Abstract: A mobile phone is disclosed wherein an operation window is displayed on a display unit. Buttons for input of information for controlling processing related to an application executed in the mobile phone are displayed in the operation window. A touch panel is provided on the display unit. When a user drags his/her finger on the touch panel as indicated by an arrow, a display position of the operation window is shifted so as to be dragged by the user's finger.

Abstract: The character input device (5) (i) determines an input candidate that is a character string to be inputted at an input position on a basis of a character string before the input position, (ii) causes a display screen to display a candidate selection key to which the determined input candidate is assigned in such a manner as to allow a user to select the candidate selection key, and (iii) when the displayed candidate selection key is selected, inputs at the input position the character string of the input candidate assigned to the selected candidate selection key, the character input device including a first candidate determination section (38) for assigning a Caps key to the candidate selection key, a second candidate determination section (39) for assigning a Done key to the candidate selection key, and an editing candidate determination section (40) for assigning a Clear key to the candidate selection key. This allows determining an input candidate with high probability.

Abstract: An interface device executes a first display process, a moving and display process and a second display process. In the first display process, a plurality of items each including hiragana of Japanese alphabet, are displayed on a full screen liquid display touch panel. In the moving and display process, when one of the plurality of items is touched or touched and dragged, the hiragana of the item is displayed at a position different from the original display position. In the second display process, a touch-up on the full screen liquid crystal touch panel is detected, and a list of options whose names start from the hiragana in the item corresponding to the touched-up position or related information thereto, among the plurality of options, is displayed. Thus, it is possible to easily display a list of desired option group from the options, on the user interface device.

Abstract: A multiple-voice instructing unit (17) instructs pitch deforming ratio and mixing ratio to a multiple-voice synthesis unit (16). The multiple voice synthesis unit (16) generates a standard voice signal by means of waveform superimposition based on voice element data read from a voice element database (15) and prosodic information from a voice element selecting unit (14), expands/contracts the time base of the above standard voice signal based on the prosodic information and instruction information from the multiple-voice instructing unit (17) to change a voice pitch, and mixes the standard voice signal with an expansion/contraction voice signal for outputting via an output terminal (18). Accordingly, a concurrent vocalization by multiple speakers based on the same text can be implemented without the need of time-division, parallel text analyzing and prosody generating and of adding pitch converting as post-processing.

Abstract: A multiple-voice instructing unit (17) instructs pitch deforming ratio and mixing ratio to a multiple-voice synthesis unit (16). The multiple voice synthesis unit (16) generates a standard voice signal by means of waveform superimposition based on voice element data read from a voice element database (15) and prosodic information from a voice element selecting unit (14), expands/contracts the time base of the above standard voice signal based on the prosodic information and instruction information from the multiple-voice instructing unit (17) to change a voice pitch, and mixes the standard voice signal with an expansion/contraction voice signal for outputting via an output terminal (18). Accordingly, a concurrent vocalization by multiple speakers based on the same text can be implemented without the need of time-division, parallel text analyzing and prosody generating and of adding pitch converting as post-processing.

Abstract: In a signal encoding device, a voice signal is divided into subsignals each comprising a predetermined number of successive samples, and data trains are generated by giving initial values to a recurrence equation. The generated data trains are divided into patterns each comprising the same number of samples as the predetermined number. The distance between each pattern produced by the pattern dividing unit and each of the subsignals are calculated. The pattern that provides the smallest distance with respect to each of the subsignals is identified, and the initial value set in the recurrence equation for generation of the data train that constitutes the pattern is output as coded data representing the respective subsignal.

Abstract: A voice recording and reproducing apparatus which includes a voice encoder for encoding a voice signal into a voice code, an address counter, a voice code memory in which the voice code is circulatively stored as specified by the address counter, a discriminator for determining whether the voice signal inputted is a voiced signal or whether the voice signal inputted is a silent signal, and a register for storing an address value of the address counter when the discriminator indicates that the silent signal has changed into the voiced signal. During reproduction, the starting address of the reproduction is determined by a stored address. The stored address represents the address value in the address counter at the time when the discriminator indicates that a silent signal has changed to a voiced signal.

Abstract: A speech analyzing and synthesizing apparatus includes a sampling circuit for sampling an inputted speech signal, a speech analyzer for analyzing and coding the inputted speech signal, and a speech synthesizer for decoding the speech signal coded by said speech analyzer into a synthesized speech, whereby the average code length can be advantageously shortened to realize a low capacity memory and a well-analyzed and synthetized speech. Moreover, a speech recording apparatus is provided wherein a soundless section in the inputted speech signal is compressed by real time, and even a weak short-time portion in the sounded section of an inputted speech signal is not erroneously judged to be soundless, but is coded as a sounded portion.