the cradle 13, the contents of the e-mail are read aloud. Voice guidance asking whether or not to carry out is output from the handset speaker 23, and voice for permitting or prohibiting reading of the content of the electronic mail is input to the handset microphone 22.

As described above, according to the second embodiment, the mobile phone 11 outputs the voice guidance asking whether or not to read the contents of the electronic mail, and according to the voice uttered by the user, Since it is configured to allow or prohibit reading the contents of the email, the contents of the email can be read in a situation where the contents of the email do not disturb the surroundings. The content of the e-mail can be read aloud by issuing the permission voice, while the content of the e-mail can be annoyed when the content of the e-mail is annoying if it is read aloud, such as in a train. By uttering a voice that prohibits reading the text, it is possible to prevent the content of the email from being read aloud, which causes annoyance to others. It is possible to avoid in advance the door.

Particularly, in this case, unlike the one described in the above-mentioned first embodiment, the voice output based on the voice profile is generated by uttering some voice instead of performing any operation. Since it is possible to select whether to permit or prohibit the above, it is effective for such a mobile phone 11.

(Other Embodiments) The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, but can be modified or expanded as follows. The terminal with an e-mail function is not limited to a telephone such as a mobile phone or a car phone, but may be another terminal such as a mobile information terminal having an e-mail function. The speaker that outputs the voice generated based on the voice profile and the speaker that outputs the voice uttered by the other party as the received voice may be separately provided.

The telephone number is used as personal identification information for identifying the other party, and the electronic mail address is used as personal identification information for identifying the sender of the electronic mail. Alternatively, other information may be used to identify the sender of the email. It may be configured to display a display message asking whether to read the contents of the email at the same time as outputting voice guidance asking whether to read the contents of the email, which can be selected. It may be configured. Further, the display format of the display message and the output format of the voice guidance may be different. If the address book can be transferred between the mobile phone and the car phone, for example, when the mobile phone talks, the voice profile is stored, the voice profile is transferred from the mobile phone to the car phone, and the car phone sends an email. It may be configured to output a voice based on the voice profile stored in the mobile phone when read out.

The control program executed by the CPU is not limited to one installed in the CPU from the beginning (for example, at the stage of commercialization), but may be downloaded from a specific server through a communication network or from a recording medium such as a card. It may be transferred and installed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing the configuration of an address book.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a process of generating and storing a voice profile.

FIG. 4 is a view corresponding to FIG.

FIG. 5 is a view corresponding to FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a process of outputting a sound based on a sound profile.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display.

FIG. 8 is a functional block diagram showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a view corresponding to FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

In the drawings, 1 is a mobile phone (terminal with an e-mail function), 2
Is a CPU (control unit), 3 is a communication unit (received voice receiving unit), 6 is a keypad (operation receiving unit), 7 is a liquid crystal display (display unit), 8 is a memory (storage unit), and 9 is a voice generation unit. (Voice generating means), 11 is an automobile telephone (terminal with electronic mail function), 14 is a wireless device (received voice receiving means), 20 is a voice generating section (voice generating means), 22 is a handset microphone (voice inputting means). , 23 is a handset speaker (voice output means, voice guidance output means), 24 is a hands-free microphone (voice input means), and 25 is a hands-free speaker (voice output means, voice guidance output means).

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[Claims] 1. A terminal with an electronic mail function, comprising a control means capable of outputting the contents of an electronic mail by voice from a voice output means, wherein personal identification information for identifying an individual and characteristics of a voice emitted by the individual are represented. And a voice generation unit configured to generate a voice based on the voice profile stored in the storage unit, wherein the control unit stores the source of the electronic mail in the storage unit. When the voice profile identified by the personal identification information stored in the means and corresponding to the sender of the electronic mail is stored in the storage means, the corresponding voice profile is read from the storage means, A voice based on the read voice profile is generated by the voice generation means, and the content of the electronic mail is generated by the voice generation means. A terminal with an electronic mail function, wherein the voice output means outputs the generated voice. 2. The electronic mail function-equipped terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a receiving voice receiving unit that receives, as a receiving voice, a voice transmitted as a transmitting voice from a communication partner, and the control unit receives the receiving voice. Means for analyzing a voice received by the means, generate a voice profile of a communication partner based on the analyzed result, and store the generated voice profile in the storage means. . 3. The electronic mail function-equipped terminal according to claim 2, wherein the control means receives the received voice by the received voice receiving means when the communication partner is identified by the personal identification information stored in the storage means. A terminal with an e-mail function, characterized by analyzing the generated voice, generating a voice profile of the other party on the basis of the analyzed result, and storing the generated voice profile in the storage means. 4. The electronic mail function-equipped terminal according to claim 2, wherein the control unit, when analyzing the voice received by the received voice receiving unit, stores the voice profile of the other party in the storage unit. When already stored in, the voice profile already stored in the storage means,
A terminal with an electronic mail function, wherein a new voice profile is generated in consideration of the result analyzed this time, and the newly generated voice profile is stored in the storage means. 5. The electronic mail function-equipped terminal according to claim 1, further comprising: display means for displaying a display message, and operation accepting means for accepting a user operation, wherein the control means is an electronic device. When the display means displays a display message asking whether to output the content of the mail from the voice output means by the voice generated by the voice generation means, and when the user operation is accepted by the operation acceptance means. A terminal with an e-mail function, which permits or prohibits that the content of the e-mail is output from the sound output means by the sound generated by the sound generation means. 6. The terminal with an electronic mail function according to claim 1, further comprising: a voice guidance output unit for outputting voice guidance, and a voice input unit for inputting a voice uttered by a user, The control means causes the voice guidance output means to output a voice guidance asking whether to output the content of the electronic mail from the voice output means by the voice generated by the voice generation means, and the voice uttered by the user is A terminal with an electronic mail function, which permits or prohibits the content of an electronic mail from being output from the audio output means by the audio generated by the audio generation means when input by the audio input means. 7. A computer program executed by an electronic mail function-equipped terminal, wherein a procedure for identifying a sender of an electronic mail by personal identification information, and a case where the sender of an electronic mail is identified by personal identification information To determine whether or not the voice profile corresponding to the sender is stored, and to read the corresponding voice profile when it is determined that the voice profile corresponding to the sender is stored. A computer program for executing a procedure, a procedure for generating a voice based on the read voice profile, and a procedure for outputting the content of an electronic mail by the generated voice. 8. The computer program according to claim 7, wherein a procedure of analyzing a voice transmitted as a transmission voice from a communication partner and received as a reception voice, and a voice profile of the communication partner based on the analyzed result. A computer program for executing a procedure for generating a voice and a procedure for storing the generated voice profile.