Patent ID: 8083587

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a conversation device which recognizes a voice of a player and outputs an answer in accordance with the recognized voice; an input device which inputs a voice; an output device which outputs a voice; a volume adjusting device which adjusts volume of voice to be outputted from the output device; a game value memory device which stores therein the number of game values given and the number of game values consumed; a transmitting device which transmits to outside a difference between the total number of game values given and the total number of game values consumed, as a game value difference; a receiving device which receives a game value difference from outside; and a controller which is programmed to operate in the steps of: (a1) sequentially storing the number of game values consumed per unit game; (a2) sequentially storing the number of game values given per unit game; (a3) calculating a difference between the total number of game values given and the total number of game values consumed, as a self game value difference; (a4) transmitting the self game value difference to outside; (a5) receiving someone's game value difference from outside; and (a6) when the self game value difference and the someone's game value difference are in a predetermined relationship, voice-outputting, by the conversation device, an answer at volume corresponding to the predetermined relationship from the output device in response to a voice input through the input device.