Patent Document ID: 9626338
Application ID: 14597365

Base Claim:
1. A markup assistance apparatus comprising: a processing circuitry coupled to a memory, the processing circuitry being configured to: acquire a feature amount for respective tags, each of the tags being assigned to character strings included in a shared markup text, at least one of the tags being different from other tags and wherein each of the tags is used to control a text-to-speech processing of the shared markup text; calculate, for respective character strings, a dispersion of feature amounts of the tags; detect a first character string assigned with a first tag having the dispersion not less than a first threshold value as a first candidate including the first tag to be corrected; and output the first candidate.

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Claim 2:
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , the processing circuitry further configured to calculate a similarity between respective users based on the feature amounts of tags assigned to each character string by respective users, and to select a second candidate based on tags assigned by first user whose the similarity is not less than a second threshold value, the second candidate indicating a candidate of tag to be assigned to the first candidate, wherein the output unit further presents the second candidate.