JPH09171392A - Pronunciation information creating method and device therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently correct pronunciation information when pronunciation information is created from a text. SOLUTION: A pronunciation information creating device is provided with a language processing part 5 which converts a text into pronunciation information by language processing, and a pronunciation information utterance part 7 which utters pronunciation information in synthetic voice, and a user interface part 1 which displays, corrects, etc., the text and pronunciation information. The device creates the pronunciation information interactively by means of an interaction between an automatic conversion by the language processing part 5 and a correction work by user.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a text-to-speech technique for converting text into speech. In particular, a voice synthesizer used for purposes such as preparing a phonetic symbol file in advance to make it utter many times, or outputting by a plurality of devices, for example, portable voice information for receiving and storing phonetic symbols from a telephone line or the like. Regarding terminals, etc.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a text-to-speech synthesizer performs linguistic processing such as morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, pronunciation unit division processing, and accent combination processing to automatically convert text into phonetic symbols, which is then subjected to regular speech synthesis. It was converted to voice by a container. However, it is almost impossible to obtain perfect readings, accents, intonations, etc. only by automatic conversion using the current language processing technology, and in order to realize this, very sophisticated analysis including semantic analysis is required. Not realistic. So, if you want a sound that doesn't have an error and you don't need to synthesize it in real time from text,
The phonetic symbols obtained by automatic conversion were corrected manually. Although various kinds of phonetic symbols are used, in Japanese, phonetics are expressed in katakana or romaji,
In many cases, a unique symbol string representing various prosodic information such as accent nucleus position and pose is used. Therefore, in order to correct phonetic symbols, it is necessary to understand the meaning of these symbols. In addition, since it is difficult to say that prosodic symbols are expressions that are intuitively associated with speech, it is difficult for even a skilled person to efficiently perform correction work.

As an invention for the purpose of facilitating this correction work, there is Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 4-166899 "text / speech converter". In addition, the software for the personal computer "Obeniya for Windows ver.1.0" released by Ricoh Co., Ltd. in 1994 has a function to support the correction work.

In Japanese Patent Application No. 07-273320, "pronunciation information creation method and apparatus", pronunciation information is provided by an accent nucleus or a pronunciation unit boundary which is different from a phonetic symbol and is iconified in a visually easy-to-understand manner. Is displayed.

[0005]

However, in the prior art disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-166899, the text and the phonetic symbols are displayed in parallel, and the phonetic symbols can be corrected by the ordinary text editor function. However, the present invention assumes a simple flow of listening to the voice from the beginning of the text, transitioning to the correction mode when a mistake is found, and starting to listen to the subsequent voice when the correction is completed, which lacks flexibility. In addition, since the target of the correction work is the phonetic symbol itself, it is difficult to intuitively connect to the voice, and it is difficult to predict the correspondence between the correction operation and the resultant voice, so that a lot of trial and error is required. Furthermore, the automatic conversion is used only at the beginning, and once the correction is started, the phonetic symbols are made by the user's key operation to correct all the corrections. This is at least the following 3
It causes two problems. -The result depends on the ability of the user, and there is an unavoidable risk of causing a fatal error due to an operation error.・ It is common to misparse the same expression in the text in the same way, but you have to correct all of this. -Even if the morpheme boundary is erroneously detected, even if only a part of the language processing can be easily corrected by automatic conversion, the final phonetic symbol can only be corrected.

Further, in the above-mentioned "orator", the cursor can be moved to an arbitrary portion in the text, so that the degree of freedom is greater than that of the above invention. However, the correction target is still a phonetic symbol, which is the same in terms of correction efficiency. Also, since it is possible to select from multiple candidates as a result of automatic conversion,
The automatic conversion by language processing can be partially used during the correction work. However, if the desired result is not included in the candidates, the phonetic symbols must be corrected by key operation.

Further, in Japanese Patent Application No. 07-273320, although the iconic pronunciation information display is used in an easy-to-understand manner, its movement is not particularly mentioned. It is useless to move the accent nucleus and the pronunciation unit boundary to a position that cannot or does not exist linguistically, as well as a position that does not exist, which reduces work efficiency.

In view of the above problems, the present invention has an object to provide a pronunciation information creating method and apparatus for efficiently modifying pronunciation information when creating pronunciation information from a text. (EN) A method and apparatus for supporting an efficient correction work of pronunciation information by automatically converting text into speech information and interactively modifying pronunciation information.

[0009]

In order to solve such a problem, the pronunciation information creating method of the invention of claim 1 verbally processes a text to convert it into pronunciation information, and interactively corrects the conversion result, It is characterized in that the correction result is uttered by a synthetic voice to generate pronunciation information. Claim 2
The pronunciation information creation apparatus of the invention of claim 1 performs a language processing unit that linguistically processes text to convert it into pronunciation information, a pronunciation information utterance unit that utters pronunciation information in synthetic speech, and displays and corrects text and pronunciation information. It is characterized in that it has a user interface section for performing the conversion, and interactively creates pronunciation information by the interaction of the automatic conversion by the language processing section and the correction work by the user. Further, the user interface section of the invention of claim 3 is characterized in that reading, accent, and pronunciation unit type are displayed in different areas as pronunciation information. Further, the user interface unit of the invention of claim 4 is characterized in that the text and pronunciation information are displayed at the beginning of each specific pronunciation unit such as a word, an accent phrase, and a breath paragraph. Further, in the user interface unit of the invention of claim 5, when the pronunciation unit boundary is moved, deleted, inserted or otherwise modified, only the two preceding and following pronunciation units adjacent to the boundary are reconverted by the language processing unit. However, the feature is that it is displayed again immediately. Further, in the pronunciation information creating apparatus according to the invention of claim 6, when an unregistered word is found while the text is converted into pronunciation information by the language processing unit, the unregistered word is changed to another by the user interface unit. It is characterized in that it is displayed separately from the part. or,
The user interface unit of the invention of claim 7 is
The feature is that the specified range of the displayed text is registered in the word dictionary so that it can be used for the language processing from the next time. Further, the pronunciation information voicing section of the invention of claim 8 is characterized in that a specific portion is automatically and repeatedly uttered. Further, the user interface unit of the invention of claim 9 corrects pronunciation information in parallel with utterance, reconverts the correction result in the language processing unit, and immediately outputs the conversion result by the pronunciation information utterance unit. The feature is that it is made to speak. Further, the user interface unit of the invention of claim 10 is characterized in that the accent nucleus symbol visually displayed is moved while being restricted by linguistic features. Also, claim 11
The limitation of the linguistic feature of the invention of 1 is characterized in that the accent kernel symbol is moved in mora units. Further, the limitation of the linguistic feature of the invention of claim 12 is characterized in that the movement of the accent nucleus symbol to the mora in which the accent nucleus is hard to exist is prohibited or suppressed. Further, the limitation of the linguistic feature of the invention of claim 13 is that the position of the accent nucleus of the foreign word is moved to each of the position corresponding to the accent of the original word and the position that is likely to appear when familiar with Japanese. And Further, the limitation of the linguistic feature of the invention of claim 14 is that the movement unit of the pronunciation unit boundary can be selected from a character, a word boundary, a character type boundary and the like.

[0010]

The pronunciation information generating apparatus of the present invention operates as follows. First, a text sentence to be uttered is input from the text input unit 2. The input text is converted into pronunciation information by the language processing unit 5, and the user interface unit 1
To display accents, readings, notations, pronunciation unit types, etc. on the display unit 7. The user moves, inserts, or deletes the boundary position of the accent phrase of the text while listening to the utterance of the pronunciation information being modified during the operation through the user interface unit 1, and the result of the change is processed by the language. The words to be re-converted in the section 5 and registered should be registered in the word dictionary, and "change the type of pronunciation unit" (put a pause /
(Take, put voice / take, etc.), "Move accent accent, change level", "Change reading", etc. while editing to the pronunciation information desired by the user. The result of editing by the user interface unit 1 is output as a phonetic symbol.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a pronunciation information generating apparatus according to the present invention. The user interface 1 controls a mutual interface between a user and a device such as text input, language processing, conversation operation with the user, and vocalization. The finally changed pronunciation information is output as a phonetic symbol. The text input unit 2 inputs a Japanese text to be uttered as a voice. The input of this text is input from a keyboard or an internal storage device such as an external storage device or a memory. The input unit 3 instructs the user interface unit 1 to perform an editing operation for changing the speech-processed voice information. For example, a touch panel, a joystick, a mouse, a keyboard, and the like are conceivable, but in this embodiment, a simple method of assigning each function to the numeric keypad of the personal computer was adopted (see FIG. 3). AP in FIG. 3 represents an accent phrase. The display unit 4 displays the editing operation status for changing the language-processed pronunciation information on the display device. The language processing unit 5 performs morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, pronunciation unit division processing, accent combination processing, and the like to convert into pronunciation information. The word dictionary 6 holds information about reading, notation, parts of speech, accents, etc. used in the language processing unit 5. The pronunciation information voicing unit 7 utters the pronunciation information that has been language-processed by the language processing unit 5 by voice synthesis.

The operation of the embodiments of claims 1 to 9 of the present invention will be described with reference to the flow chart of FIG. Step 10: Read a text containing Japanese kanji and kana as shown in FIG. 4A from the text input unit 2. Step 20: The input text is subjected to morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, pronunciation unit division processing, accent combination processing, etc. by the language processing unit 5, and is automatically converted into pronunciation information. Step 30: The user interface section 1 causes the display section 4 to display the automatically converted pronunciation information as shown in FIG. 4 (b). By displaying as follows, it becomes easy to operate each information intuitively.・ Display readings like ruby text above the notation (text).・ Display the accent nucleus position on the corresponding reading character. -This information is represented as a block with accent phrases as units so that reading and notation can be easily associated. The boundary information between accent phrases is represented by a rectangle when a pose is entered and a vertical line when a pose is not entered. Although not particularly shown in this example, other voice calls (rebuilding phrase components) and the like are also displayed as appropriate. Step 40: "Switch for making voice" is O
If it is N and is not currently speaking, step 50
What. Otherwise, go to step 60. Step 50: The pronunciation information converted by the pronunciation information utterance unit 7
The voice is synthesized by voice synthesis. Step 60: Depending on the type of input key from the input unit 3, the process proceeds to the next step. If the end key, go to step 70. If it is a vocal key, go to step 80. If it is a word registration key, go to step 90. If it is a boundary change key, go to step 100. Other keys, step 120
What. Step 70: Assuming that the correction of the pronunciation information is completed,
The result of the change is converted into a phonetic symbol and output, and this processing ends. Step 80: If it is the "speaking" key, if the current "switch for making a speech" is on, turn it off
To Otherwise turn it on. Then, the process returns to step 30. Step 90: If the key is a "word registration" key, the designated word is registered in the word dictionary 6, and the process proceeds to step 110. Step 100: A process for changing the boundary of the pronunciation information displayed on the display unit 4 is performed, and the process proceeds to step 110. Step 110: The language processing unit 5 reconverts the text into voice information based on the correction information. When the boundary of the pronunciation information is changed, only the accent phrase before and after the boundary is forcibly analyzed as a single accent phrase without performing accent phrase division processing. When a word is registered, the unit up to the punctuation mark containing the word is converted. Then, the process returns to step 30. Step 120: If none of the keys, "move cursor", "type change of pronunciation unit" (put / take pause, put / take voice, etc.), "move accent nucleus, change level", " Make corrections that do not involve language processing, such as "reading changes." Then, the process returns to step 30.

The operation of the present embodiment in the user interface section 1 will be described below by using the example sentence "located in Kamikichimura, Yamanashi Prefecture". The result converted first from the language processing unit 5 was divided into “Yamanashi prefecture” and “91 colors”. However, originally it had to be divided into "Yamanashi Prefecture" and "Kamikichiki." Therefore, the boundary is moved left by one character. For example, pressing the left / right key while holding down the control key moves the boundary (Fig. 3
reference). As a result, the language processing unit 5 automatically converts the character string “Yamanashi Prefecture” into pronunciation information. At this time, the processing of forcibly analyzing as one accent phrase is performed without performing the process of dividing into accent phrases. Next, the same processing is performed on the character string "upper color". FIG. 4C shows the result of changing the boundary in this way on the display unit 4.

[0014] Here, the "Kamikyu" is underlined, but because the place name "Kamikichiiro" in this part is not in the word dictionary 6, it becomes an unregistered word and the analysis failed. Shows. Therefore, in order to register the place name "Kamikichiki" in the word dictionary, enter the word registration mode (press the Enter key in the layout in Fig. 3), and use the left / right movement keys for "Notation" to enter the registration range. Select the start point and confirm with the Enter key. Similarly, select the end point and confirm.
A word registration window as shown in (d) appears. Here, the user inputs information about the registered word (see FIG. 4 (d)). Such an operation can be performed in the same manner as word registration in a normal word processor or the like. In this registration window, an item is selected by the up / down movement key, and the content is changed by the left / right movement key and the character input key. For example, a part of speech is prepared, and the part of speech in the part of speech is selected by the left and right movement keys, and the reading is input by a normal character input key. Also, the accent is designated by the left / right movement key as to where the reading is. After the word is registered, the user interface unit 1 again automatically converts the range up to the punctuation mark including the registered word into the language processing unit 5, and displays it on the display unit 4 as shown in FIG.

Since accurate phonetic information has been obtained, the user performs a key operation to obtain a phonetic symbol which is the final output, and obtains a symbol string as shown in FIG. 4 (f). This operation can be realized by, for example, opening the menu by pressing the function key to which the file menu is assigned and selecting the "phonetic symbol string output" menu by using the up and down movement keys.

Further, even in such a correction process,
The pronunciation information is repeatedly synthesized as a voice so as not to interfere with key operation. This uttered content is the pronunciation information at the time when one utterance that is repeatedly uttered is started, and the corrected content is uttered from the next repetition. Further, the repeating unit is not limited to the accent phrase, and the size can be selected by "arbitrary pronunciation unit" such as an exhalation paragraph or a sentence. In this way, when the pronunciation information changes due to the user's operation or automatic conversion, the content is immediately reflected in the voice, so mistakes can be easily found and the correspondence between the operation and the result can be intuitively improved to improve work efficiency. Can be done.

For such voice utterance, the voice output mode is switched on / off by pressing a voice ON / OFF key assigned to a tab key or the like. Audio output mode is O
In the case of N, as can be seen from FIG. 2, as soon as the voice output in the certain section is finished, the same section is output again, and as a result, the loop output in this section is continued. Such a thing can be easily realized by equipping the voice information voicing unit 7 as software of another process or external hardware.

Next, as an example of inserting and deleting a boundary, consider the compound word "Japanese form association". In this case, the accent phrase boundaries differ depending on whether it is a "Japanese doll association" or a "Japanese doll association." In the former case, it falls between "Japan" and "doll", but in the latter case, it does not fall within this compound word. Dividing a compound word in consideration of such meaning is a very difficult process. Therefore, if the accent phrase resulting from the automatic conversion does not have the desired division pattern, it must be corrected to the desired pattern by performing boundary insertion and deletion operations. This operation
The boundary is inserted or deleted by pressing the insert (0 key) and delete (period key) while pressing the control key (see FIG. 3). In the case of insertion, the boundary is further moved to the desired position by the above-mentioned moving operation.

FIG. 5 shows claims 10 to 14 of the present invention.
3 is an operation example of pronunciation information in the embodiment. or,
FIG. 5 shows an operation example corresponding to the movement of the accent nucleus in step 120 of FIG. The accent nucleus is iconized by ▼, and its position is displayed on the corresponding reading character. In the user interface unit 1, the input unit 3
By operating and moving ▼, the accent nucleus can be moved (the accent type can be changed), and the operation can be performed intuitively.

Here, an example sentence "Communication package will be sold only in Tokyo" will be described. First,
The pronunciation information obtained by the language processing unit 5 is displayed on the display unit 4 through the user interface unit 1. At this time, normal hiragana is used for reading characters, but this is the same as the form of ruby used in daily life, so it has the advantage that it is easy for the user to understand and is easy to understand. However, the user interface unit 1 displays x in addition to the first character when the one mora is composed of two or more characters so that one character is not necessarily one mora, and the x is displayed when the accent nucleus movement operation is performed. Control to skip locations automatically. By doing so, the accent nucleus can always be moved in units of one mora, so that the concept of the user's operation and the actual operation can be matched (see FIG. 5A).

However, it is known that accent nuclei do not exist equally in every mora, and that accent nuclei do not easily exist in mora such as long sound, consonant, and sound repellency. The user interface unit 1 displays x in the mora in which such an accent nucleus is unlikely to exist, and automatically skips the location of the x when the accent nucleus moving operation is performed (see FIG. 5B). ). By doing so, it is possible to reduce mistakes due to lack of knowledge and carelessness of the user and to improve efficiency by reducing the number of operations when moving the accent nucleus.

Foreign word accents are pronounced according to the original accent if they are unfamiliar as Japanese. If the original accent is unknown, or if familiar with Japanese, it is pronounced in a specific pattern. It is known that there are many cases. Here, the specific pattern is one in which the number obtained by subtracting 2 from the number of mora is used as the accent type. Further, it is known that the permeation of the terminology in industry is flattened. From these things, the user interface unit 1 displays the position where the accent nucleus is highly likely to exist by ◯ according to the above rule, using the Katakana word as a foreign word. That is, the user interface unit 1 displays a circle at the accent position of the original word of each word and the position of (number of mora) -2 (Fig. 5 (c)).
reference). Here, the combination of ▼ and ◯ in the display of FIG. 5C shows a ▼ icon indicating the position of the accent nucleus,
It is displayed by overlaying the ○ icon that is a candidate for the accent nucleus position. Further, by providing a moving means for moving to this position by one operation, it is possible to reduce mistakes due to lack of operator's knowledge and carelessness and to improve efficiency by reducing the number of operations when moving the accent nucleus. As this moving means, for example, “the accent key moving key while pressing the control key (7 and 9 in the ten-key assignment)
It can be realized by an operation such as “press”. (See Fig. 3)

The position of the accent nucleus is displayed by opening the setting menu assigned to the function key and selecting the "display accent candidate" menu, and by deselecting this menu, the position of the accent nucleus is hidden. It can also be displayed.

In addition, an error in the position of the pronunciation unit boundary, especially the accent phrase boundary position, is a major cause of unnatural pronunciation. A compound word is one of the main cases where the accent phrase boundary position is not correctly estimated. In such a case, the words can be cut out correctly, but the hidden case relation between the words cannot be correctly analyzed, and the accent phrase cannot be cut out well. Therefore, if the accent phrase boundary is moved for each word boundary, it is possible to quickly correct the accent phrase boundary (see FIG. 5D). In this example sentence, "Tokyo" and "limited"
The word boundary is between “release”.

In the case where a proper noun or a technical term fails to be divided into words, the accent phrase boundary is moved for each character. For example, "Car Navi Show" is "Car Navi"
In some cases, the word division fails and "car navigation show" becomes one word because it includes the new term. In such a case, "ka""-""na""bi""shi"
Allows accent phrase boundaries to be set from all character boundaries between "yo" and "-". Such an accent phrase boundary is set when the "move boundary" operation (control + 1 or control + 3 is pressed)
It is also possible to set the unit in which the vertical bar indicating the boundary is moved so that the character / word is toggled each time the control +8 is pressed, for example. (See Fig. 3)

As described above, the user can operate the accent phrase boundary efficiently by selectively operating the two.

Further, the setting menu is opened by the function key and the "move by character type boundary" menu is selected, or the toggle of the boundary movement unit is set to word / character / character type 3
By setting the toggle in stages, the phrase "car navigation system" can be used to set the accent phrase boundary using the character type boundaries "car navigation system" and "carrying system".

As described above, the pronunciation information creating method and apparatus according to the inventions of claims 1 and 2 provide the user with accurate pronunciation information that cannot be obtained only by automatic conversion of language processing. Can be obtained with a minimum. Further, it is possible to suppress variations due to user's ability and fatal mistakes. Further, according to the invention of claim 3, it is easy to intuitively correspond the pronunciation information and the voice, and the operation and the result, and the work efficiency is improved. Further, in the invention of claim 4, the correspondence between the text and the pronunciation information is easy to understand, and it is easy to find the error portion. In addition, since the mistake of the pronunciation unit delimitation greatly affects the subsequent processing, the reading, accent, etc. are usually not correct, and correcting the phonetic symbol of the final result requires a considerable amount of work. However, claim 5
In the invention of (1), by moving the pronunciation unit boundary and re-converting only the adjacent pronunciation units, it is possible to correct the mistake in the pronunciation unit division with a minimum burden of the user. Further, according to the invention of claim 6, the unregistered word which is the largest cause of the error by the language processing unit is displayed, so that the error in the pronunciation information can be found quickly. Further, according to the invention of claim 7, unregistered words can be registered in the word dictionary during the operation of correcting the phonetic symbols, so that an automatic conversion error due to the same word can be prevented thereafter. Further, according to the invention of claim 8, the pronunciation information is repeatedly output by voice, so that the pronunciation information and the voice are associated with each other, and an error can be easily found. Further, according to the invention of claim 9, since the result of the editing operation of the pronunciation information can be immediately confirmed by voice, the correspondence between the operation and the result can be intuitively understood and the working efficiency is improved. Further, the pronunciation information creating apparatus of the invention of claim 10 is
It is easy to intuitively respond to the operation of the accent nucleus and the result, and unnecessary work is reduced to improve work efficiency.
Further, in the pronunciation information creating apparatus according to the eleventh aspect of the present invention, the meaningless movement of the accent nucleus in the mora is eliminated, and the work efficiency is improved. Further, since the pronunciation information generating apparatus of the invention of claim 12 can avoid the position where the accent nucleus is hard to exist, unnecessary movement is reduced to improve work efficiency, and support to a user with insufficient knowledge and Careless mistakes can be reduced. Further, since the pronunciation information generating apparatus of the invention of claim 13 can select two high-frequency patterns of the accent of a foreign word, unnecessary movement is reduced, work efficiency is improved, and a user who has insufficient knowledge is required. Support and careless mistakes can be reduced. Further, the pronunciation information creating apparatus according to the invention of claim 14 sets the pronunciation unit boundary normally only in word units, and moves to character units only when it is difficult to detect word boundaries such as proper nouns,
Work efficiency is improved by reducing unnecessary movement.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a phonetic information creation device showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an example of assigning a function used for an operation of the present invention to a key.

FIG. 4 is a display example of execution of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a display example of an operation of moving an accent nucleus according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... User interface part, 2 ... Text input part, 3 ... Input part, 4 ... Display part, 5 ... Language processing part, 6 ... Word dictionary, 7 ... Pronunciation information voicing part.

Claims (14)

[Claims] 1. A pronunciation information creating method for creating pronunciation information for synthesizing a voice from a text, wherein a text is linguistically processed to be converted into pronunciation information, the conversion result is interactively modified, and the modification result is A method for creating phonetic information, characterized in that a synthetic voice is used. 2. A pronunciation information creating apparatus for creating speech information for synthesizing speech from text, and a linguistic processing section for linguistically processing text to convert it into pronunciation information, and pronunciation for uttering pronunciation information in synthesized speech. An information utterance section and a user interface section for displaying and correcting text and pronunciation information, and interactively creating pronunciation information by interaction between the automatic conversion by the language processing section and the correction operation by the user. A pronunciation information generating device characterized by. 3. The pronunciation information creating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the user interface unit displays pronunciation, accent, and pronunciation unit type in different areas as pronunciation information. 4. The pronunciation according to claim 2, wherein the user interface section displays the text and pronunciation information at the beginning of each specific pronunciation unit such as a word, an accent phrase, and a breath paragraph. Information creation device. 5. The user interface unit, when the pronunciation unit boundary is moved, deleted, inserted, or otherwise modified, only the two preceding and following pronunciation units adjacent to the boundary are reconverted by the language processing unit, and immediately. The pronunciation information generating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the pronunciation information is displayed again. 6. When an unregistered word is found while converting text into pronunciation information in the language processing unit, the unregistered word is displayed separately from other parts in the user interface unit. The phonetic information creation device according to claim 2, wherein 7. The pronunciation information according to claim 2, wherein the user interface unit registers a designated range of the displayed text in a word dictionary so that it can be used for language processing from the next time onward. Creation device. 8. The pronunciation information creating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the pronunciation information voicing section is configured to automatically and repeatedly utter a specific portion. 9. The user interface unit corrects pronunciation information in parallel with utterance, reconverts the correction result in the language processing unit, and causes the pronunciation information utterance unit to immediately utter the conversion result. 3. The pronunciation information creating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein 10. The user interface unit comprises:
3. The pronunciation information creating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the accented nuclear symbols displayed visually are moved while being restricted by linguistic features. 11. The pronunciation information creation device according to claim 10, wherein the restriction of the linguistic feature is to move the accent nucleus symbol in mora units. 12. The pronunciation information creating apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the restriction of the linguistic feature prohibits or suppresses the movement of the accent nucleus symbol to the mora in which the accent nucleus is unlikely to exist. 13. The limitation of the linguistic feature is that the accent nucleus position of a foreign word is a position corresponding to the accent of the original word,
11. The pronunciation information generating apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the pronunciation information creating apparatus moves to each of the positions that are likely to appear when familiar with Japanese. 14. The pronunciation information creating apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the linguistic feature restriction enables the movement unit of the pronunciation unit boundary to be selected from a character, a word boundary, a character type boundary, and the like. .