Abstract: A method for processing a document wherein, on the transmission side, information is stored in the document for specifying an element of the document whose contents should be changed if necessary according to the conditions of a communication destination. A document processed according to the conditions of the transmission side is analyzed to extract the element of the document to be changed, and information indicating that the extracted element is the element whose contents are to be changed is attached to the extracted element and a document transmission is made.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hypertext markup language (HTML) translating machine. The HTML translating machine automatically converts a HTML document with text described in a first language into a HTML document with text described in a second language.

Abstract: Various appliances and devices are connected to various kinds of networks. An AV system network and a cooking system network are independent from each other. To control an appliance in the cooking system network from the AV system network, an AV system server, receiving a direction from a user, generates a file in which the control for the appliance is described in a reserved or a universal information format which is not used in the AV system network. The file is sent to the cooking system network. The cooking system server temporarily converts the information format or the file to a reserved information format which is not used in the cooking system network. The cooking system server, interpreting the converted file, generates a final command for the target appliance.

Abstract: Currently, when a user remotely controls a home server via the Internet, the home server must be continuously connected to the Internet. This continuous connection has room for improvement in terms of security and communication costs. A user terminal calls a home server, which issues a connection request to an Internet service provider. The provider connects the server to the Internet and allots an IP address to the server. The server sends this address to the user terminal, which issues to the home server a control request over a home network device using the IP address. The home server sends a command to the home network device and receives a status report from the device. The status is thus conveyed to the user.

Abstract: A method for processing a document wherein, on the transmission side, information for specifying an element whose contents are to be changed according to conditions of a place of communication destination is memorized, a document processed according to conditions of the transmission side is analyzed to extract the element, information indicating that the extracted element is the element whose contents are to be changed is attached to the extracted element and transmission is made; and on the other hand, on the receiving side, information for specifying an element whose contents are to be changed to the contents according to conditions on the receiving side and corrective information into such contents are memorized, so that the received document is analyzed and the element is extracted, and based on the memorized information for s change, the contents of the extracted element are changed to the contents according to the conditions.

Abstract: An apparatus for reading out textual information with synthesized speech comprises: a buffer memory 24 for buffering character codes of textual information; a keyword/ read-out region storing unit 22 which stores previously specified keyword and region of the textual information, the region being to be read out and including the keyword; a read-out region retrieving unit 23 which retrieves the keyword from the buffered character codes, and which, when the keyword exists, causes character codes corresponding to the read-out region, to be outputted from the buffer memory 24; a speech synthesizing unit 26 which converts the outputted character codes into a synthesized speech signal; and a loudspeaker 14 for outputting the synthesized speech signal in the form of synthesized speech.

Abstract: A speech synthesis apparatus for synthesizing speech from text data, having a voice characteristic, a tone, a rhythm, etc. which corresponds to the contents of edition on the text data displayed on a screen, by converting a volume, a speed, a pitch, a voice characteristic, etc. of a voice on judging the contents of the edition, such as an edition of a size, a spacing, a font and so on of a character, on the text data displayed on a screen.

Abstract: A karaoke apparatus, a speech reproducing apparatus and a medium on which is recorded a computer program used therefor which output narration of synthesized speech including a requested song name, a requester's name or the like together with an introduction or an interlude of a song, thereby to relieve the boredom of participants during the introduction or the interlude, or the apparatus and the medium which synthesize speech of a chorus, or convert a characteristic of speech input thorough a microphone into a speech characteristic of a professional singer or the like thereby to excite participants.

Abstract: A speech synthesis apparatus for synthesizing speech to read out a text in place of a reader at a speed corresponding to a set time and the text volume, a medium on which is recorded a computer program for reading out a text in place of a reader, an apparatus for calculating time necessary for a reader to finish reading out a text on the basis of the reader's speech characteristic data of a prescribed word or sentence, and a medium on which is recorded a computer program for calculating the read out time.

Abstract: When an updated version of a document conversion application is installed, comparison is made for each word to be converted between a conversion candidate assigned the first priority corresponding to the word to be converted which is held in an old basic dictionary and a conversion candidate assigned the first priority corresponding to the word to be converted which is held in a new basic dictionary. When the conversion candidates assigned the first priority corresponding to the word to be converted differ from each other, priorities assigned to conversion candidates corresponding to the word to be converted in the new basic dictionary are so changed that the conversion candidate assigned the first priority corresponding to the word to be converted which is held in the old basic dictionary also becomes the conversion candidate assigned the first priority corresponding to the word to be converted in the new basic dictionary.