The development of the voice read-out system for digital television receiver

We hope that every people can enjoy the convenient functions of digital broadcasting such as an Electronic Program Guide (EPG). In 2007, Mitsubishi Electric launched the mass-produced LCD television equipped with the EPG voice read-out system to Japanese domestic market. This paper describes the development of the voice read out function of a digital television receiver, background of development, the introduced speech synthesis system and the improvement degrees of every model based on end-user's opinions are summarized respectively.