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Abstract

A data processing unit which vocalizes web page data, including non-textual information contained therein, such as font size specifications. A call reception unit accepts a call signal from a user's telephone set. A speech recognition unit recognizes the user's verbal messages received from the telephone set. When a request for a particular web page is detected by the speech recognition unit, a web page data collector makes access to the requested web page to obtain its web page data. A text data extractor extracts every block of text data from the obtained web page data. An attribute extractor extracts attributes of each block extracted by the text data extractor. A vocalization order decision unit determines in what order to vocalize the blocks, evaluating the attributes of each block extracted by the attribute extractor. A vocalizer converts text data contained in the blocks into speech, based on the block vocalization order determined by the vocalization order decision unit.

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