JP3460964B2 - Speech reading method and recording medium in multimedia information browsing system - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a voice reading method in a multimedia information browsing system for browsing multimedia information and reading the voice.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional voice-to-speech system, a system user causes a browser to display multimedia information, and from among the displayed multimedia information,
Select the information the user wants to read aloud,
The selected information is read aloud by the voice synthesizer.

[0003]

In the conventional multimedia information browsing system, when the multimedia information desired by the user is displayed on the screen and the information on the screen is read aloud according to the user's request, It is basically to read out the text displayed in the text as it is displayed.

In such a conventional system, when the information displayed on the screen is read aloud, the speed at which the user follows the displayed text with his or her eyes is usually faster than the speed at which the sound is reproduced. Therefore, the user's attention to the information deviates. In this case, in order to match the user's attention point to the information, the user may move his or her eyes to match the speed of the voice, or the playback position of the voice may be changed each time. Need to be dealt with.

That is, in the above-mentioned conventional example, when the information displayed on the screen is read aloud,
There is a problem that the user's eye-tracking speed differs from the voice reproduction speed due to the difference between the speed at which the user visually follows the text on the screen, and the user's attention point to the information deviates.

[0006] Further, the user can roughly scan the information displayed on the screen, but in order to understand the reproduced voice at the same speed as the above-mentioned non-scanning, the voice must be read. It is necessary to speed up the playback speed and play back in fast-moving sound, or read only the beginning of a sentence or paragraph. That is, the above-mentioned conventional example has a problem that the convenience of operation of the reading system and the utilization of the system are impaired.

The present invention provides a voice reading method in a multimedia information browsing system which allows a user to read and read the reproduced voice information in the same manner as the displayed information without paying attention to the voice reproduction speed. The purpose is to do.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is based on this type of multimedia.
How to read aloud in a system for browsing media information
In the law, regarding the above-mentioned book type multimedia information,
Create a correspondence table in which text information and importance levels correspond
Correspondence table creation stage and page turning speed of books by users
Set the speed setting step and the current display page number
Set the reading pointer based on the relevant position information.
Reading pointer setting step and the above reading pointer
The importance according to the information indicated by is obtained from the above correspondence table
The degree of importance and the importance obtained from the above correspondence table are
If it is higher than the importance corresponding to the speed of turning pages,
To synthesize the information indicated by the reading pointer
Therefore, the voice reproduction stage that reads out the voice in conjunction with the display
A multimedia information browsing system characterized by having
How to read aloud in Tem.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a voice reading device 100 in a multimedia information browsing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

The voice reading device 100 in the multimedia information browsing system is a device effective for a system which virtually displays a book, a card or the like on a computer display and expresses the displayed information by voice. In the following, a case will be described in which a physical book is virtually displayed on a computer display and the information displayed on the display is read aloud.

The voice reading device 100 includes a display 1, a screen information control unit 2, an input unit 3, a model information storage database 4, an information summary processing unit 5, a model information summary database 6, and information selection. It has a section 7, a main turning speed-importance degree correspondence table 8, a speaker 9, and a voice synthesizer 10.

The display 1 allows the user to browse information,
The screen information control unit 2 is a display for displaying book-type information stored in the system for selection.
Is for displaying this type of information on the display 1 and for controlling the voice reading to be performed in response to a request from the user. The input unit 3 performs voice reading to the screen information control unit 2. In order to receive the input from the user.

The main model information storage database 4 is a database that stores contents for displaying information in the main format on the display 1, and the information summarization processing section 5 determines the degree of importance of each piece of information that constitutes the main model information. The main model information summary database 6 is a database that stores the relationship between each piece of information that forms the main model information and the degree of importance corresponding to each piece of information.

The information selecting section 7 only displays information of importance or higher, which corresponds to the speed of turning pages of the book being browsed by the user.
The book-turning speed-importance degree correspondence table 8 which is a selection unit extracted from the book-type information summary database 6 is important for extracting a summary to be read aloud at the speed of turning the pages of the book and the speed of turning the pages of the book. Is a correspondence table in which degrees are associated with each other, and the voice synthesizer 10 is a voice synthesizer that reproduces voice from the speaker 9.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the voice reading device 100.

In the flowchart shown in FIG. 2, first, when a request input by the user through the input unit 3 is discriminated (S1) and information is displayed on the screen, the screen information control unit 2 outputs the input command. The type is determined (S2), and the main mold information stored in the main mold information storage database 4 is displayed on the display 1 (S3).

When a physical book is virtually represented on the display 1, for example, a desired book is selected from a plurality of virtual books by advancing by one page or returning by one page. As a method of virtually displaying and utilizing a physical book on the display 1 as described above, for example, a book information search / display method described in JP-A-6-574396 or JP-A-7-78168. The display of information of this type disclosed in the information retrieval processing device and method disclosed in the publication is known.

Next, the information summarization processing unit 5 extracts the importance of each of various information contained in the selected virtual page in the information of this format, based on the model information storage database 4. Yes (S4).

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of main form information that can be used in the above embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a correspondence table in which the predetermined information of the main type information shown in FIG. 3 and the degree of importance of the predetermined information correspond to each other in the above embodiment.

When extracting the importance of the predetermined information, according to the sentence of the heading such as the chapter title sentence and the section title sentence in the structure of the main type information, or the importance information previously given to the main type information, The importance of the predetermined information is extracted, and the extracted importance is included in the correspondence table shown in FIG.

In the correspondence table shown in FIG. 4, predetermined information is described on the right side thereof, and a numerical value indicating the degree of importance of the information is described on the left side thereof. Corresponding results created in order from the head of the model information. It is stored in order from the top of the table.

For example, the headline "Voice recognition technology", which is described most largely in FIG. 3, is considered to have the highest importance, is given an importance of 5, is stored in the correspondence table, and is then described in a slightly larger size. The heading "Voice recognition?", Which is thought to be the second most important, is given an importance level of 4, is stored in the correspondence table, and the heading "Voice recognition technology" is listed next. Is considered to be the third most important, is given an importance degree of 3, and is stored in the correspondence table. The ordinary sentence "towa, so to speak" is considered to have the lowest importance, and the importance degree of 1 is given. "Computer ears" that have been assigned, stored in the correspondence table, and expressed as highlighted correspondences (with "")
Is assigned importance 3 and stored in the correspondence table.

Next, the correspondence table in which the respective information obtained in step S4 and the degree of importance thereof correspond to each other is stored in the main model information summary database 6 (S5).

Then, the input unit 3 acquires the speed at which the user is flipping through the pages of the book virtually displayed on the display 1 (S6). For example, the number of pages turned over in one second may be considered as the page turning speed. In this embodiment, the number of pages turned over in one second is considered as the page turning speed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a correspondence table in which the speed of turning a book and the importance of information to be read at that time are associated with each other in the above embodiment.

The book-turning speed-importance degree correspondence table 8 is a correspondence table in which the book-turning speed and the degree of importance of information to be read at that time correspond to each other. In the above-mentioned embodiment, in the correspondence table shown in FIG. 5, when three pages are turned over in one second, the information having the importance level of 3 or more is read aloud.
When turning over four pages per second, the information having the degree of importance of 4 or more is read out, and when turning over five pages or more per second, the information having the degree of importance of 5 or more is read out.

At this time, information about which part of the book is displayed is also acquired. For example, information such as a page number of a book, a chapter / section number, and the number of lines of the book may be adopted as the information of the display portion of the book. In the above embodiment, the page number is adopted as the information of the display portion of the book.

Then, the information selecting section 7 obtains information indicating which part of the book is displayed from the input section 3, refers to the book-type information summary database 6, and refers to the page number of the book currently displayed. The position information corresponding to is searched out, and the position information is set in the database as a reading pointer (S7).

Next, the information selection unit 7 receives the book-turning speed from the input unit 3, and the book-turning speed in which the page-turning speed of the book and the importance of the information corresponding to the page-turning speed correspond to each other. With reference to the speed-importance correspondence table 8, the numerical value of the importance of information is obtained based on the speed of turning the book (S
8).

Then, the information selection unit 7 refers to the model-type information summary database 6 to obtain the degree of importance of the information according to the information indicated by the above-mentioned reading pointer ((S9)).
The value of the degree of importance of the obtained information is compared with the value of the degree of importance obtained from the page turning speed of the book (S10),
If the numerical value of the importance of the information indicated by the reading pointer is equal to or higher than the numerical value of the importance corresponding to the reading speed, the information is sent to the speech synthesizer 33 (S11), the reading pointer is advanced (S12), and the information selecting unit 7 is selected. The voice synthesizing device 10 converts the information extracted in S to voice and reproduces it in the speaker 9 (S).
13).

After that, the process returns to step S6 again, and the above-described operations (S6 to S13) are continued until there is an instruction to stop reading aloud from the input unit 3 or until the end of this type information. If the value of the importance of the information indicated by the reading pointer is less than the value of the importance obtained from the reading speed, the reading pointer is advanced without sending the information to the speech synthesizer 33 (S12).

That is, basically, if the page turning speed of the book is high to some extent, the information indicated by the pointer is not read out. However, even if the page turning speed of the book is somewhat fast, if the importance of the information indicated by the pointer is high to some extent,
Read the information aloud.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the relationship between the page-turning speed of the book and the contents of the summary to be read, for the book-type information shown in FIG.

In the example shown in FIG. 6, the book-turning speed is set to 5
When set to, only "Voice recognition technology" is played as a summary, but when the book-turning speed is set to 3, "Voice recognition technology What is voice recognition? A lot of sentences such as "..." are reproduced as a summary. In other words, the faster the book-turning speed, the shorter the sentence to be voice-synthesized, and the slower the book-turning speed, the more the speech is synthesized.

That is, in the above embodiment, each piece of information included in the multimedia information has a unique importance, and weighting information corresponding to each importance is added to each information and added. The length of the sentence to be voice-synthesized changes depending on the weighting information. Therefore, in the above-described embodiment, the information can be "listened" like a book being read.

That is, in the above embodiment, in the voice reading method in the system for browsing multimedia information, the display speed at which the predetermined multimedia information is displayed on the display corresponds to the information to be read at the display speed. A correspondence table creating step of creating a correspondence table, a summary creating step of creating a summary of the multimedia information by extracting predetermined information from the correspondence table among the information to be displayed on the display, And a summary voice reproduction step of reproducing the generated summary by voice, in a multimedia information browsing system.

According to this embodiment, a sentence as a summary of multimedia information is reproduced by voice without reproducing a huge amount of information included in the multimedia information desired by the user by voice over a huge amount of time. It can be played at and can quickly understand the summary of multimedia information. On the contrary, while reading the summary of the multimedia information by the voice reading device, if the user wants to know the details, the detailed sentence can be reproduced or the summary sentence can be read again by operating the browsing system. In addition, since each of the above information is given a weight (weighted), only the information with the highest weight is extracted, and a page is added to each of them to create a table of contents. You can The table of contents may be created by extracting the information to which the second and third highest importance levels are given. Then, using the table of contents created in this way, desired multimedia information may be searched for.

That is, in the above embodiment, in the voice reading method in the system for browsing this type of multimedia information, the speed of turning the pages of the book displayed on the display and the information to be read at that speed correspond to each other. The correspondence table creation step of creating the correspondence table, and the book-type multimedia by extracting predetermined information from the correspondence table among the information corresponding to the speed of turning the pages of the book displayed on the display. A method for reading a voice in a multimedia information browsing system, comprising: a summary creating step of creating a summary of information; and a summary voice playing step of playing back the summary by voice according to a page turning speed.

According to this embodiment, the user can turn the pages of the book virtually displayed on the display of the browsing system by using the chapters and sections included in the structure of the book from the book-type multimedia information. By converting the speed and the information to be read at that time into a correspondence table, when the user quickly turns over the book virtually displayed on the display of the book-type multimedia information browsing system, the book-type information is displayed. Can be read aloud, while the user can read the contents in more detail if they turn over later, and understand the book-type multimedia information in a short time with the same sense as flipping a book. can do.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a voice reading device 200 in the multimedia information browsing system according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

The voice reading device 200 in the multimedia information browsing system makes the information of the home page of WWW (World Wide Web) distributed on the Internet cooperate with the generally widely used WWW browser to read the home page information by voice. It is a voice reading device.

The voice reading device 200 in the multimedia information browsing system includes a display 24.
, WWW browser 25, input unit 26, Internet 27, information summary processing unit 28, homepage information summary database 29, information selection unit 30, scroll speed-importance degree correspondence table 31, speaker 32, and And a voice synthesizer 33.

The display 24 is an HTML (Hyper Text Ma) stored on the Internet for the user to browse and select information on the home page.
rkup Language) is a display that displays the information defined.

The WWW browser 25 is a browser for performing control for displaying homepage information on the display 24. The input unit 26 is a unit that receives an input from the user in order to scroll up and down the screen of the home page that cannot be displayed on the display 24 by the WWW browser 25 or to read aloud.

The Internet 27 has a display 24.
The information of the home page is stored in order to display the information of the home page on the information summarization processing unit 28.
Is a processing unit that extracts the degree of importance from the HTML information of the home page. Homepage information summary database 29
Is a database that stores the relationship between homepage information and its importance.

The information selection unit 30 extracts information of importance or higher corresponding to the speed at which the user scrolls the screen of the homepage being browsed up and down from the homepage information summary database 29. The scroll speed-importance degree correspondence table 31 is a correspondence table in which the speed at which the user scrolls the screen of the homepage being browsed up and down and the importance degree for obtaining the summary to be read at that speed are associated with each other. . The voice synthesizer 33 is a device that reproduces voice from the speaker 32.

Next, the operation of the voice reading device 200 will be described. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the voice reading device 200.

First, the request input by the user via the input unit 26 is determined (S21), the WWW browser 25 determines the type of the input command (S22), and the home page stored on the Internet 27 is searched. The information is displayed on the display 24 (S23).

Then, the information summarization processing section 28 receives the HTML format document of the currently displayed homepage from the WWW browser 25, and the importance of each information included in the homepage information correspondingly expressed in the HTML format. To extract.

In the HTML document, the function names are "<" and ">".
It is a document represented by tags enclosed in. This tag has functions such as home page title, chapter heading, emphasis, etc. For example, if you pay attention to "<TITLE> Future of Japan </ TITLE>", "<TITLE>
"The future of Japan" surrounded by ">" and "</ TITLE>" is the title sentence of this home page. By paying attention to these tags, it can be considered that the information of the home page includes a certain degree of importance information in advance, and accordingly, from the HTML document, the information of each information constituting the HTML document is The degree of importance can be calculated.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of home page information. FIG. 10 shows the home page information shown in FIG.
It is the figure shown by the TML document. FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of correspondence between HTML tags and importance levels in the above embodiment. FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a correspondence table showing the importance and the document information created from the HTML document shown in FIG. 10 based on the importance information shown in FIG.

In the voice reading device 200, FIG.
Prepare a correspondence table in which the HTML tag and the degree of importance as shown in FIG.
When the TML document is received by the information summarization processing unit 28, the tag included in the correspondence table is operated from the beginning of the HTML document while referring to the correspondence table shown in FIG. When the information is found, the numerical value of the importance corresponding to the found tag and the document surrounded by the tags are extracted, so that the predetermined information and the importance information of the predetermined information are extracted as shown in FIG. Create a correspondence table corresponding to.

Information that is not included in the correspondence table is determined to be information that is not necessary for reading aloud and is not included in the correspondence table. The above operation is repeated until the end of the HTML document.

The correspondence table shown in FIG. 12 is a table in which information is written on the right side thereof, and numerical values indicating the importance of the information are written on the left side thereof. As a result of operating in order from the beginning of the HTML document. Are stored in order from the top of the correspondence table.

In FIG. 12, for example, "<H1>"
Surrounded by "</ H1>" and the heading level is 1
"Introduction" is stored in the above correspondence table as importance level 5, and the ordinary sentence "This time, please purchase this product ..." is stored as importance level 1 and the heading level. "Introduction" with 1 is stored as importance level 5, and "Feature of this product" with heading level 2 is
It is stored as importance level 4. The heading level indicates the degree of emphasizing the heading, such as the size of characters in the heading.

Then, the information summarization processing unit 28 stores the correspondence table composed of the importance degree information obtained in step S24 and the information in the homepage information summarization database 29 (S25).

Next, the input unit 26 acquires how fast the user is scrolling the screen displayed on the display 24. For example, the number of dots or lines scrolling in one second is acquired. In this embodiment, the number of lines scrolled per second is considered as the speed at which the user is scrolling (S2).
6).

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a scroll speed-importance degree correspondence table 31 in the voice reading device 200.

The scroll speed-importance degree correspondence table 31 is a correspondence table in which the scroll speed of the browser screen and the importance degree of the information to be read at that time correspond to each other.
In FIG. 13, when scrolling three lines per second, the importance level is set to "3", and when scrolling four lines per second, the importance level is set to "4".
When scrolling five lines or more per second, the importance level is set to "5".

Further, the display position on the home page is acquired. As the display position, for example, the number of lines in the text of the home page or the number of characters from the beginning of the information may be used.

Next, the information selecting section 30 receives the position of the home page currently displayed by the user from the input section 26, refers to the home page information summary database 29, and displays the position of the home page currently displayed by the user. In response to this, the corresponding position information is searched for, and the found position information is set on the database as a reading pointer (S27).

Then, the information selecting unit 30 receives the speed of scrolling the screen of the WWW browser 25 from the input unit 26, and the speed of scrolling the screen and the importance of the information to be read correspond to each other. By referring to the degree correspondence table 31, a numerical value of the degree of importance of the information to be read is obtained based on the speed of scrolling the screen (S28).

Next, the information selecting section 30 carries out step S27.
The information indicated by the reading pointer set in step 3 is referred from the homepage information summary database 29 (S2).
9).

Then, the numerical value of the importance of the information indicated by the reading pointer is compared with the numerical value of the importance corresponding to the speed at which the screen is scrolled (S30), and the numerical value of the importance of the information indicated by the reading pointer is determined. If it is equal to or higher than the value of the importance corresponding to the reading speed, the information currently indicated by the reading pointer is taken out from the homepage information summary database 29 and sent to the speech synthesizer 33 (S3).
1), the information selection unit 30 advances the reading pointer on the homepage information summary database 29 to the next information (S32). Then, the voice synthesizer 33 converts the information extracted by the information selecting unit 30 into voice, and reproduces it from the speaker 32 (S33).

On the other hand, if the numerical value of the importance of the information indicated by the reading pointer is less than the numerical value of the importance corresponding to the reading speed, the information indicated by the reading pointer is not retrieved from the home page information summary database 29, and the home page information summary is obtained. The reading pointer on the database 29 is advanced to the next information (S32).

That is, basically, if the scrolling speed is high to some extent, the information indicated by the pointer is not read out. However, even if the scroll speed is high to some extent, if the importance of the information indicated by the pointer is high to some extent, the information is read aloud.

Then, the process returns to step S26 again, and the above processes (S26 to S33) are executed until there is an instruction to stop reading aloud from the input unit 26 or until the process at the end of the homepage information ends.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of the relationship between the scroll speed and the contents of the abstract to be read in the voice reading device 200.

In FIG. 14, when the scroll speed is set to 5, only "Introduction" is reproduced as a summary, but when the scroll speed is set to 3,
A large number of sentences are played back as a summary, such as "Introduction Introduction Features of this product High cost performance and processing power ...", and the faster the scroll speed, the shorter the sentence to be voice synthesized and the slower the scroll speed. A lot of sentences are speech-synthesized.

That is, in the above-described embodiment, weighting information is added to each of the individual pieces of information included in the multimedia information according to the degree of importance, and the text to be speech-synthesized is added according to the added weighting information. Because the length changes, you can "listen" for information as if you were reading a book.

[0073] The eyes are swept over to read the book and refer to the summary of information quickly. However, when reading a book, conventionally, by speeding up the reproduction speed of audio, a tape or a tape is used. Information can be heard quickly only with the sound of fast-moving records,
Often, not even a summary of the information, I don't even understand what I'm saying. However, in the above embodiment, the main points are extracted from the multimedia information and read aloud.
You can quickly get a summary of the information, and if you want to know more about the desired content while reading the main points, you can read the original information containing the main points, so flip through the pages of the book. However, desired information can be searched for, and flipping pages and pages to search for information can be done in the same manner as flipping pages and pages to search for information.

Similarly to the above, when the user creates a table of contents for the home page information on the Internet based on the weighting information and the user specifies the reading position of the information, the reading position is read based on the created table of contents. The user can select.

That is, in the above-mentioned embodiment, in the voice reading method in the system for browsing home page information on the Internet, the heading tag or the emphasis tag information included in advance in the home page information is referred to and the screen of the home page is scrolled. Predetermined information from the correspondence table creation step of creating a correspondence table in which the speed and the information to be read at that speed correspond, and the information corresponding to the speed of scrolling the homepage information displayed on the above display From the correspondence table, the multimedia information browsing has a step of creating a summary of the homepage information, and a summary voice reproduction step of reproducing the summary by voice according to the scrolling speed of the homepage information. With the voice reading method in the system That.

According to this embodiment, the home page information is to be read aloud at the speed at which the user scrolls the screen of the browser system by using information such as heading tags and emphasis tags included in the HTML language structure. By making the correspondence table with information, when the user scrolls the screen of the browser system faster, the summary of homepage information is read aloud, and when the user scrolls later, more detailed contents are read aloud. Information can be understood in a short time.

By the way, each of the above embodiments can be understood as an invention of a recording medium. That is, the above-described embodiment has a correspondence table creating procedure for creating a correspondence table in which the display speed at which predetermined multimedia information is displayed on the display and the information to be read at the display speed correspond to each other, and the correspondence table creating procedure. The computer executes a summary generation procedure for generating a summary of the multimedia information and a summary voice reproduction procedure for reproducing the generated summary by voice by extracting predetermined information from the correspondence table. It is an example of a computer-readable recording medium in which a program for causing the program is recorded.

Further, in the above embodiment, the correspondence table for creating the correspondence table in which the speed of turning the pages of the book of the book-type multimedia information displayed on the display and the information to be read at that speed are created Summary creation procedure for creating a summary of the book-type multimedia information by taking out predetermined information from the correspondence table among the creation procedure and the information corresponding to the speed of turning pages of the book displayed on the display 2 is an example of a computer-readable recording medium recording a program for causing a computer to execute a summary voice reproduction procedure for reproducing the summary by voice according to the speed of turning the page.

Further, in the above embodiment, the speed of scrolling the screen of the home page and the information to be read at that speed correspond to each other by referring to the heading tag or emphasis tag information included in the home page information of the Internet in advance. The correspondence table creation procedure for creating the correspondence table,
A procedure for creating a summary of the homepage information by extracting predetermined information from the correspondence table among the information corresponding to the scrolling speed of the homepage information displayed on the display, and scrolling the homepage information. It is an example of a computer-readable recording medium in which a program for causing a computer to execute a summary voice reproduction procedure of reproducing the above summary by voice according to the speed at which the recording medium is recorded.

The recording medium is FD or C.
D, DVD, HD, optical disc, magneto-optical disc, semiconductor memory, etc. are conceivable.

[0081]

According to the present invention, the reproduced voice information can be read in the same manner as the displayed information without the user being aware of the voice reproduction speed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a voice reading device 100 in a multimedia information browsing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of the voice reading device 100.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of main form information that can be used in the above embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a correspondence table of the degree of importance related to the main-form information shown in FIG. 3 in the above embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a correspondence table in which the speed of turning a book and the importance of information to be read at that time are associated with each other in the above-described embodiment.

6 is a diagram showing an example of the relationship between the speed of turning pages of a book and the contents of a summary to be read for the book-type information shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a voice reading device 200 in the multimedia information browsing system according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a flowchart showing an operation of the voice reading device 200. FIG.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of home page information.

10 is a diagram showing the home page information shown in FIG. 9 as an HTML document.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of correspondence between HTML tags and importance in the above embodiment.

12 is a flowchart of FIG. 10 based on the importance information shown in FIG.
It is a figure which shows an example of the correspondence table which shows the document information created from the HTML document shown in FIG.

13 is a diagram showing a scroll speed-importance degree correspondence table 31 in the voice reading device 200. FIG.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of the relationship between the scroll speed and the content of the summary to be read in the voice reading device 200.

[Explanation of symbols]

100, 200 ......... Voice reading device, 1, 24 ... Display, 2 ... Screen information control unit, 3, 26 ... Input section, 4 ... This type information storage database, 5, 28 ... Information summary processing unit, 6 ... This type information summary database, 7, 30 ... Information selection section, 8 ... Book turning speed-importance table 10, 33 ... Voice synthesizer. 25 ... WWW browser, 27 ... Internet, 29 ... Homepage information summary database, 31 ... Scroll speed-importance degree correspondence table.

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued Front Page (72) Hideaki Ozawa Inventor Hideaki Ozawa 3-19-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Nihon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (56) Reference JP-A-10-39846 (JP, A) Special Features Kaihei 7-85011 (JP, A) JP 5-232982 (JP, A) JP 63-231493 (JP, A) JP 9-325960 (JP, A) JP 10-254876 ( JP, A) JP 8-235219 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G06F 3/16

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A method for reading aloud in a system for browsing book-type multimedia information, wherein the book-type multimedia information includes text information and text information.
Correspondence table creation stage that creates a correspondence table corresponding to importance
Floor and; speed setting to set the page turning speed of the book by the user
Stage and; based on the position information corresponding to the current display page number,
Set the reading pointer Set the reading pointer
And; the importance according to the information indicated by the reading pointer above
The importance acquisition stage obtained from the correspondence table ; and the importance obtained from the correspondence table described above
If it is higher than the importance corresponding to the speed, the reading aloud
By synthesizing the information indicated by the interface with the voice,
And a voice reproducing step of reading voice in conjunction with each other; and a voice reading method in a multimedia information browsing system. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the audio reproduction step is displayed on the display.
By quickly flipping through the pages of a
Play the title of the book displayed in Ray to
However, the page of the book displayed on the above display may be delayed.
By turning over, you can see the details corresponding to the above headings.
It is characterized in that it is the stage of reproducing Yō sentence by voice
Read aloud in multimedia information browsing system
Method. 3. A system for browsing this type of multimedia information
Recording medium that records the voice reading program in the system
In the body, about the above-mentioned book type multimedia information, text information and
Create a correspondence table that corresponds to the degree of importance, and
Correspondence table creation procedure to store in ;; Speed setting to set the page turning speed of the book by the user
Procedure and; based on the location information corresponding to the current display page number,
Setting the reading pointer Reading pointer setting procedure
And; the importance according to the information indicated by the reading pointer above
The procedure to obtain the importance from the correspondence table ; and the importance obtained from the above correspondence table, turn to the above page
If it is higher than the importance corresponding to the speed, the reading aloud
By synthesizing the information indicated by the interface with the voice,
A voice recording procedure that causes the speaker to read the voice in conjunction with the computer ;
A computer-readable recording medium.