Electronic musical instrument and control method for electronic musical instrument

A method of controlling an electronic musical instrument performed by one or more processors included in the electronic musical instrument, the electronic musical instrument being configured to output synthesized lyrics of a song based on lyric data in accordance with operations by a user, and including an operating unit that receives an operation by the user to specify a pitch in addition to the one or more processors, the method comprising, via the one or more processors:

• generating voice synthesis data for a lyric of the song based on the lyric data for the song at a timing at which said lyric is supposed to be outputted regardless of whether or not a user operation of the operating unit is detected at said timing;
• when the user operation of the operating unit is detected at said timing, causing voice sound synthesized based on the generated voice synthesis data to be outputted;
• and
• when the user operation of the operating unit is not detected at said timing, causing the voice sound synthesized based on the generated voice synthesis data not to be outputted.

An electronic musical instrument that can output synthesized lyrics of a song based on lyric data in accordance with operations by a user, comprising:

• an operating unit that receives an operation by the user to specify a pitch;
• and
• one or more processors electrically connected to the operating unit,
• wherein the lyric data includes first character data corresponding to a first timing, second character data corresponding to a second timing after the first timing, and third character data corresponding to a third timing after the second timing,
• wherein the one or more processors perform the following:
• when the user operation is detected at the first timing, causing synthesized voice sound corresponding to the first character data to be outputted;
• and
• when the user operation is not detected at the second timing and the user operation is detected at the third timing, generating voice synthesis data for the second character data at the second timing, causing synthesized voice sound synthesized based on the generated voice synthesis data corresponding to the second character data not to be outputted at the second timing, and causing synthesized voice sound corresponding to the third character data to be outputted.

A method of controlling an electronic musical instrument performed by one or more processors included in the electronic musical instrument, the electronic musical instrument being configured to output synthesized lyrics of a song based on lyric data in accordance with operations by a user, and including an operating unit that receives an operation by the user to specify a pitch in addition to the one or more processors,

• wherein the lyric data includes first character data corresponding to a first timing, second character data corresponding to a second timing after the first timing, and third character data corresponding to a third timing after the second timing, and
• wherein the method comprises, via the one or more processors:
• when the user operation is detected at the first timing, causing synthesized voice sound corresponding to the first character data to be outputted;
• and
• when the user operation is not detected at the second timing and the user operation is detected at the third timing, generating voice synthesis data for the second character data at the second timing, causing synthesized voice sound synthesized based on the generated voice synthesis data corresponding to the second character data not to be outputted at the second timing, and causing synthesized voice sound corresponding to the third character data to be outputted.