Abstract: In a synchronization control apparatus, a voice-language-information generating section generates the voice language information of a word which a robot utters. A voice synthesizing section calculates phoneme information and a phoneme continuation duration according to the voice language information, and also generates synthesized-voice data according to an adjusted phoneme continuation duration. An articulation-operation generating section calculates an articulation-operation period according to the phoneme information. A voice-operation adjusting section adjusts the phoneme continuation duration and the articulation-operation period. An articulation-operation executing section operates an organ of articulation according to the adjusted articulation-operation period.

Abstract: Identification information, access information indicating that a main body of a mail message has not been accessed nor read at a destination terminal, information about the sender, information about the receiver, time and date information, and subject information each collated to each other is stored and managed as a transmitted mail managing information in a mail box. When a mail message is transmitted, a transmitted mail message including a return mail program actuated to return a response, when the transmitted mail message is accessed and read at the destination terminal, an acknowledgement that the transmitted mail message has been accessed and read and identification information for the transmitted mail message as a returned mail to a server.

Abstract: Voice-generating information, comprising discrete voice data for velocity or pitch of a voice is made by dispensing the discrete data so that the voice data is not dependent on a time lag between phonemes and at the same time is present at a relative level against a reference thereof. The said information includes data on plural types of voice tone, and is stored in a voice-generating information storing section. Voice tone data indicating sound parameters for each voice element, such as phoneme for each voice tone type, is stored in a voice tone storing section. Voice data, corresponding to the type of voice tone in the voice-generating information stored in the voice-generating storing section, is selected from a plurality of voice type data stored in the voice tone storing section under control by a control section. Meter patterns, which occur successively in the direction of a time axis, are developed according to the voice-generating information.

Abstract: A spread sheet reading-out/collating apparatus, in which a spread sheet preparation module obtains a range to be read out from a position of a header cell specified by a read-out object specifying module using a read-out range determining module and outputs cell data within the range to be read out as well as the display format to a voice-generating data generation module, a voice-generating data generation module generates voice-generating data for a text comprising a Chinese and a Japanese characters mixed therein, and a voice synthesis module outputs voices based on the voice-generating data.

Abstract: The table document preparation module prepares a table document containing cells, the read-out attribute setting module sets a read-out attribute specifying a way of reading-out cell data supplied through the setting screen from the table document preparation module being assisted by the setting display module, and voice-generating data generation module generates voice-generating data for the table document according to the way of reading out specified by the read-out attribute, and the voice synthesis module synthesizes voices according to the voice-generating data.

Abstract: A voice-generating information making apparatus comprises: a talking way data storing section for storing therein talking way data comprising character string information grouped according to the character string information, a character string input unit for inputting a character string (consisting of a control section, an application storing section, a key entry section, and a display section), a retrieving unit for retrieving a group having the same character string information as the inputted character string, a voice tone data storing section for storing therein a plurality of voice tone data, a voice synthesizing section for synthesizing a voice, a voice selecting unit for selecting a desired voice from the synthesized voice, and a voice-generating document storing section for storing therein talking way data corresponding to the selected voice as a voice-generating document in correlation to the inputted character string.

Abstract: An information communication system, having host and remote terminal devices, and method for generating a voice in which one voice tone data is selected from a plurality of types of voice tone data and stored according to received voice generating information. The voice is reproduced by generating a voice waveform according to a meter pattern and selected voice tone data. The discrete voice data may be presented for either one or both of velocity and pitch of a voice correlated to a time lag between discrete voice data. The discrete data is dispensed so that each voice data is not dependent on a time lag between phonemes and at the same time is present at a level relative to a reference value. Voice tone data indicating a sound parameter for each voice element such as a phoneme for each voice tone type is stored in a voice tone data storing section in a terminal device.

Abstract: A signal processing system comprises a delta-sigma modulation unit supplied with an input analog signal for producing one-bit data as a result of a delta-sigma modulation, an arithmetic unit supplied with the output one-bit data of the delta-sigma modulation unit for applying a predetermined arithmetic operation thereon, an integration unit for integrating an output of the arithmetic unit to produce multiple-bit data as an output, a comparator unit supplied with the multiple-bit data from the integration unit at a first input port and multiple-bit reference data at a second input port for producing one-bit data as a result of comparison, a feedback unit supplied with the output of the comparator unit for producing the multiple-bit reference data based upon the one-bit data produced by the comparator unit such that said reference data predicts the multiple-bit data supplied to the first input port, and a digital-to-analog conversion unit supplied with said output one-bit data of the comparator unit for convert

Abstract: In a speaker verification system, a detecting part detects a speech section of an input speech signal by using a time-series acoustic parameters thereof. A segmentation part calculates individuality information for segmentation by using the time-series acoustic parameters within the speech section, and segments the input speech section into a plurality of blocks based on the individuality information. A feature extracting part extracts features of an unknown speaker for every segmented block by using the time-series acoustic parameters. A distance calculating part calculates a distance between the features of the speaker extracted by the feature extracting part and reference features stored in a memory. A decision part makes a decision as to whether or not the unknown speaker is a real speaker by comparing the calculated distance with a predetermined threshold value.