Patent ID: 8751237

Claim:
A text-to-speech device comprising: a display section configured to display program information, the program information including a plurality of items; a reception section configured to receive selection information about a program in accordance with a user's operation; a sound control section configured to compare the content of each item of currently selected program information about a program currently selected in accordance with a user's operation, with the content of each item of operation-prior program information about the previous program selected just before the user's operation, and determine, as the text-to-speech item, that item of the currently selected program information whose content is the same as the content of the corresponding item of the operation-prior program information and that has not been reproduced as a sound signal; a sound generation section configured to convert the content of the text-to-speech item to a sound signal; and a sound output section configured to reproduce the sound signal obtained through the conversion.