Patent ID: RE42647

Claim:
A text-to-speech conversion system for interlocking with multimedia comprising; a multimedia information input unit for organizing text, prosody information, information on synchronization with a moving picture, lip-shape information, picture information, and individual property information including a gender, age, accent, pronunciation and speech rate of synthesized speech; a data distributor for distributing the information from said multimedia information input unit into information for each media; a language processor for converting the text distributed by said data distributor into a phoneme stream, presuming prosody information and symbolizing the presumed prosody information; a prosody processor for calculating a prosody control parameter value from the symbolized prosody information from the language processor; a synchronization adjuster for adjusting a duration of each phoneme using the synchronization information distributed by said data distributor; a synthesis unit database for receiving the individual property information from said data distributor, selecting synthesis units adaptable to gender and age and outputting data required for synthesis; a signal processor for producing a synthesized speech using the prosody control parameter and the data output from said synthesis unit database; and a picture output apparatus for outputting the picture information distributed by said data distributor onto a screen.