JPH01175625A - Terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain flexible voice output by voice-outputting only data of a designated quantity when a designated conditional expression is satisfied. CONSTITUTION:The conditional expression being a condition for beginning voice output, and the number of characters to be outputted subsequently are inputted from a keyboard 101, and a conditional buffer 105 holds a couple of inputted conditional expression and the number of output characters. A character string detection part 104 recognizes whether a character string which satisfies one of the conditional expressions in the conditional expression buffer 105 exists in a data stream inputted from a communication control part 106. When it does not exist, data stream is outputted only to a display 103. When the designated character string is detected, the characters with only the number of output characters accompanied by the character string are outputted to a voice synthesis part 102. Thus, only data which satifies one condition can selectively be outputted by voice.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a terminal device that transmits and receives data via a communication line.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, devices have been developed that connect between a terminal device and a communication line and output character data sent to the terminal as voice. For this conventional device, speech tics”
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[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In the conventional device, the user is given only two options: to output all of the character data sent from the communication line as voice, or to output no voice at all. However, users often do not need all of the information sent through the communication line, and it is often desirable to selectively receive and receive certain types of data using audio as a medium. If all received data is output as audio, this requirement will not be met, and the unneeded audio will become noise in the environment, and the disadvantage is that it will obscure the audio data that is really needed. there were.

An object of the present invention is to provide a terminal device that solves this problem and performs flexible audio output.

[Means for solving problems]

The terminal device of the present invention includes means for holding data representing conditions regarding character strings and accompanying section designation data, means for converting input strings of characters into speech, and means for storing data representing conditions related to character strings, means for converting input strings of characters into speech, and a means for storing data representing conditions related to character strings, and means for converting input character strings into speech. If there is a character string that satisfies any of the data representing the conditions held in the holding means, the number of characters specified by the interval specification data attached to that character string after that character string is and means for providing a sequence of . to the voice converting means.

[Operation] The relationship regarding character strings is defined as follows. Hereinafter, x and y are character strings, and n is an integer.

(1) Occur (x): Character string X appears.

(2) after (x, y, n): After the appearance of character string X, character string y appears within n characters.

(3) rel, &relz: relation rel.

holds true, and the relation re1g holds true.

The conditional expression is constructed by combining the above-mentioned relationships (1) to (3). For example, the character string "Voice J" appears, and within 10 characters after that, the character string "Synthesis" and "
The conditional expression that the character string ``regular'' appears is expressed as follows using the above relationship: after (r voice), ``synthesis, 10) & af
ter (r-voice), “Regular J, 10) User: 1
One or more conditional expressions c1. c2. ....

C7 and an integer associated with each of them, , L2 .・・・
・Ln are stored in the conditional expression buffer. Conditional expressions C,,C,, are present in the data stream input from the communication line.
..., C7, for example, if a character string satisfying cX is detected, the subsequent character strings are transferred not only to the display but also to the speech synthesis section,
Audio output is performed.

Otherwise, the data stream input from the communication line is output only to the display.

As a result, only the amount of data that satisfies the conditional expression specified by the user and is specified together with the conditional expression is output as audio.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of a terminal device according to the present invention.

The user inputs from the keyboard 101 a conditional expression that is a condition for starting audio output and the number of characters that he or she wishes to output thereafter. The conditional expression buffer 105 holds one or more pairs of a conditional expression input from the keyboard 101 and the number of output characters. The communication control unit 106 sends and receives data to and from the communication line 107. The character string detection unit 104 is the communication control unit 10
It is checked whether a character string that satisfies any of the conditional expressions in the conditional expression buffer 105 exists in the data stream input from 6, and if it does not exist, the display 1
The data stream is output only to 03. When a specified character string is detected in the conditional expression buffer 105, the same number of characters as the number of output characters accompanying that character string are output not only to the display 103 but also to the speech synthesis section 102. The speech synthesis unit 102 receives character data, synthesizes the corresponding speech, and outputs the synthesized speech. The display 103 is
Display the input character data.

Now, in the conditional expression buffer 105, a pair of conditional expression and number: (af
ter(r-voice), "synthesis J, 10), 50)
Consider the case where exists. If the character string “voice” appears in the data stream input from the communication control unit 106 to the character string detection unit 104, and then the character string “synthesis” appears within 10 characters, the subsequent 50 characters are The data is output to both the display 103 and the speech synthesis section 102, from which the user can listen to the data of 50 characters as speech.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, a user can selectively output only data that satisfies a certain condition as voice. This eliminates the hassle of waiting for the expected data to arrive in front of the terminal device.
It is possible to avoid the hassle of having all data output as audio.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of a terminal device according to the present invention. 101...Keyboard 102...Speech synthesis unit 103...Display 104...Character string detection unit 105...Conditional expression buffer 106...Communication control Department Agent Patent Attorney Yoshiyuki Iwasa

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) means for retaining data representing conditions regarding character strings and accompanying section designation data; means for converting input character strings into speech; and means for retaining data in a stream of data received from a communication line. If there is a character string that satisfies any of the data representing the conditions stored in 1. A terminal device comprising: means for providing a voice to a voice converting means.