Patent ID: 7502740
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A communication apparatus for allowing a user to receive and read messages, including email messages, from a distribution server coupled thereto, the communication apparatus comprising: a registration unit registering data including setting data specifying a type of email message not to be read automatically by synthetic speech when it is received from the distribution server; a determining unit determining whether to read a received email message based on the setting data and the received email message when the email message is received from the distribution server; a synthetic-speech output unit converting the received email message into synthetic speech information and outputting the synthetic speech information when the determining unit determines to read the received email message; a display unit; and an operating unit accepting user inputs, including a user input to register setting data into the registration unit and a user input to stop output of the synthetic speech information, wherein, when the operating unit accepts the user input to stop output of the synthetic speech information, the display unit displays a confirmation message prompting the user to confirm whether to have the registration unit register setting data specifying email messages matching the received email message as a type of email message not to be read automatically.