Apparatus and method for providing information by speech

An apparatus for providing information by speech, comprising:

• analyzing means of extracting all or some of words from an input sentence based on a predetermined criterion, and selecting a standard sentence pattern most relevant to the input sentence from among a plurality of prepared standard sentence patterns by use of the extracted words;
• and
• speech synthesizing means of performing speech synthesis of the selected standard sentence pattern by use of prosody information previously assigned to at least the selected standard sentence pattern,
• wherein said predetermined criterion is selection of a word coinciding with any of words registered in the prepared standard sentence patterns.

An apparatus for providing information by speech, comprising:

• analyzing means of extracting all or some of words of a first language from an input sentence of the first language based on a predetermined criterion, replacing the extracted words of the first language with standard words of a second language by use of predetermined relation information, selecting a standard sentence pattern of the second language most relevant to the input sentence from among a plurality of prepared standard sentence patterns of the second language by use of the standard words of the second language, and replacing all or some of the standard words of the second language of the selected standard sentence pattern of the second language with words of the second language corresponding to words of the first language corresponding to the standard words of the second language;
• and
• speech synthesizing means of performing speech synthesis of the sentence on which the word replacement has been performed, by use of prosody information previously assigned to at least the selected standard sentence pattern of the second language,
• wherein said relation information is such that to the predetermined standard words of the second language, words of the first language relevant to the standard words of the second language are related.

An apparatus for providing information by speech, comprising:

• analyzing means of extracting all or some of words of a first language from an input sentence of the first language based on a predetermined criterion, replacing the extracted words of the first language with standard words of the first language by use of predetermined relation information, selecting a standard sentence pattern of the first language most relevant to the input sentence from among a plurality of prepared standard sentence patterns of the first language by use of the standard words of the first language, identifying a predetermined standard sentence pattern of a second language associated with the selected standard sentence pattern of the first language, and replacing all or some of standard words of the second language of the identified standard sentence pattern of the second language with words of the second language equivalent to the input words of the first language corresponding to the standard words of the first language corresponding to the standard words of the second language;
• and
• speech synthesizing means of performing speech synthesis of the sentence on which the word replacement has been performed, by use of prosody information previously assigned to at least the selected standard sentence pattern of the second language,
• wherein said relation information is such that to the predetermined standard words of the first language, words of the first language relevant to the standard words of the first language are related.

An apparatus for providing information by speech, comprising:

• analyzing means of extracting all or some of words of a first language from an input sentence of the first language based on a predetermined criterion, and selecting a standard sentence of a second language most relevant to the input sentence from among a plurality of prepared standard sentence patterns of the second language by use of words of the second language corresponding to the extracted words of the first language;
• and
• speech synthesizing means of performing speech synthesis of the selected standard sentence pattern of the second language by use of prosody information previously assigned to at least the selected standard sentence pattern of the second language,
• wherein said predetermined criterion is selection of a word of the first language corresponding to a word of the second language registered in the prepared standard sentence patterns of the second language.

An apparatus for providing information by speech, comprising:

• analyzing means of extracting all or some of words of a first language from an input sentence of the first language based on a predetermined criterion, selecting a standard sentence pattern of the first language most relevant to the input sentence of the first language from among a plurality of prepared standard sentence patterns of the first language by use of the extracted words of the first language, and identifying a predetermined standard sentence pattern of a second language corresponding to the selected standard sentence pattern of the first language;
• and
• speech synthesizing means of performing speech synthesis of the identified standard sentence pattern of the second language by use of prosody information previously assigned to at least the identified standard sentence pattern of the second language,
• wherein said predetermined criterion is selection of a word of the first language coinciding with any of words of the first language registered in the prepared standard sentence patterns of the first language.

An apparatus for providing information by speech, comprising:

• analyzing means of extracting all or some of words from an input sentence based on a predetermined criterion, replacing the extracted words with standard words by use of predetermined relation information, selecting a standard sentence pattern most relevant to the input sentence from among a plurality of prepared standard sentence patterns by use of the standard words, identifying a predetermined response standard sentence pattern corresponding to the selected standard sentence pattern, and replacing all or some of the standard words of the identified response standard sentence pattern with the corresponding words;
• and
• speech synthesizing means of performing speech synthesis of the sentence on which the word replacement has been performed, by use of prosody information previously assigned to at least the identified response standard sentence pattern,
• wherein said relation information is such that to the predetermined standard words, words relevant to the standard words are related.

An apparatus for providing information by speech, comprising:

• analyzing means of extracting all or some of words from an input sentence based on a predetermined criterion, selecting a standard sentence pattern most relevant to the input sentence from among a plurality of prepared standard sentence patterns by use of the extracted words, and identifying a predetermined response standard sentence pattern corresponding to the selected standard sentence pattern;
• and
• speech synthesizing means of performing speech synthesis of the identified response standard sentence pattern by use of prosody information previously assigned to at least the identified response standard sentence pattern,
• wherein said predetermined criterion is selection of a word the same as a word registered in the prepared standard sentence patterns.

A method for providing information by speech, comprising the steps of:

• extracting all or some of words from an input sentence based on a predetermined criterion, and replacing the extracted words with standard words by use of predetermined relation information;
• selecting a standard sentence pattern most relevant to the input sentence from among a plurality of prepared standard sentence patterns by use of the standard words;
• replacing all or some of the standard words of the selected standard sentence pattern with the corresponding words;
• and
• performing speech synthesis of the sentence on which the word replacement has been performed, by use of prosody information previously assigned to at least the selected standard sentence pattern,
• wherein said relation information is such that to the predetermined standard words, words relevant to the standard words are related.

A method for providing information by speech, comprising the steps of:

• extracting all or some of words from an input sentence based on a predetermined criterion, and selecting a standard sentence pattern most relevant to the input sentence from among a plurality of prepared standard sentence patterns by use of the extracted words;
• and
• performing speech synthesis of the selected standard sentence pattern by use of prosody information previously assigned to at least the selected standard sentence pattern,
• wherein said predetermined criterion is selection of a word coinciding with any of words registered in the prepared standard sentence patterns.