SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVICE AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a speech synthesis device and a speech synthesis program, for changing sound quality, when reading text with a tag structure. SOLUTION: When reading of a document which is displayed in a browser (S1) is requested (S5:YES), a parse tree is obtained from an XML parser (S10). The structure of a tag is checked for each node according to the parse tree, and if a condition is set in a parameter change table, a change value thereof is obtained, and a read character string and the parameter after changing are set in a buffer (S35). Then, the type of the tag is checked, and if a condition is set in the parameter change table for the tag type, a change value thereof is obtained, and the read character string and the parameter after changing are set in the buffer (S40). The set read character string is speech synthesized by using the specified parameter (S45), and output (S50). COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT