To provide a registering method for a sentence analysis dictionary by which an unregistered word is automatically registered with the sentence analysis dictionary and to provide a voice reading device using the method.
In a voice reading device 1, in which character information is converted into reading information for voice synthesis in a sentence analysis section 12 using a sentence analysis dictionary 13, the sentence analysis section extracts a word, that is not registered in the sentence analysis dictionary, from the obtained character information. A registration process section 21 retrieves a character string, which is constituted of first continuous characters and an open parenthesis following the characters and second continuous characters and a closed parenthesis and one of the first or the second continuous characters is a Chinese character string corresponding to the unregistered word and the other one is a kana character string, from the character string and extracts the Chinese character string as a registration object word and the kana character string as reading kanas. The registration process section 21 converts the reading kanas of the extracted registration object word into a reading word and registers the extracted registration object word and its reading word with the sentence analysis dictionary.
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Tetsuro Maki
Maki Reiko