Patent ID: 7885814

Claim:
A text information display apparatus, comprising: a storage unit for storing text information including display objects with text and display rules for defining display styles of the display objects, wherein said display rules do not comprise audio styles of the display objects, a display unit for displaying the display object stored in the storage unit, a speech synthesizer for converting text to speech, a controller for, if the speech synthesizer is requested to convert text of the display objects displayed on the display unit to speech, referring to the corresponding display rules of text to be converted to speech and controlling the speech synthesizer based on the corresponding display rules so as to convert with a first voice in a case that the referred display rules comprise a predetermined display rule and to convert with a second voice in a case that the referred display rules do not comprise the predetermined display rule, wherein the display rules include a link destination display rule indicating that a link destination is linked with the display object, a communication unit for connecting to a network and acquiring the text information, an operation unit for determining at least one display object displayed on the display unit, and the controller controls the speech synthesizer so as to convert the text included in the determined display object to speech after the link destination is accessed by the communication unit when the display object linked with the link destination is determined by the operation unit.