Patent ID: 8036875

Claim:
An audio guidance system including a speech information center having a center-side storing means storing speech information in a plurality of languages and a center-side communication means for performing external communication and an electronic apparatus capable of communicating with the center-side communication means, the electronic apparatus comprising: a specific information storing means storing specific information specific to the electronic apparatus, an electronic apparatus-side communication means for communicating with the center-side communication means; an electronic apparatus-side storing means for storing speech information used for audio guidance; a speech output means for providing audio guidance using the speech information stored in the electronic apparatus-side storing means; and an updating means for communicating with the center-side communication means through the electronic apparatus-side communication means to update the information in the electronic apparatus-side storing means by acquiring speech information in a language corresponding to the specific information stored in the specific information means from the center-side storing means; wherein: the updating means transmits the specific information stored in the specific information storing means to the speech information center by the electronic apparatus-side communication means; and the speech information center includes a center-side determining means for determining destination information of the electronic apparatus from the specific information and determining a language corresponding to the destination information as a language corresponding to the specific information, the center transmitting speech information in the language determined by the center-side determining means to the electronic apparatus by the center-side communication means.