Patent ID: 8965769
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
1. A markup assistance apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a feature amount for respective tags, each of the tags being used to control text-to-speech processing of a shared markup text, the shared markup text including character strings assigned with the tags, at least one of the tags being different from other tags, the feature amount being a value used to define a first similarity which indicates a degree of similarity between tags; a first calculation unit configured to calculate, for respective character strings, a variance of feature amounts of the tags which are assigned to the character strings in the shared markup text; a detection unit configured to detect a first character string assigned with a first tag having the variance not less than a first threshold value as a first candidate including the tag to be corrected; and a presentation unit configured to present the first candidate.