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Text-to-speech device and text-to-speech method

  • US 8,751,237 B2
  • Filed: 02/23/2011
  • Issued: 06/10/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2010
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A text-to-speech device comprising:

  • a display section configured to display program information, the program information including a plurality of items;

    a reception section configured to receive selection information about a program in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation;

    a sound control section configured to compare the content of each item of currently selected program information about a program currently selected in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation, with the content of each item of operation-prior program information about the previous program selected just before the user'"'"'s operation, and determine, as the text-to-speech item, that item of the currently selected program information whose content is the same as the content of the corresponding item of the operation-prior program information and that has not been reproduced as a sound signal;

    a sound generation section configured to convert the content of the text-to-speech item to a sound signal; and

    a sound output section configured to reproduce the sound signal obtained through the conversion.

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