INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM

Patent №

US 6,996,530

Granted

2006-02-07

Filed 2002

Owner

SONY CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10142560

Two types of voice can be set for reading text data of an electronic mail. A user selects a detailed setting button associated with one of the voice types to display a voice setting window, in which setting for the voice can be made individually. A drop-down list box include preset voice types such as woman, man, child, robot, and alien, and also names of voice types corresponding to phonemes created by the user, allowing selection thereof. In relation to a voice selected from the drop-down list box, reading speed, voice pitch, and strength of stress are set according to positions of setting levers.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware0.99
Speech0.89
Machine learning0.01
Knowledge representation0.01
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

SONY CORPORATION

assignment · 131350718

Assignors

SHIZUKA, UTAHA, FUJIMURA, SATOSHI, KATO, YASUHIKO

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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