Information presentation system, information presentation apparatus, control method thereof and computer readable memory
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazue Kaneko, Hideo Kuboyama, Shinji Hisamoto
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Abstract
An information presentation computer receiving news articles distributed from an information distribution computer performs voice synthesis based on text information included in received send data, outputs obtained synthetic voice, and displays an animation image imitating a speaker of synthetic voice. In addition, a text to be spoken by synthetic voice is displayed in a letter color corresponding to each animation image.
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An information presentation apparatus, comprising:
- voice outputting means for carrying out voice synthesis based on text information included in send data received from a sending apparatus for sending send data including text information and a need for hiding of the text information, and outputting obtained synthetic voice;
- and
- displaying means for displaying speaker images imitating speakers of said synthetic voice and a text string to be spoken by said synthetic voice in a different text display form, which enables to distinguish each of said speaker images, corresponding to each of said speaker images,
- wherein said displaying means, if there is the need for hiding of the text string, displays the speaker image by placing it over the text string to hide the text string from user's view.
An information presentation method, comprising:
- a voice outputting step of carrying out voice synthesis based on text information included in send data received from a sending method for sending send data including text information and a need for hiding of the text information, and outputting obtained synthetic voice;
- and
- a displaying step of displaying speaker images imitating speakers of said synthetic voice and a text string to be spoken by said synthetic voice in a different text display form, which enables to distinguish each of said speaker images, corresponding to each of said speaker images,
- wherein said displaying step, if there is the need for hiding of the text string, displays the speaker image by placing it over the text string to hide the text string from user's view.
A computer readable medium having encoded thereon a program for controlling an information presentation apparatus, comprising:
- a program code of a voice outputting step of carrying out voice synthesis based on text information included in send data received from a sending method for sending send data including text information and a need for hiding of the text information, and outputting obtained synthetic voice;
- and
- a program code of a displaying step of displaying speaker images imitating speakers of said synthetic voice and a text string to be spoken by said synthetic voice in a different text display form, which enables to distinguish each of said speaker images, corresponding to each of said speaker images,
- wherein said displaying step, if there is the need for hiding of the text string, displays the speaker image by placing it over the text string to hide the text string from user's view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.