Electronic equipment which outputs data in synthetic voice

Claim 2

An electronic device comprising: a voice memory for storing a plurality of digital signals, each signal representing one of a plurality of kinds of voice information which information has the same meaning, each kind of voice information having a different sound quality; an information memory for storing information to be produced as output; selecting means for selecting one of said digital signals having a desired sound quality, said selecting means comprising a condition memory for storing a selecting condition for said selecting means selecting said ones of said digital signals in accordance with said condition stored in said condition memory; and output means operable in response to said selecting means for utilizing said selecting digital signals to produce as a synthetic voice output at least a portion of said information from said information memory.

Claim 3

An electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said selecting means includes means for selecting one of said plurality of digital signals in accordance with positive and negative information which is included in the information to be produced.

Claim 4

An electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said selecting means selects one of said plurality of digital signals in accordance with registration information and information concerning the result of an arithmetic operation which informations are included in the information to be produced.

Claim 5

An electronic device comprising: a voice memory for storing a plurality of digital signals, each signal representing one of a plurality of kinds of voice information which information has the same meaning, each kind of voice information having a different sound quality; an information memory for storing information to be produced as output; a discriminating memory for storing discrimination information to formulate an output format of the information to be produced as output; selecting means for selecting ones of said digital signals having a desired sound quality, said selecting means comprising a condition memory for storing a selecting condition for said selecting means selecting said ones of said digital signals in accordance with said condition stored in said condition memory; and output means operable in response to said selecting means for utilizing said selected digital signals to produce as a synthetic voice output a portion of said information from said information memory.

Claim 6

An electronic device comprising: a voice memory for storing a plurality of digital signals, each signal representing one of a plurality of kinds of voice information which information has the same meaning, each kind of voice information having a different sound quality; an information memory for storing information to be produced as output; a discriminating memory for storing discrimination information to formulate an output format of the information to be produced as output; selecting means for selecting ones of said digital signals having a desired sound quality, said selecting means comprising a condition memory for storing a selecting condition for said selecting means selecting said ones of said digital signals in accordance with said condition stored in said condition memory; and output means operable in response to said selecting means for utilizing said selected digital signals to produce as a synthetic voice output a portion of said information from said information memory.

Claim 7

An electronic device as set forth in claim 4, wherein said discrimination memory includes a memory for storing item count information.

Claim 8

An electronic device as set forth in claim 4, wherein said discrimination memory includes a memory for storing signal representing overflow state.

Claim 9

An electronic device as set forth in claim 4, wherein said discrimination memory includes a memory for storing digit places of said information to be produced as output.

Claim 10

An electronic device as set forth in claim 4, wherein said discrimination memory includes a memory for storing the kind of said information to be produced as output.

Claim 11

An electronic device for outputting information in a synthetic voice, comprising: memory means for storing information to be produced as output; selecting means for selecting vocal sound quality for the information to be produced as output, said selecting means having a manual switch for selecting one of a plurality of sound qualities; output means coupled to said memory means and said selecting means, for producing as a synthetic voice output the information to be produced as output with the one of said plurality of sound qualities selected by said selecting means; and a condition memory for storing a selection instruction for said manual switch.

Claim 12

An electronic device for outputting information in a synthetic voice, comprising: memory means for storing information to be produced as output; selecting means for selecting vocal sound quality for the information to be produced as output, said selecting means having a manual switch for selecting one of a plurality of sound qualities; output means coupled to said memory means and said selecting means, for producing as a synthetic voice output the information to be produced as output with the one of said plurality of sound qualities selected by said selecting means; and a condition memory for storing a selection instruction for said manual switch.

Claim 13

An electronic device for outputting information in synthetic voice as set forth in claim 9, wherein said output means includes a digital voice memory corresponding to the information to produce a synthetic voice representative of the information.

Claim 14

An electronic device for outputting information in a synthetic voice as set forth in claim 10, wherein said digital voice memory includes a memory for storing digital voice information having a different sound quality.

Claim 15

An electronic device for outputting information in a synthetic voice, comprising: memory means for storing information to be produced as output; first output control means coupled to said memory means, for producing the information to be produced as output with a voice having a first sound quality; discriminating means for discriminating specific information out of the information to be produced as output of said memory means wherein said discriminating means includes a condition memory for storing a condition for discrimination; and second output control means coupled to said discriminating means, for producing the specific information discriminated by said discriminating means as output with a voice having a second sound quality.

Claim 16

An electronic device for outputting information in a synthetic voice, comprising: memory means for storing information to be produced as output; first output control means coupled to said memory means, for producing the information to be produced as output with a voice having a first sound quality; discriminating means for discriminating specific information out of the information to be produced as output of said memory means wherein said discriminating means includes a condition memory for storing a condition for discrimination; and second output control means coupled to said discriminating means, for producing the specific information discriminated by said discriminating means as output with a voice having a second sound quality.