Audio font output device, font database, and language input front end processor
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorAtsushi Koinuma
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Abstract
An audio font output device is disclosed that is able to effectively convert characters or text into an audio signal recognizable by the acoustic sense of human beings. The audio font output device includes a font data base that stores a character corresponding to a symbol code or picture data of a symbol, first audio data corresponding to the symbol code, a symbol display unit that displays the character corresponding to the symbol code or the symbol based on the picture data, and an audio output unit that outputs an audio signal based on the first audio data corresponding to the symbol code.
Claims17
An audio font output device, comprising:
- a font data base that stores a character corresponding to a symbol code or a picture data of a symbol, and a first audio data corresponding to the symbol code;
- a symbol display unit that displays the character corresponding to the symbol code or the symbol based on the picture data;
- and
- an audio output unit that outputs an audio signal based on the first audio data corresponding to the symbol code.
An audio font output device, comprising:
- a font data base that stores a character corresponding to a symbol code or a picture data of a symbol, and a second audio data corresponding to a code of a word, said word being formed from a plurality of the characters and the symbol codes;
- a display unit that displays the character corresponding to the symbol code or the symbol based on the picture data;
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- an audio output unit that outputs an audio signal based on the second audio data corresponding to the word code.
A mail server that sends an electronic mail received from a signal transmission terminal through a network to a signal reception terminal through the network, said mail server comprising:
- a data base that stores an audio data corresponding to a code of a word, said word being formed from a plurality of characters and symbol codes;
- an audio data attaching unit that generates a sound source data based on the audio data or extracts the sound source data corresponding to the word, and attaches the sound source data to the electronic mail;
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- a transmission unit that transmits the electronic mail with the attached sound source data to the signal reception terminal.
A font data base, comprising:
- a character corresponding to a symbol code or a picture data of a symbol;
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- a first audio data corresponding to the symbol code.
A language input front end processor,
- wherein
- the language input front end processor transforms a series of input symbol codes into a sentence including characters by using a dictionary;
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- the dictionary includes an audio data corresponding to a code of a word, said word being formed from a plurality of the characters and the symbol codes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.