Patent ID: 6173060
Filing Date: 2001-01-09
Classification: G04G,G06F

Abstract:
A voice-controlled timing and calculating device, comprising:a microphone adapted to receive a vocal signal from a user;a voice amplifier circuit which receives the vocal signal from the microphone, amplifies the vocal signal and generates an amplified signal;a memory for storing information of operation instruction and data;means for detecting existence of information stored in the memory;means for establishing information into the memory in response to and based on the reception of vocal signals from a user when no existence of information is detected in the memory;a comparsion circuit which receives the amplified signal from the voice amplifier circuit and compares the amplified signal with the information stored in the memory to retrieve a portion of the information including instructions and data corresponding to the amplified signal from the memory;a processor circuit which receives said portion of the information including instructions and data from the comparison circuit and selectively performs a calculation operation and a timing operation in response to the instruction and based on the data of said portion of the information and provides an operation result;a voice synthesizer circuit which receives the operation result from the processor circuit and converts the operation result into synthetic voice; anda speaker for broadcasting the synthetic voice.