Patent ID: 8014884

Claim:
An audio conversation apparatus comprising an assignment section for individually assigning distance effects, which are different from each other, to parties-to-talk-with, each party-to-talk-with belonging to one of a plurality of predetermined groups, or to the plurality of predetermined groups, and a localization section for localizing, in accordance with the distance effects assigned by said assignment section, audio data transmitted from outside by a party-to-talk-with of the parties-to-talk-with, or by a predetermined group of the predetermined groups, the audio data transmitted corresponding to a source of the audio data, a reproduction section for outputting audio in accordance with the audio data localized by said localization section, the audio outputted being in accordance with the distance effects assigned by said assignment section; and an utterance operation including a plurality of buttons arranged in unique positions corresponding to distance effects to be assigned by the assignment section, wherein each button of the plurality of buttons corresponds a distance effect of the distance effects of the audio outputted by the reproduction section, and is configured such that, when operated, a conversation with the party-to-talk-with of the parties-to-talk-with or the predetermined group of the predetermined groups that corresponds to the source of the audio data begins.