Patent ID: 8515760
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: G10L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A mobile terminal, comprising: a communication unit for communicating with a server connected to a network for acquiring information including display objects and display rules; a display unit for displaying the display objects acquired from the server; a storage unit; a speech synthesizer for converting text to speech; and a controller for extracting display objects and display rules which include at least display coordinates of the display objects and are defined by the server, from the acquired information, storing the extracted display objects and the display rules in the storage unit linked with each other, and storing correction values for the display coordinates, displaying the extracted display objects on the display unit according to the display coordinates in the extracted display rules, extracting text from each of the display objects including at least a first word and a second word in that order to form a first word sequence, sorting the first word sequence of the text extracted from the each of the display objects in the storage unit based on each of the display coordinates applied with the stored correction values in a case where the display unit displays two or more display objects to form a second word sequence including at least the second word and the first word in that order, and controlling the speech synthesizer for converting to speech the second word sequence of the text including at least the second word and the first word in that order in response to a request of a start-up of the speech synthesizer to convert the display objects having the first word sequence to speech.