公开(公告)号：US20210182487A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-17

申请号：US16759103

申请日：2018-10-01

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Yuji KITAZAWA ,  Makoto MURATA ,  Kazumi HIRANO ,  Naoki SHIBUYA ,  Shintaro MASUI

IPC: G06F40/279 ,  G10L13/00 ,  G08B6/00

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to easily impress on the user the important piece of the text data when the sound image outputs the voice for reading aloud the text data. The information processing apparatus includes a control section. The control section analyzes text data, determines importance levels of respective pieces of the text data, and varies a localization position of a sound image of speech voice of the text data with respect to a user in accordance with the importance levels.