Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program, and storage medium

• US 20040199377A1
• Filed: 03/24/2004
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Aizawa, Michio
• Granted Patent: US 7,349,846 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/5
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/02 Methods for producing synthetic speech; Speech synthesisers

Abstract

This invention has as its object to provide an information processing apparatus that allows the user to efficiently and accurately input pronunciation symbols. To this end, an information processing apparatus for inputting a pronunciation symbol corresponding to an English notation, is comprising pronunciation symbol information holding means (105) for holding pronunciation symbol information indicating a relationship between a predetermined alphabet and a pronunciation symbol that starts from the predetermined alphabet, pronunciation symbol statistical information holding means (107) for holding statistical information associated with the probability of occurrence of each pronunciation symbol immediately after a predetermined pronunciation symbol, display means (107) for extracting pronunciation symbols corresponding to an input alphabet from the pronunciation symbol information, and displaying the extracted pronunciation symbols while sorting them on the basis of the statistical information, and determination means (114) for determining a pronunciation symbol corresponding to the English notation from the displayed pronunciation symbols.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus for inputting a pronunciation symbol corresponding to an English notation, comprising:

pronunciation symbol information holding means for holding pronunciation symbol information indicating a relationship between a predetermined alphabet and a pronunciation symbol that starts from the predetermined alphabet;

pronunciation symbol statistical information holding means for holding statistical information associated with a probability of occurrence of each pronunciation symbol immediately after a predetermined pronunciation symbol;

display means for extracting pronunciation symbols corresponding to an input alphabet from the pronunciation symbol information, and displaying the extracted pronunciation symbols while sorting them on the basis of the statistical information; and

determination means for determining a pronunciation symbol corresponding to the English notation from the displayed pronunciation symbols.

2. An information processing apparatus for inputting a pronunciation symbol corresponding to an English notation, comprising:

associative pronunciation symbol information holding means for holding associative pronunciation symbol information indicating a relationship between a predetermined alphabet and a pronunciation symbol when the predetermined alphabet forms a part of an arbitrary English notation;

pronunciation symbol statistical information holding means for holding statistical information associated with a probability of occurrence of each pronunciation symbol immediately after a predetermined pronunciation symbol;

display means for extracting pronunciation symbols corresponding to an input alphabet from the associative pronunciation symbol information, and displaying the extracted pronunciation symbols while sorting them on the basis of the statistical information; and

determination means for determining a pronunciation symbol corresponding to the English notation from the displayed pronunciation symbols.

3. An information processing method in an information processing apparatus for inputting a pronunciation symbol corresponding to an English notation, comprising:

a pronunciation symbol information holding step of holding pronunciation symbol information indicating a relationship between a predetermined alphabet and a pronunciation symbol that starts from the predetermined alphabet;

a pronunciation symbol statistical information holding step of holding statistical information associated with a probability of occurrence of each pronunciation symbol immediately after a predetermined pronunciation symbol;

a display step of extracting pronunciation symbols corresponding to an input alphabet from the pronunciation symbol information, and displaying the extracted pronunciation symbols while sorting them on the basis of the statistical information; and

a determination step of determining a pronunciation symbol corresponding to the English notation from the displayed pronunciation symbols.

5. A control program for making a computer implement an information processing method of claim 3.

7. A storage medium storing a control program for making a computer implement an information processing method of claim 3.

4. An information processing method in an information processing apparatus for inputting a pronunciation symbol corresponding to an English notation, comprising:

an associative pronunciation symbol information holding step of holding associative pronunciation symbol information indicating a relationship between a predetermined alphabet and a pronunciation symbol when the predetermined alphabet forms a part of an arbitrary English notation;

a pronunciation symbol statistical information holding step of holding statistical information associated with a probability of occurrence of each pronunciation symbol immediately after a predetermined pronunciation symbol;

a display step of extracting pronunciation symbols corresponding to an input alphabet from the associative pronunciation symbol information, and displaying the extracted pronunciation symbols while sorting them on the basis of the statistical information; and

a determination step of determining a pronunciation symbol corresponding to the English notation from the displayed pronunciation symbols.

6. A control program for making a computer implement an information processing method of claim 4.

8. A storage medium storing a control program for making a computer implement an information processing method of claim 4.