Radio receiver, in particular a vehicle radio receiver

Claim 1

A Radio Data System (RDS) receiver comprising: a first receiving stage (11) connected to an antenna (10); a tuning system (12) having an output which controls frequency setting in said first receiving stage (11); an audio demodulator (13) coupled to an output of said first receiving stage (11); an amplifier (14) coupled to an output of said audio demodulator (13); speaker means (15) coupled to an output of said amplifier; a Radio Data System (RDS) demodulator (16) coupled to the output of said first receiving stage (11), decoding traffic bulletins from a digitally encoded portion of a signal received at said antenna (10); means for indicating said traffic bulletins to a user of the radio, by at least one of audio and visual means; a plurality of removable chip cards (18), each said chip card including a data memory (21) and a traffic bulletin evaluation unit (20) connected with said data memory (21), and said data memory (21) includes: at least a locality code area (27) having a plurality of geographical data relating to a specific locality, and a speech stock area (26) having data relating to speech used for speaking said plurality of geographical data in a desired language, with the desired language of one said chip card being different from the desired language of at least one other said chip card; and chip card reading means interfacing with said removable chip card for reading said geographical data and said speech data therefrom in response to said RDS demodulator and for supplying said traffic bulletins relating to said read plurality of geographical data and said read speech data to said means for indicating such that said traffic bulletins are indicated in said desired language.