Text information display apparatus equipped with speech synthesis function, speech synthesis method of same, and speech synthesis program

Abstract

A text information display apparatus equipped with a speech synthesis function able to clearly display a linked portion by speech and enabling easy recognition of a change from a link, provided with a controller for referring to the display rules of text to be converted to speech when converting text included in text information being displayed on a display unit to speech, controlling a speech synthesizing processing unit so as to convert the text to speech with a first voice in a case of predetermined display rules (presence of link destination, cursor position display, etc.) and convert the text to speech with a second voice having a speech quality different from that of the first voice in the case of not the predetermined display rules, and controlling the speech synthesizing processing unit so as to convert the text included in a display object to speech with a third voice when the display object linked with the link destination is selected or determined by a key operation unit.

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