JPS59109892A - Voice timepiece - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it possible to popularize this timepiece in a wide area without limiting a user by announcing a message with plural national languages selectively. CONSTITUTION:The storage area of a storage circuit M is divided into (n), and a message ''Good morning'' is stored in respective divided areas with n-number of national languages. An address designating circuit AD designates a selected storage area of the storage circuit M by the output from an input circuit IN. When the output is generated from a comparing circuit CM at a set time, the message in the storage area is read out by the output of the address designating circuit AD. This message is subjected to D/A conversion by a D/A converting circuit DT, and the message is announced with a selected national language from an announcing device SP. As the result, this timepiece can be popularized in a wide area without limiting user.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention relates to a voice clock.

Conventional audio clocks announce messages with a specific voice at a desired time. For example, announcements are made in Japanese such as ``Good morning'' or ``It's now OQ: 00 minutes''. Therefore, it was only understandable to Japanese people or people who could understand Japanese.

Therefore, the present invention enables messages to be selectively announced in any of the languages of multiple countries.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings. O8
is an oscillator, DV is a frequency divider, OT is a clock circuit, PR is an alarm time setting circuit, and CM is a comparison circuit. M is a memory circuit whose memory area is divided into n parts, each area storing a message saying "good evening" in n languages. 81 to Sn are switches for selecting the language of each country, and their outputs are supplied to the input circuit IN. The addressing circuit AD designates the selected storage area of the storage circuit M according to the output from the input circuit N. Then, when an output is generated from the comparator circuit CM at the set time, the message in the storage area is read out by the output of the address designation circuit AD, which is D/A converted by the D/A conversion circuit DTK, and selected from the sound generation device. The message will be announced in the language of the country where the message was sent.

In addition, in the above embodiment, an example was described in which a message is announced at the alarm time, but this is not limited to announcing the message on the hour, etc.
Audio Clock for the Blind 1. Confirmation of various switch operations can be applied even to blind people as long as the notification is made by audio, such as confirmation of various switch operations.

As described above, according to the present invention, since messages can be selectively announced in multiple languages, the number of users is not limited and the message can be disseminated to a wide range of people. It can also be useful for language learning.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawing is a schematic diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. M...Memory circuit AD...Address designation circuit IN...Input circuit 5l-8n...Switch DT-D/A...Conversion circuit Dane...Sound generation device Upper applicant Seikosha Co., Ltd. Agent Patent attorney Tsutomu Mogami

Claims (1)

[Claims] It is equipped with a memory circuit that stores messages with the same content in languages of multiple countries, a selection circuit that selects a message in the language of a desired country from this memory circuit, and a control circuit that notifies the message selected by the selection circuit. voice clock.