Patent ID: 7230177

Claim:
An apparatus for reproducing a music sound and a voice sound representative of human voice, comprising: a first storing section that stores a music data file containing a music part and a voice part, the music part containing a sequence of music generation events effective to instruct generation of the music sound, the voice part containing voice reproduction sequence data composed of a combination of voice reproduction event data and duration data, the voice reproduction event data being a text description type containing text information representing words to be pronounced as the human voice and prosodic symbols representing vocal expressions applied to pronunciation of the words, and instructing reproduction of a sequence of voice events, the duration data specifying a timing of effecting a voice event in terms of a duration time measured from another voice event preceding to the voice event; a control section that reads out the music data file from the first storing section; and a sound generator section that operates based on the music part contained in the read music data file for generating the music sound representative of the sequence of the music events, and that operates based on the voice part contained in the read music data file for generating the voice sound representative of the sequence of the voice events, thereby mixing and outputting the music sound and the voice sound.