Patent ID: 8285547

Claim:
An audio font output device, comprising: an inputting unit that receives a plurality of codes; a language input front end processor that transforms the plurality of input codes into a sentence including characters or symbols by choosing from a dictionary based on a predetermined character code system; a font data base that stores a picture data for each of a plurality characters or symbols corresponding to the plurality of codes, and an audio data corresponding to each of the plurality of codes, said audio data including a musical information reflecting a meaning of the character or the symbol, wherein audio reproduced using said audio data is different from an audible pronunciation of the character or the symbol itself; a display unit that displays the character or the symbol based on the picture data corresponding to each of the plurality of input codes; and an audio output unit that outputs an audio signal based on the audio data corresponding to each of the plurality of input codes, wherein the audio data corresponding to the characters or the symbols are output sequentially in order of preference level set for each of word classes, said word classes including a noun, a verb, an adjective, and an imitative word, and wherein an interval between audio data corresponding to the characters or the symbols may be adjusted when said audio data corresponding to the characters or the symbols have no or weak correlation, when a user selects a first timing mode via a user interface, the audio output unit outputs the audio signal based on the audio data each time each of the characters is displayed on the display unit, and when the user selects a second timing mode via the user interface, the audio output unit outputs the audio signal based on the audio data for each of the characters included in the input sentence after a period is input.