Electronic mail reading device and method and text conversion processing medium

摘要

In the electronic mail reading apparatus, the text shaping unit 101 analyzes the format of the quotation portion and deletes the quotation marks for the main part of the e-mail text, and shapes the text portion of the sentence sentence into the text of the format of one sentence unit. At this time, the command tag designating the read operation is inserted before and after the quote portion. The text conversion unit 105 converts the text into rules which are easy to understand through the text conversion rules. At this time, the command tag is inserted before and after the conversion portion. The voice synthesizing unit 108 synthesizes the voice reading operation while controlling the speech synthesizing operation in accordance with the designation of the command tag, and converts the text of the text into a final read voice.