1. A voice quality change portion locating apparatus which locates, based on language analysis information regarding a text, a portion of the text where voice quality may change when the text is read aloud, said apparatus comprising: a storage unit in which a rule is stored, the rule being used for judging likelihood of the voice quality change based on phoneme information and prosody information; a voice quality change estimation unit operable to estimate the likelihood of the voice quality change which occurs when the text is read aloud, for each predetermined unit of an input symbol sequence including at least one phonologic sequence, based on (i-1) phoneme information and (i-2) prosody information which are included in the language analysis information that is a symbol sequence of a result of language analysis including a phonologic sequence corresponding to the text, and (ii) the rule; and a voice quality change portion locating unit operable to locate a portion of the text where the voice quality change is likely to occur, based on the language analysis information and a result of the estimation performed by said voice quality change estimation unit.
1. A voice quality change portion locating apparatus which locates, based on language analysis information regarding a text, a portion of the text where voice quality may change when the text is read aloud, said apparatus comprising: a storage unit in which a rule is stored, the rule being used for judging likelihood of the voice quality change based on phoneme information and prosody information; a voice quality change estimation unit operable to estimate the likelihood of the voice quality change which occurs when the text is read aloud, for each predetermined unit of an input symbol sequence including at least one phonologic sequence, based on (i-1) phoneme information and (i-2) prosody information which are included in the language analysis information that is a symbol sequence of a result of language analysis including a phonologic sequence corresponding to the text, and (ii) the rule; and a voice quality change portion locating unit operable to locate a portion of the text where the voice quality change is likely to occur, based on the language analysis information and a result of the estimation performed by said voice quality change estimation unit. 10. The voice quality change portion locating apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said voice quality change estimation unit is operable to estimate the likelihood of the voice quality change for the each predetermined unit, using, as an input, at least a kind of a phoneme, the number of moras in an accent phrase, and an accent position among the language analysis information.