JPH0319005Y2 - - Google Patents

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[Detailed explanation of the idea]

Purpose of the invention <Field of industrial application> The present invention relates to an electronic translator that displays phonetic symbols. <Prior art> So-called electronic translators, which display translated words on a display device using electronic circuit devices, have conventionally been used to simply check the spelling of the native language or the translated word translated from the native language. It was just displayed. There are also devices that display each word and also display the pronunciation of the word from a speaker, but there are no known devices that display the pronunciation symbols for each word. <Problems to be solved by the invention> The purpose of this invention is to provide a convenient electronic translator that can also display phonetic symbols. Structure of the invention An embodiment of this invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the external appearance of an electric translator according to an embodiment of this invention, in which the electric translator body A ₀ has a display device B ₀ ,
It is equipped with a keyboard C ₀ , a power switch D ₀ , and a speaker E ₀ for generating sound. Keyboard C ₀ has alphanumeric keys for character input, kana character keys,
It is equipped with a numeric keypad for entering numbers, as well as keys to indicate the direction of translation, such as Japanese to English (Japanese to English translation), English to Japanese (English to Japanese translation), and search keys. Equipped with various function keys similar to those of the electronic transducer, there is also a syllable key C that instructs whether to display the phonetic symbols as a series for one whole word or separately for each syllable.
1. It is also equipped with a voice key C2 for commanding vocalization. Figure 2 is a block circuit diagram of an embodiment of this invention, in which a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 1 contains a translation algorithm, word data of each language to be translated, and data of their phonetic symbols. A first ROM 2 containing a ROM 2 and a RAM (random access memory) 3 for temporary storage are connected, and a display unit 5 that drives a display device B ₀ and a keyboard C ₀ are connected via an interface 4. There is. Based on the command received from the CPU 1, the display unit 5
Characters input from the keyboard _C0 or their translated words and their pronunciation symbols are displayed, for example, as a set of dot matrices, as shown in FIG. The character display method is the same as that of a known electronic translator of this type, and the detailed structure and operation thereof will be omitted. Furthermore, a voice synthesis unit 6 is connected to the CPU 1, and the voice synthesis unit 6 operates a second ROM 7 containing voice data based on instructions received from the CPU 1.
The necessary data _is read out from
Generates the sound of a word or sentence from. In addition to the usual translation algorithm, the first ROM 2 stores a program shown in the flowchart in Figure 4 for displaying and uttering phonetic symbols, and also stores word data and phonetic symbol data in Figure 5. It is stored in the formats shown in A, B, and Tables 1 and 2. Furthermore, the speech synthesis data is stored in the format shown in Table 3. The phonetic symbol data is stored in an area having a code that is the word data code plus "1000". This number "1000" is
It is determined by the number of words stored in ROM2. That is, for example, the word "beautiful" is in the first ROM.
2, the phonetic symbol data “bju:t〓f〓l” will have the code “1015”, which is the code “15” plus “1000”. is stored in the area where it was created. Further, along with each word data, the number of syllables of the word is stored as shown by X in FIG. 5A.

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[Table] As shown above, in the electronic translation machine, the current pronunciation is assumed to display all syllables (in this case, do not press the syllable key C1), for example, the word "beautiful".
is input using the alphanumeric key on the keyboard _C0 , CPU1
1Search the area with the code "15" in ROM2, and "beautiful" will be displayed on the display device _B0 . First, when you turn on the voice key C2, in step A1, "1000" is added to the area code "15" in which the word currently displayed on the display is stored, and the added code "1015" is
It is stored in area A of RAM3. Then, in step J1, it is determined whether the syllables are continuous or separated, and in this case, the syllable key C1 was not turned on, so
It is determined that it is continuous, and the process proceeds to step A2. Then, the code "1015" stored in area A of RAM3 specifies the code "1015" in the first ROM2, and the phonetic symbol "bju:t〓f〓 l”
The data is read out and displayed on the display device _B0 via the display section 5 as shown in FIG. On the other hand, the code "1015" of the second ROM 7 is specified, and the audio data of "beautiful" stored in the area of this code "1015" is sent to the speech synthesis unit 6.
An audio signal is synthesized based on the audio data, this audio signal is amplified by the amplifier 8, and "bju:t〓f〓l" is uttered from the speaker _E0 . On the other hand, if it is desired to display phonetic symbols separately for each syllable, turn on the syllable key C1. Note that the words to be displayed are the same as in the above case. At this time, the ON signal of key C1 causes the CPU to
1, it is determined that separation is required at step J1, and the process proceeds to step A4. Then, in step A4, the number of syllables stored in area X of the code "15" of the first ROM2 is "3".
is read out, the number of syllables "3" is written in area B of code 1015 of RAM3, and step A
Proceed to step 5. Note that in each ROM 2 and 7, the phonetic symbol data and speech synthesis data are numbered 1, 2, 3, etc. in order before the last syllable, as shown in Tables 2 and 3. . Therefore, in step A5, among the phonetic symbol data corresponding to the code "1015" stored in A of RAM3, only the syllable "bju:" of number "3" stored in area B is read out from the second ROM3. is applied to the display section 5, and the word "beautiful" and the phonetic symbol "bju:" are displayed on the display device _B0 . Next, in step A6, the audio data corresponding to the phonetic symbol data "bju:" is read from the second ROM 7, and the pronunciation "bju:" is output from the speaker _E0.
utter. Next, proceeding to step A7, "1" is subtracted in the CPU 1 from the data "3" stored in the area B of the RAM 3, and the difference "2" is stored in the area B. Then, in step J2, it is determined whether B=0 or not, and the process returns to A5, and according to the numerical value "2" which is the memory content of area B, the sound data "t〓" of the area "2" of code 1015 is stored. is read from the first ROM 2 and the phonetic symbols are displayed on the display device _B0 in the same manner as described above. Then, proceed to step A6, and proceed to step A6.
〓'' is pronounced from speaker E ₀ . Thereafter, in the same manner as above, proceed to steps A7 and J2, and repeat the operations from A5 to J2 until the memory content of area B becomes 0, and display and pronounce the phonetic symbol of "bju:t〓f〓l". . Similar operations are performed for other words. In the above-described embodiment, all audio data is stored in each ROM with a code prefixed to the data. With this method, the number of bits occupied by each storage area is determined depending on the length of the audio data of each word. So for each word, e.g.
Compared to dividing addresses into 16-byte units and storing data in units of 16 bytes, it is possible to eliminate wasted storage capacity. In this embodiment, it is necessary to search the codes sequentially, but for this purpose, for example, as shown in Table 4 for every 50th code, the address is memorized and the necessary pronunciation is searched from the word data code. When extracting symbolic data or audio data, you can determine where to start searching by looking at the numerical range of the code. In addition, to make the code number clear, a system may be used to detect a numerical value after the CR code, as shown in Figure 5, in the form of code: data CR (carriage return) next code. Furthermore, each syllable of the phonetic symbol data is separated by ;. Effects of the invention As detailed above, according to this invention, the electronic translator not only displays the spelling but also the phonetic symbols, making it easier to learn pronunciation and improve language learning. For beginners, it is also useful for learning phonetic symbols. Furthermore, as shown in the embodiment, by dividing each syllable into pronunciations, the correspondence between phonetic symbols and actual pronunciation can be made clearer, and the understanding of pronunciation can be easily deepened. Note that although the above-mentioned embodiment has been explained with respect to English pronunciation, this invention can also be applied to the pronunciation of other Japanese languages.

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Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of the external appearance of the electric translator of this invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the electric translator of this invention, and Fig. 3 is a plan view showing an example of the display. Figure 4 is a flowchart showing the main parts of the program used in the embodiment of Figure 2, and Figure 5 is
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the storage format of data stored in the ROM, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the storage format of the data stored in the RAM. A ₀ ... Translator body, B ₀ ... Display device, C ₀ ...
Keyboard, E ₀ ... Speaker, 1 ... CPU, 2
... 1st ROM, 3 ... RAM, 5 ... Display section, 6
...Speech synthesis unit, 7...Second ROM.

Claims (1)

[Claim for Utility Model Registration] A phonetic symbol data memory in which phonetic symbol data is stored in advance by dividing it into syllables, and whether to display the phonetic symbols in series for one word as a whole or separately for each syllable. a syllable key for instructing, and a central processing unit CPU that selectively reads and controls predetermined phonetic symbol data from the phonetic symbol data memory, either continuously or syllable by syllable, in accordance with the operation of the syllable key.
, a display means for displaying the read phonetic symbol data in a series or divided into syllables, and a voice for emitting the sound corresponding to the read phonetic symbol data either continuously or in syllables. An electronic translator comprising: a voice means;