Storage medium storing information processing program, information processing device, information processing method, and information processing system

An information processing method, implemented at least in part by a computer processor coupled to a touch screen including a display panel and a touch sensor and a sound input device configured to capture sound, the method comprising:

• displaying, on the display panel, a sentence including a target word that is displayed with a display mode different from a display mode of other words in the sentence;
• receiving sound data corresponding to a sound captured by the sound input device while the sentence is displayed;
• and
• processing the received sound data to determine a silent time in which sound in the received sound data is absent or below a sound threshold and a sound input time in which sound is present in the received sound data;
• determining whether or not the sentence is read aloud based on the sound input time and the silent time, wherein the sentence is determined to be read aloud when a continued amount of the silent time reaches a silent threshold value after an accumulated amount of the sound input time separated by one or more silent times reaches read-aloud completion time determined based on the number of words in the displayed sentence;
• upon determining that the sentence is read aloud, controlling the display panel to stop displaying the sentence and display an answer input screen requesting a user to manually input the target word;
• receiving, from the touch sensor, touch input data corresponding to input made to the answer input screen;
• performing character recognition processing to determine whether the received touch input data represents characters corresponding to characters in the target word;
• and
• upon determining that the received touch input data represents characters corresponding to characters in the target word, controlling the display panel to display another sentence including another target word.

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a touch screen including a display panel and a touch sensor;
• a sound input device configured to capture sound;
• and
• a processing system, comprising a processor and memory, the processing system configured to:
• control the display panel to display a sentence including a target word that is displayed with a display mode different from a display mode of other words in the sentence;
• receive sound data corresponding to sound captured by the sound input device while the sentence is displayed;
• process the received sound data to determine a silent time in which sound in the received sound data is absent or below a sound threshold and a sound input time in which sound is present in the received sound data;
• determine whether or not the sentence is read aloud based on the sound input time and the silent time, wherein the sentence is determined to be read aloud when a continued amount of the silent time reaches a silent threshold value after an accumulated amount of the sound input time separated by one or more silent times reaches read-aloud completion time determined based on the number of words in the displayed sentence;
• upon determining that the sentence is read aloud, control the display panel to stop displaying the sentence and display an answer input screen requesting a user to manually input the target word;
• receive, from the touch sensor, touch input data corresponding to input made to the answer input screen;
• perform character recognition processing to determine whether the received touch input data represents characters corresponding to characters in the target word;
• and
• upon determining that the received touch input data represents characters corresponding to characters in the target word, control the display panel to display another sentence including another target word.