VOICE SYNTHESIZER, VOICE SYNTHESIZING METHOD AND VOICE SYNTHESIZING PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a voice synthesizer, in which individual and dialectal accents are generated from a language dictionary, based on the standard language. SOLUTION: The synthesizer has a text processing means 2, which outputs phoneme string information and rhythm information from the text data, a language dictionary 1 which is referred to by the means 2, a rhythm conversion means 4 which converts the rhythm information, based on a conversion rule and a ruled voice synthesizing means 3 which synthesizes voice waveforms from the phoneme string information and converted rhythm information. The means 4 has an accent conversion rule storage section 401, an accent conversion section 402, a phoneme string conversion rule storage section 403 and a phoneme string conversion section 404. The section 402 converts accent information into accent type information, that is different from input information, in accordance with the conversion rule stored in the section 401. The section 404 converts phoneme string information into a phoneme string that differs from the input information, in accordance with the conversion rule stored in the section 403.