KR100745297B1 - Voice synthesis terminal for hearing the message - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a terminal device capable of listening to a voice message, and more particularly, to a voice synthesis terminal device capable of listening to a message having a built-in voice synthesis function so that data transmitted to the terminal device can be converted into voice and output. The present invention provides an apparatus for listening to an e-mail content by voice through a terminal device, comprising: a mail server for transmitting a request message as text information when a message listening request is received from a user, and text information received from the mail server; It is to provide a voice synthesis terminal device capable of listening to the e-mail message, characterized in that it comprises a terminal device for converting the voice to output.

Voice synthesis, email

Description

Voice synthesis terminal device capable of listening to messages and message listening control method {Voice synthesis terminal for hearing the message}

1 is a diagram of a conventional voice email listening system.

2 is a diagram of a voice email listening system of the present invention;

3 is a diagram of another embodiment of a voice email listening system.

The present invention relates to a terminal device capable of listening to a voice message, and more particularly, to a voice synthesis terminal device capable of listening to a message having a built-in voice synthesis function so that data transmitted to the terminal device can be converted into voice and output.

Recently, various services using a terminal have been provided. Among them, there is a service that can receive various voice information by using a terminal or check the e-mail contents delivered to the user by voice. Currently, the server converts text information such as e-mail into voice using a text-to-speech engine in the server, and then services the voice information to the user. Figure 1 shows a general device that can check the e-mail content by voice using this voice synthesis function. Terminal device 100 may be used both wired and wireless terminals (telephone and mobile phone), for example, look at the operation of a general device consisting of a communication network 200, such as a PSTN, a mail server 300 and a client PC (400) As follows.

First, an e-mail received from the client PC or the outside is stored in the memory 340 of the mail server. If the user wants to listen to the stored mail contents through the terminal, the control unit (control means) 330 converts the mail contents into a voice through the voice synthesis unit (text / voice conversion means) 320 and then communicates with the communication interface 310. ) To the user. In this way, the user can listen to the desired e-mail content by voice from outside.

       However, in such a general apparatus, since the voice information has much more information than the text information, the channel information is greatly increased when the text information is transmitted through the data service. This imposes a burden on the user on the telephone bill. In addition, the transmitted voice data can not be stored in the personal terminal because a large amount, therefore, if you want to listen again, the communication with the server must be made at all times, there is a problem that the telephone fee is added every time.

The present invention implements the voice synthesis function in the terminal, not the server to solve the conventional problems, the server can transmit only the necessary data such as text information to the terminal and can listen to the voice by the voice synthesis in the terminal, voice The purpose of the present invention is to provide a voice synthesis terminal device capable of listening to a message, which has a much smaller amount of call than information transmission, stores and manages the transmitted data in a personal terminal, and can listen to it for free.

       According to a feature of the present invention for achieving the above object, a speech synthesis (TTS) engine is mounted on a terminal to convert text information transmitted to the terminal into a voice signal and output it. According to another feature of the invention, the speech synthesis engine is composed of a module for extracting the parameters required for speech synthesis and a module for generating a speech signal.

According to another feature of the present invention, the voice parameter extraction module has a complicated algorithm, so that only a module for processing in the server and generating a voice signal is mounted on the terminal. In this case, the server transmits the voice parameter to the terminal instead of the text information, and the terminal synthesizes the voice using the terminal. The amount of voice parameter data is somewhat higher than the amount of text data, but much less than the amount of data in the voice waveform, so the amount of call is very small and can be stored and managed in the terminal.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 2 shows an apparatus having a text / voice conversion means 12 in a terminal apparatus 100. In an apparatus for listening to an e-mail content by voice through the terminal apparatus 100, a message listening request from a user is received. A mail server 300 for transmitting the request message as text information, and a terminal device 100 for converting and outputting the text information received from the mail server into voice. There is provided a voice synthesis terminal device.
When a user requests to listen to an e-mail message through the terminal device 100, the mail server 300 refers to the memory 304 under the control of the control means 303 and transmits text (text) information of the requested mail to a communication interface ( 301 is transmitted to the user through the communication network 200. The terminal device 100 converts the text information of the e-mail received through the terminal block 11 into voice through the text / voice conversion means 12 and then hears it to the user through the speaker 14. In addition, the received text information may be stored in the internal memory 13, and may later be heard by the user through the text / voice conversion means 12 if the user desires it.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating another embodiment of the present invention. In an apparatus for listening to an email content through a terminal device, a voice parameter for a request message is extracted and transmitted when a message listening request is received from a user. And a mail server 300 and a terminal device 100 for converting and outputting a voice using a voice parameter received from the mail server.
The terminal device 100 is provided with a TTS engine 15, the mail server 300 has a configuration that the voice parameter extraction means 305 is provided. In the second embodiment, when the user wants to listen to the e-mail, the mail server 300 extracts the voice parameter necessary for the voice synthesis from the e-mail information desired by the user through the voice parameter extracting means 305 and transmits it to the user. In the terminal device 100, the voice is synthesized from the TTS engine 15 by using the received voice parameter and is heard by the user. As in the first embodiment, the terminal 100 stores the voice parameter in the internal memory 13, and when the user desires, the voice parameter can be synthesized into a voice and can be heard by the user.

As described above, in the present invention, when the user wants to listen to the contents of the e-mail by voice, the user extracts the text information or the voice parameter from the e-mail server and transmits the voice information to the user. Compared to the direct transmission, only a small amount of data needs to be transmitted, so the call volume can be significantly reduced. If necessary, text information or voice parameters can be stored directly in the terminal, so that repeated listening can be performed at a desired time.

Claims (4)

In the method for listening to the text email content of the mail server through a terminal equipped with a speech synthesis function, by voice, Transmitting an e-mail message listening request from a terminal device to a mail server; Receiving voice parameter information of a corresponding message provided from a mail server in response to the transmitted message listening request; Synthesizing and outputting a voice corresponding to the corresponding message based on the received voice parameter information; E-mail voice listening control method of a terminal device comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein the received voice parameter information is stored, and the voice corresponding to the message is synthesized and output based on the stored voice parameter information. In the device for listening to the text email content of the mail server through a terminal equipped with a speech synthesis function, Means for receiving voice parameter information of the corresponding message provided from the mail server in response to the message listening request sent from the terminal apparatus to the mail server; And means for synthesizing the speech corresponding to the corresponding message based on the received speech parameter information. Terminal device comprising a. The terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a memory for storing the received voice parameter information and synthesizing and outputting a voice corresponding to the corresponding message based on the stored voice parameter information.

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