Electronic document processing apparatus
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1. An electronic document processing apparatus for processing an electronic document, comprising:
- document inputting means fed with an electronic document;
wherein tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements is added to said electronic document;
speech read-out data generating means for generating speech read-out data for reading out by a speech synthesizer based on said electronic document;
wherein said speech read-out data generating means adds to said electronic document, attribute information specifying beginning positions of paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up the electronic document and associated pause periods to generate said speech read-out data;
summary text forming means for processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and
selection means for selecting whether the speech synthesizer is to read out the summary text of the electronic document.
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Abstract
On receipt of a tagged file, as a tagged document, at step S1, a document processing apparatus at step S2 derives the attribute information for read-out from tags of the tagged file and embeds the attribute information to generate a speech read-out file. Then, at step S3, the document processing apparatus performs processing suited for a speech synthesis engine, using the generated speech read-out file. At step S4, the document processing apparatus performs processing depending on the operation by the user through a user interface.
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1. An electronic document processing apparatus for processing an electronic document, comprising:
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document inputting means fed with an electronic document;
wherein tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements is added to said electronic document;speech read-out data generating means for generating speech read-out data for reading out by a speech synthesizer based on said electronic document; wherein said speech read-out data generating means adds to said electronic document, attribute information specifying beginning positions of paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up the electronic document and associated pause periods to generate said speech read-out data; summary text forming means for processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and selection means for selecting whether the speech synthesizer is to read out the summary text of the electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An electronic document processing method for processing an electronic document, comprising:
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a document inputting step fed with an electronic document;
wherein tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements is added to said electronic document;a speech read-out data generating step of generating speech read-out data for reading out by a speech synthesizer based on said electronic document;
said speech read-out data generating step adds to said electronic document attribute information specifying beginning positions of paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up the electronic document and associated pause periods to generate said speech read-out data;a summary text forming step of processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and a selecting step of selecting whether the speech synthesizer is to read out the summary text of the electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A recording medium having recorded thereon a computer-controllable electronic document processing program for processing an electronic document, said program comprising:
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a document inputting step of being fed with an electronic document; wherein tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements is added to said electronic document; a speech read-out data generating step of generating speech read-out data for reading out by a speech synthesizer based on said electronic document;
said speech read-out data generating step adds to said electronic document attribute information specifying beginning positions of paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up the electronic document and associated pause periods to generate said speech read-out data;a summary text forming step of processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and a selecting step of selecting whether the speech synthesizer is to read out the summary text of the electronic document.
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32. An electronic document processing apparatus for processing an electronic document, comprising:
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document inputting means for being fed with said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements and to which is added tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document; document read-out means for speech-synthesizing and reading out said electronic document based on said tag information;
wherein said document read-out means locates paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up said electronic document, based on attribute information specifying beginning positions of the paragraphs, sentences and phrases and associated pause periods;summary text forming means for processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and selection means for selecting whether the document read-out means is to read out the summary text of the electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. An electronic document processing method for processing an electronic document, comprising:
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a document inputting step of being fed with said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements and to which is added tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document; a document read-out step of speech-synthesizing and reading out said electronic document based on said tag information;
wherein said document read-out step locates paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up said electronic document, based on attribute information specifying beginning positions of the paragraphs, sentences and phrases and associated pause periods;a summary text forming step of processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and a selecting step of selecting whether the summary text of the electronic document is to be read out during the document read-out step. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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46. A recording medium having recorded thereon a computer-controllable electronic document processing program for processing an electronic document, said program comprising:
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a document inputting step of being fed with said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements and having added thereto tag information indicating its inner structure; a document read-out step of speech-synthesizing and reading out said electronic document based on said tag information;
wherein said document read-out step locates paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up said electronic document, based on attribute information specifying beginning positions of the paragraphs, sentences and phrases and associated pause periods;a summary text forming step of processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and a selecting step of selecting whether the summary text of the electronic document is to be read out during the document read-out step.
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47. An electronic document processing apparatus for processing an electronic document comprising:
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detection means for detecting beginning positions of at least two of paragraphs, sentences and phrases from among plural elements making up said electronic document;
wherein tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements is added to said electronic document;speech read-out data generating means for reading said electronic document out by a speech synthesizer by adding to said electronic document, speech read-out data providing respective different pause periods at beginning positions of the a least two of paragraphs, sentences and phrases based on detected results obtained by said detection means;
wherein said speech read-out data generating means adds to said electronic document, attribute information specifying beginning positions of paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up the electronic document and associated pause periods to generate said speech read-out data;summary text forming means for processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and selection means for selecting whether the speech read-out data generating means is to read out the summary text of the electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63)
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64. An electronic document processing method for processing an electronic document comprising:
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a detection step of detecting beginning positions of at least two of paragraphs, sentences and phrases from among plural elements making up said electronic document;
wherein tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements is added to said electronic document;a speech read-out data generating step of reading said electronic document out by a speech synthesizer by adding to said electronic document, speech read-out data providing respective different pause periods at beginning positions of the at least two of paragraphs, sentences and phrases based on detected results obtained by said detection means;
wherein said speech read-out data generating step adds to said electronic document, attribute information specifying beginning positions of paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up the electronic document and associated pause periods to generate said speech read-out data;a summary text forming step of processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and a selecting step of selecting whether the summary text of the electronic document is to be read out by the speech synthesizer. - View Dependent Claims (65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80)
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81. A recording medium having recorded thereon a computer-controllable electronic document processing program for processing an electronic document, said program comprising:
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a detection step of detecting beginning positions of at least two of paragraphs, sentences and phrases from among plural elements making up said electronic document;
wherein tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements is added to said electronic document;a step of generating speech read-out data for reading out in a speech synthesizer by adding to the electronic document, speech read-out data providing respective different pause periods at beginning positions of the at least two of paragraphs sentences and phrases;
wherein said speech read-out data generating step adds to said electronic document, attribute information specifying beginning positions of paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up the electronic document and associated pause periods to generate said speech read-out data;a summary text forming step of processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and a selecting step of selecting whether the summary text of the electronic document is to be read out by the speech synthesizer.
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82. An electronic document processing apparatus for processing an electronic document comprising:
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detection means for detecting beginning positions of at least two of paragraphs, sentences and phrases from among plural elements making up said electronic document;
wherein tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements is added to said electronic document;document read out means for speech-synthesizing and reading out said electronic document by providing respective different pause periods at beginning positions of the at least two of paragraphs, sentences and phrases, based on the result of detection by said detection means;
wherein said document read-out means locates paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up said electronic document as unit, based on attribute information specifying beginning positions of the paragraphs, sentences and phrases and associated pause periods;summary text forming means for processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and selection means for selecting whether the document read out means is to read out the summary text of the electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89)
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90. An electronic document processing method for processing an electronic document comprising:
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a detection step for detecting beginning positions of at least two of paragraphs, sentences and phrases from among plural elements making up said electronic document;
wherein tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements is added to said electronic document;a document read out step for speech-synthesizing and reading out said electronic document by providing respective different pause periods at beginning positions of the at least two of paragraphs, sentences and phrases, based on the result of detection by said detection step;
wherein said document read-out step locates paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up said electronic document as unit, based on attribute information specifying beginning positions of the paragraphs, sentences and phrases and associated pause periods;a summary text forming step of processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and a selecting step of selecting whether the summary text of the electronic document is to be read out during the document read out step. - View Dependent Claims (91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97)
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98. A recording medium having recorded thereon a computer-controllable electronic document processing program for processing an electronic document, said program comprising:
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a detection step for detecting beginning positions of at least two of paragraphs, sentences and phrases from among plural elements making up said electronic document;
wherein tag information indicating the inner structure of said electronic document of a hierarchical structure having a plurality of elements is added to said electronic document;a document read out step for speech-synthesizing and reading out said electronic document by providing respective different pause periods at beginning positions of the at least two of paragraphs, sentences and phrases, based on the result of detection by said detection step;
wherein said document read-out step locates paragraphs, sentences and phrases making up said electronic document as unit, based on attribute information specifying beginning positions of the paragraphs, sentences and phrases and associated pause periods;a summary text forming step of processing the electronic document by active diffusion, based on the tag information, to form a summary text of the electronic document; and a selecting step of selecting whether the summary text of the electronic document is to be read out during the document read out step.
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