Patent ID: 8393534

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that operates responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records to cause financial transfers, including: a plurality of hardware devices, each including a user accessible portion that is accessible to a user operating the automated banking machine, wherein the hardware devices include: a card reader operative to read card data on user cards corresponding to financial accounts; an external port, wherein the external port is adapted to enable a portable device to be releasibly connected to the automated banking machine by a user in order for the user to privately hear through the portable device audible information associated with transactions carried out with the automated banking machine; and a display; at least one computer in operative connection with the hardware devices, wherein the at least one computer is operative to cause the automated banking machine to operate to provide the user with a plurality of selectable operational options, each of which the at least one computer is operative to cause the automated banking machine to carry out, wherein the at least one computer is operative to cause the display to output visible information associated with a first financial transaction, and concurrently the external port to cause an audible output through the portable device which includes verbal information associated with the first financial transaction; and the display not to output visible information associated with a second financial transaction, and concurrently the external port to cause an audible output through the portable device which includes verbal information associated with the second financial transaction.