Patent ID: 7174509

Claim:
A multimodal document reception apparatus for receiving a multimodal document, which contains at least a description of an output style of text data, from a multimodal document transmission apparatus via a network, comprising: speech input means for inputting speech data; setting means for setting user setup information containing a description indicating usage of each output function of said multimodal document reception apparatus, which defines that text in a multimodal document is displayed if a designated display font size of the text is larger than a predetermined size, or the text in the multimodal document is output as speech if a designated display font size of the text is less than the predetermined size; transmission means for transmitting modality information indicating various functions of said multimodal document reception apparatus, the user setup information, and input speech data input by said speech input means to the multimodal document transmission apparatus; reception means for receiving a multimodal document which is generated by the multimodal document transmission apparatus on the basis of the modality information, the user setup information and the input speech data, and for receiving output speech data corresponding to text data to be output as speech in the multimodal document; speech output means for outputting output speech data received by said receiving means; and display control means for controlling displaying text data to be displayed in the multimodal document.