59. A text-to-speech processing apparatus according to claim 47, further comprising a look-up table stored in said memory, wherein said speech commands are generated in accordance with said look-up table.
47. A text-to-speech processing apparatus comprising: a processing unit including a computer for executing stored program process steps; a memory for storing plural files which include text and for storing process steps for execution by said processing unit; and a text-to-speech converter for converting characters in a text stream into speech and for executing speech commands; wherein said process steps include steps to select one of the data files stored in said memory, to advance a pointer through the selected data file, to parse characters at the pointer's position to detect in the text stream unspoken characters and spoken characters, to feed the spoken characters to said text-to-speech converter, to generate pre-designated text sequences in response to detection of unspoken characters, to replace, within said text stream, said unspoken characters with said pre-designated text sequences, to feed the replaced text stream to said text-to-speech converter, to generate speech commands in response to detection of unspoken characters, and to feed the generated speech commands to said text-to-speech converter for execution thereby, whereby text in the selected data file is converted to speech.