JP2002108601A - Information processing system, device and method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To readily acquire information regarding desired news. SOLUTION: A news viewing computer to receive news articles distributed from a news article distribution computer synthesizes voice based on text information to be included in received transmission data, outputs obtained synthetic voice and displays speaker images (902, 903) to imitate speakers of the synthetic voice. Furthermore, text strings (905, 906) by the synthetic voice are displayed by colors associated with every speaker image.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to information processing technology, and more particularly, to technology for processing information relating to news such as world events.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Various methods have been proposed for transmitting flow information, such as a new news article, which changes every moment to a user. Among them, for example, news programs on television and radio are the oldest and widely spread information providing methods.

[0003] In these, newscasters convey information to users by reading out news manuscripts. Since information is transmitted by voice, information can be collected while cleaning or driving, for example, and it is not always necessary to monopolize the user's attention. In addition, televisions use video to provide more effective information.

On the other hand, with the development of communication technologies such as computers and the Internet, new information providing methods such as a homepage on which the latest news is posted and a service for distributing news by e-mail have been proposed. These methods of providing information have features that TV and radio do not have, in that they provide on-demand information that enables them to obtain information when they want it, and they provide not only one-sided information but also interactivity that allows them to specify desired information such as news genres. Have.
In addition, because it can handle still images and moving images, it is possible to provide more effective information that appeals to the eyes,

However, a news program on a television or radio has a fixed broadcast time,
In addition, since the order of the content of the news to be transmitted is determined by the broadcasting station, the on-demand property that information can be obtained when desired and the interactive property that the viewer can specify the desired information according to the news genre etc. Chip.

[0005] On the other hand, in providing news via a news article posting homepage or a news article service by e-mail, there are high barriers to those who are not good at operating personal computers. In addition, since the information provided is provided only in text, in order to receive the information, it is necessary to always “read” while paying attention to the screen, for example, while cleaning or driving. However, it lacks the convenience of receiving information.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an information processing system and apparatus capable of easily obtaining information about desired news and a method thereof.

[0007]

According to the present invention, there is provided an information processing system for transmitting transmission data including text information, the transmission device being communicably connected to the transmission device, and transmitting the transmission data. An information processing system comprising: a receiving device that receives data; wherein the receiving device performs voice synthesis based on text information included in the received transmission data, and outputs an obtained synthesized voice. First display means for displaying a speaker image imitating a speaker of the synthesized voice; and a second display means for displaying a text string to be uttered by the synthesized voice in a text display form associated with each of the speaker images. 2 display means.

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention for achieving the above object is an information processing apparatus for processing presentation data including text information, wherein the information processing apparatus performs processing based on text information included in the presentation data. Voice output means for performing voice synthesis and outputting the obtained synthesized voice; first display means for displaying a speaker image imitating the speaker of the synthesized voice; and a text string to be uttered by the synthesized voice. Second display means for displaying in a text display form associated with each speaker image.

Further, according to the present invention, there is provided an information processing method executed by the above information processing system or apparatus. Further, according to the present invention, there is provided a storage medium for storing a control program for causing a computer to execute the information processing method.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the embodiment described below, a virtual caster imitating a caster character conveys a news article to a user by voice as in a television program by character animation and voice synthesis, and a character of the corresponding article content. A description will be given of a configuration in which column display is enabled and the content is transmitted to the user by both voice and character strings. Here, for example, news articles are distributed from news article providers via a network such as the Internet, are organized by genre, and communicate the news articles to the user in a predetermined genre order. Furthermore, according to the present embodiment, the user is able to specify a favorite genre by voice input at any time, thereby enabling on-demand and interactive information provision.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an information processing system according to one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 101 denotes a news article distribution computer which distributes news articles provided by a news article provider via a network 103. A news viewing computer 102 outputs a news article distributed via the network 103 using character animation and voice synthesis. That is, in the news viewing computer 102, a program for transmitting the distributed news article to the user in the manner of a television program by virtual casters and character string display operates. Reference numeral 103 denotes the Internet, which performs data communication between the news article distribution computer 101 and the news viewing computer 102.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the news article distribution computer. The news article distribution computer 101 includes a news article holding unit 201 that holds news information to be provided to a user, a news article updating unit 202 that updates the news information held in the news article holding unit 201 to the latest one, The news information held in the article holding unit 201 is transmitted to the communication line 103.
And a communication unit 203 for transmitting to the news viewing computer 102 via

A person who provides news information inputs news information to be provided to the news article distribution computer 101, whereby the input news information is stored in the news article holding unit 201, and the news viewing computer 102 Will be delivered to The news viewing computer 102 can always receive the news information by accessing the news article distribution computer 101.

FIG. 3 shows a news viewing computer 102.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the functions realized by. Reference numeral 301 denotes a news article distribution unit, which is a news article distribution computer 10;
Organize the news articles received from 1 by holding them by genre. 302 is a behavioral description language conversion unit,
Convert a news article into a behavioral description language. An operation description language execution unit 303 moves a virtual caster according to the operation description language created by the operation description language conversion unit 302, causes a news article to be read by speech synthesis, and displays subtitles and the like on a screen.

An information provision process control unit 304 manages the entire process from the start to the end of information provision to the user. Further, the information provision process control unit 304, when there is a user's voice input during execution of the behavioral description language,
The execution of the action description language execution unit 303 is interrupted, and the input is speech-recognized. Thus, the information provision process control unit 304
Manages the news genre to be conveyed, such as switching to the indicated news genre when the user instructs the news genre by voice. A communication unit 305 implements communication between the news article distribution computer 101 and the news article arrangement unit 301.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the news viewing computer 102 for realizing the functions shown in FIG. In FIG. 12, reference numeral 1201 denotes a CPU, which performs various controls of the news viewing computer 102. A ROM 1202 stores a control program executed by the CPU 1201 and various data. 1
Reference numeral 203 denotes a RAM, which functions as a main memory of the CPU 1201, stores various control programs read from the external storage device 1208, and provides a work area for the CPU 1201. An input unit 1204 includes a keyboard or a mouse and inputs various data.

Reference numeral 1205 denotes a display unit for performing various displays on a CRT or a liquid crystal display. Reference numeral 1206 denotes a voice output unit, which is used in this embodiment to output a synthesized voice based on text data. A network interface 1207 connects the network 103 and the news viewing computer 102. An external storage device 1208 includes, for example, a hard disk device. The external storage device 1208 includes a virtual caster definition file 601, a genre definition file 701, a character file group 1210, and a control program 1220.

The virtual caster definition file 601 is composed of data defining the correspondence between virtual casters, animation data and waveform data for speech synthesis (described later with reference to FIG. 6). The genre definition file 701 includes data that defines the correspondence between genres and virtual casters (described later with reference to FIG. 7). Character file group 1
210 includes a plurality of character files (1211). Each character file 1211 includes animation data 1213 for displaying an animation of the character and a waveform dictionary 1212 for performing voice synthesis.
Is included. The control program 1220 is a group of program codes for causing the CPU 1201 to implement the control procedure shown by the flowchart in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of this embodiment. First, the news viewing computer 1
The news article organizing unit 301 of the news article 02 is connected to the news article distribution computer 101 via the communication unit 305 (network interface 1207) and the network 103.
And download the news article, which is
(Step S40)
1).

In order to arrange the downloaded news articles into the form shown in FIG. 5, the correspondence between the news articles and the genres may be designated manually, or the data of the news articles may be analyzed and automatically. The association may be performed. When the news article organizing unit 301 automatically performs the association, for example, the following may be performed.

(1) As shown in FIG. 13, the article data 1301 transmitted from the news article distribution computer 101 to the news viewing computer 102 has a heading 1302, article contents 1303, and attributes 1304. The news viewing computer 102 classifies the genre based on each attribute 1304 of the received article data 1301 (1310), and classifies headlines and article contents (text) as shown in FIG. (2)
Alternatively, a heading 1302 included in the article data 1301
Alternatively, a keyword search is performed for at least one of the article contents 1303, the genre of the article is determined (1311), and the heading and the article contents (text) are classified as shown in FIG. When the method (2) is used, the attribute 1304 of the article data 1301 becomes unnecessary. Further, the above (1) and (2) may be used in combination. Furthermore, in the present embodiment, the result of categorizing news articles by genre is stored as a genre classification table 501 as shown in FIG. 5, but the method of storing the result of genre classification is limited to this. Not something.

In the subsequent processing, information is presented in the order of genre numbers shown in FIG. 5, but it is needless to say that the order may be configured so that the user can set it as desired. .

Further, at this stage, the information provision process control section 304 determines the information provision configuration. The information provision configuration is a rule for determining which genre is uttered by which virtual caster, and in what form a character string indicating the uttered content is displayed. As information for determining the information provision configuration, a virtual caster, a background, an article genre, and the like are set as shown in FIGS.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of the virtual caster definition file 601. The virtual caster definition file 601 associates the name of the virtual caster with the animation data to be used and the waveform dictionary for speech synthesis.
A tag <> indicates the definition of each virtual caster, and its name is defined by name. The color is a character color that forms a character string when the utterance content of the virtual caster is displayed on the screen. It is assigned a different color for each virtual caster. Also,
The file designates a waveform dictionary used for synthesizing the voice of the virtual caster, a character file 1211 defining image data for animation, and the like. Since the details of the waveform dictionary and the details of the data for animation can be realized by using the existing technology, the description is omitted here.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of a genre definition file 701 defining each news genre.
In the genre definition file, correspondence between news genres and virtual casters is registered. The tag <> defines a news genre, and the name defines the name of that genre. Then, the caster specifies a virtual caster that conveys the news of the genre.

The above-mentioned virtual caster definition file 6
01, the genre definition file 701 may be created by a news article provider and distributed at the time of news article distribution, or may be stored in advance in the news viewing computer 102 according to the user's preference. good. In this embodiment, the data shown in FIG. 6 and FIG.
08. Of course, each definition may be changed manually.

When the above-described initialization is completed, the behavioral description language conversion unit 302 generates a behavioral description language for providing news to the user through the processing of steps S402 to S408. That is, the behavioral description language conversion unit 302 includes a genre classification table 501 shown in FIG.
With reference to the virtual caster definition file 601 shown in FIG. 6 and the genre definition file 701 shown in FIG. 7, conversion to an operation description language as shown in FIG. 8 is performed.

First, the news genre number J to be transmitted to the user is initialized to 1 and the article number I is initialized to 1 (step S).
402). Next, in step S403, a command for displaying a virtual caster for reading articles of genre J is described (801 in FIG. 8), and step S404 is performed.
In, about the I-th article data of genre J,
As shown at 802 in FIG.
A description of the audio output and a description of the display of a character string (caption) indicating the content of the audio output are made. The heading and the audio output content are shown in FIG.
Corresponds to the headline 1302 and the article content 1303 in the article data 1301 shown in FIG. 1, and can be easily identified from data described in HTML or the like.

For example, J = 1 is a genre of "politics", and in this genre scene, the virtual caster that conveys the news is "mainCaste" from the genre definition file 701.
r, subCaster ”, describe the action to make these two virtual casters appear at the specified positions (position1, position2) (“ Caster-> Show (mainCaster, position1) ”,
"Caster-> Show (subCaster, position2)"). Next, I
= Describe the operation of displaying the headline of the first news article in the foreground ("FrontText-> Display (opposition opposition to the Prime Minister's statement of tax reduction policy)"). Here, the text color of the heading
A predetermined color is assigned, and in this example, the heading is displayed in red. It is preferable to assign a color not assigned to any virtual caster to the character color for the heading character string. This is because it is easy to distinguish a heading from a reading character string.

Then, the operation of making the virtual caster read the contents of the article is described (“Caster-> Speak (XXX Prime Minister is“ substantial tax reduction ”..., mainCaster)”), and the color specified for each virtual caster is used. Describe the operation of displaying subtitles on the screen ("SpokenText-> Display (XXX Prime Minister is" effective tax reduction ", white)). Here, the behavioral description language conversion unit 302 reads the display color indicated by “color” of the caster from the virtual caster definition file 601 in FIG. 6 based on “mainCaster” and describes it. When a plurality of virtual casters are defined as in the genre of politics, the virtual casters that sequentially read aloud for each sentence may be changed.

When all the action description languages for one article have been executed, it is checked whether the article is the last article of genre J (step S405). If not, the value of J is left unchanged and I is incremented. (Step S407) By returning the process to step S404, the next news article of the genre is converted into the action description language. On the other hand, if it is determined in step S405 that the article is the last article in the genre J, it is checked whether the genre J is the last genre to be read out last (step S406). If not the final genre, to process the next genre,
J is incremented by one, I is initialized to 1 (step S408), and the process returns to step S403.

If it is determined in step S406 that the genre is the last genre, the process proceeds to step S411 and the following steps. In accordance with the motion description language generated by the above processing, the motion description language execution unit 303 executes character animation display, character display, Performs speech synthesis output.

In step S411, the caster definition file 6 is obtained from the caster name specified in the operation description language.
01, the corresponding character file 1211 is acquired, and in step S412, the animation data 1 included in the acquired character file 1211 is acquired.
213 to display an animation character. Next, in step S413, the above-mentioned Spoken T
Displays the text string described by ext-> in the specified color. Then, in step S414, using the waveform dictionary 1212 included in the character file 1211 acquired in step S411, the above-described Caster-> Sp
The text string described by eak is voice-synthesized and output as voice.

In step S415, it is determined whether or not processing has been performed on all data converted into the behavioral description language.
If there is data to be processed, the process returns to step S411. If the processing has been completed, the processing ends. In addition,
In the above processing procedure, all the data arranged as shown in FIG. 5 are converted into the behavioral description language and then the execution of the behavioral description language is started. However, the execution of the behavioral description language is started without waiting for the end of the conversion into the behavioral description language. The execution of the operation description language may be started.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a screen presented to the user when providing information. Reference numeral 901 denotes a screen on which a virtual caster operates and presents subtitles of a news article to a user. Virtual casters 902 and 903 read out news articles. Reference numeral 904 denotes a headline of a news article.
Reference numeral 905 denotes a caption display of the content uttered by 902 and 906 denotes a caption display of the content uttered by 903.

In FIG. 9, different subtitles have different character colors defined by "color" in FIG. 6 for each uttered virtual caster.
All the utterance contents of virtual caster 902 are displayed in the same color as 905, and all the utterance contents of virtual caster 903 are 906.
Is displayed in the same color as that of the virtual caster, and is displayed in a different color for each virtual caster. The display color of the headline 904 of the article is also specified in advance, and is displayed in a character color different from the caption of the utterance content of each virtual caster.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the delivered news article is read out by speech synthesis, so that it is not necessary to always read the text displayed intensively on the screen, and information can be easily collected. be able to.

[0039] In addition to displaying the headline of the article in subtitles in addition to the speech synthesis output, the subtitles display the read-out contents, so that a person with a hearing impairment can use it, or even if the surroundings are too noisy and the sound is difficult to hear. , So that the contents can be correctly recognized. Furthermore, according to the present embodiment, since the character color of subtitles corresponding to each heading or caster is changed and displayed, among subtitles of articles that are variously displayed on the screen, which is the heading and which is It can be easily grasped as to whether the content is read out by the virtual caster and which virtual caster displayed on the screen is reading out the content.

In the above embodiment, the character color is determined for each heading or virtual caster, and the heading and utterance contents are displayed. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The point is that it is only necessary for the user to know whether the displayed character is a heading or the utterance content of which virtual caster. In order to make that recognition possible, a different display form is used for each heading or virtual caster. It may be used.

For example, FIG. 10 shows an example in which the utterance content of each virtual caster is displayed in the vicinity of the virtual caster to clearly indicate which caster the utterance content is. In order to realize such display, the behavioral description language conversion unit 302 may generate a behavioral description language as shown in FIG. 11 and execute this by the behavioral description language execution unit 303.

As shown in FIG. 11, in the description representing the display of the utterance content, the display position of the virtual caster performing the utterance is additionally described. For example, "SpokenText-> Display
(XXX Prime Minister of "Real tax reduction" ..., white, position
1) ”, the display position“ po ”of“ mainCaster ”
The subtitle is displayed at the relative position determined from “sition1” (1101 in FIG. 11). Similarly, the display position “pos” of “subCaxter” is described by the description 1102 in FIG.
The subtitle is displayed at the relative position determined from ition2 ”.
The relative position of the caption may be a predetermined value or a value may be specified in the operation description.
In this case, the character color of the utterance content of each virtual caster does not have to be different for each virtual caster. According to the above description 1101, the caption 1002 of the utterance content is displayed near the mainCaster animation 1001 as shown in FIG.
Is displayed, and a caption 1004 of the utterance content is displayed near the animation 1003 of the subCaster.

As described above, the example in which the character color and the display position are used as the display form different for each heading or virtual caster has been described. However, various other modified examples can be considered. For example,
The character size or font may be changed for each virtual caster or heading, the background of the subtitle portion may be changed, or the ruled line may be changed.

In the above embodiment, the definition of the virtual caster is shown in FIG. 6, the definition of the news genre is shown in FIG. 7, and the operation description language is described in FIG. 8, but the present invention is not limited to this. Any description format that satisfies the purpose is acceptable.

In the above embodiment, a news article is described as an example of data to be distributed. However, the information presentation method of this embodiment can be applied to other data such as various advertisements. .

Further, in the above embodiment, the case where each data communication is performed using the Internet has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and any communication means may be used. Lines may be used.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where the program is stored in the external storage device 1208 and loaded into the RAM 1203 for use is described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and an arbitrary storage medium such as a ROM may be used. It may be realized. Further, it may be realized by a circuit that performs the same operation.

The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of one device. A recording medium storing software program codes for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or an apparatus, and a computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus executes the program code stored in the recording medium. Needless to say, this can also be achieved by executing the reading. in this case,
The program code itself read from the recording medium implements the functions of the above-described embodiment, and the recording medium on which the program code is recorded constitutes the present invention.

As a recording medium for supplying the program code, for example, a floppy (registered trademark) disk,
A hard disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a CD-ROM, a CD-R, a magnetic tape, a nonvolatile memory card, a ROM, and the like can be used.

When the computer executes the readout program code, not only the functions of the above-described embodiment are realized, but also the OS and the like running on the computer are actually executed based on the instructions of the program code. It goes without saying that a part or all of the above-described processing is performed, and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

Further, after the program code read from the recording medium is written into a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, based on the instruction of the program code, It goes without saying that the CPU provided in the function expansion board or the function expansion unit performs a part or all of the actual processing, and the processing realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments.

[0052]

As described above, according to the present invention,
It is possible to easily obtain information about news that the user wants.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram illustrating a configuration of a system according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating functions realized by a news article distribution computer 101 according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a news viewing computer 1 according to the embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a function realized by 02.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of an information presentation process according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a state where news articles are organized by genre in the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a file defining a virtual caster according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a file defining each news genre in the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of generating a behavioral description language in the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display by an information providing process according to the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display by an information providing process according to another embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of generating a behavioral description language according to another embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a news viewing computer according to the embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating categorization of news articles according to the embodiment.

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Claims (19)

[Claims] 1. An information processing system comprising: a transmission device that transmits transmission data including text information; and a reception device that is communicably connected to the transmission device and receives the transmission data. Voice synthesis means for performing voice synthesis based on text information included in the received transmission data, and outputting the obtained synthesized voice; and a first display for displaying a speaker image imitating a speaker of the synthesized voice. An information processing system, comprising: means for displaying a text string to be uttered by the synthesized voice in a text display form associated with each of the speaker images. 2. A first memory for storing display correspondence information indicating a correspondence between each of a plurality of speaker images and a display form of a text string.
Holding means, wherein the first display means displays a speaker image selected from the plurality of speaker images, and the second display means displays a form corresponding to the selected speaker image. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the text string is displayed in the display form obtained from the display correspondence information. 3. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the display correspondence information is transmitted from the transmitting device to the receiving device. 4. A second holding means for holding genre correspondence information indicating a correspondence between the plurality of speaker images and genres, wherein the receiving device identifies a genre of text information included in the transmission data and identifies the genre. Selecting means for selecting a speaker image corresponding to the selected genre based on the genre-corresponding information, wherein the first display means displays the speaker image selected by the selecting means. Item 2. The information processing system according to item 1. 5. The genre correspondence information is transmitted from the transmitting device to the receiving device.
An information processing system according to claim 1. 6. The text display form associated with each speaker image in the second display means is at least one of a character color, a size, and a font. Information processing system. 7. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the second display unit displays the text string in a predetermined positional relationship with a display position of the speaker image. . 8. The text information included in the transmission data includes a heading text and an utterance content text, and further comprising a third display means for displaying the heading text so as to be distinguishable from the text display by the second display means. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein: 9. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the speaker image is an animation imitating a speaker. 10. An information processing apparatus for processing presentation data including text information, wherein the speech synthesis unit performs speech synthesis based on the text information included in the presentation data, and outputs an obtained synthesized speech. First display means for displaying a speaker image imitating the speaker of the synthesized voice; and a second display means for displaying a text string to be uttered by the synthesized voice in a text display form associated with each of the speaker images. An information processing apparatus comprising: two display means. 11. A system according to claim 11, further comprising first holding means for holding display correspondence information indicating a correspondence between each of the plurality of speaker images and a display form of a text string, wherein said first display means includes a plurality of said speaker images. Displaying the speaker image selected from the above, and the second display means obtains a display form corresponding to the selected speaker image from the display correspondence information, and displays the text string in the display form. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein: 12. A second holding unit for holding genre correspondence information indicating a correspondence between the plurality of speaker images and genres, and a genre of text information included in the presentation data is identified. 11. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising selection means for selecting a corresponding speaker image based on the genre correspondence information, wherein the first display means displays the speaker image selected by the selection means. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1. 13. The method according to claim 10, wherein the text display form associated with each speaker image in the second display means is at least one of a character color, a size, and a font. Information processing device. 14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the second display unit displays the text string in a predetermined positional relationship with a display position of the speaker image. . 15. The system according to claim 15, wherein the text information included in the transmission data includes a heading text and an utterance content text, and further comprising third display means for displaying the heading text so as to be distinguishable from the text display by the second display means. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein: 16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the speaker image is an animation imitating a speaker. 17. A transmission device for transmitting transmission data including text information, and communicably connected to the transmission device,
A method for controlling an information processing system, comprising: a receiving device that receives the transmission data; a voice output step of performing voice synthesis based on text information included in the received transmission data, and outputting an obtained synthesized voice. A first display step of displaying a speaker image imitating the speaker of the synthesized voice; and a second display step of displaying a text string to be uttered by the synthesized voice in a text display form associated with each of the speaker images. An information processing method comprising: two display steps. 18. An information processing method for processing presentation data including text information, comprising the steps of: performing voice synthesis based on text information included in received transmission data; and outputting an obtained synthesized voice. A first display step of displaying a speaker image imitating the speaker of the synthesized voice; and a second display step of displaying a text string to be uttered by the synthesized voice in a text display form associated with each of the speaker images. An information processing method comprising: two display steps. 19. A storage medium for storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the information processing method according to claim 17.