Patent ID: 8325938

Claim:
An acoustic reproducing apparatus with a handsfree call function, the apparatus comprising: a first speaker held by holding means, with a speaker unit of the first speaker not being attached to a baffle board so as to mix sounds emitted from the front and back of a diaphragm thereof; a second speaker, which is provided in a region where the sounds emitted from the front and back of said diaphragm of said first speaker are mixed and canceled out, configured so as to be switched to a microphone; a switching circuit configured to switch said second speaker to said microphone to switch to a state in which a call voice signal of a user collected at said microphone is transmitted to a handsfree call partner at a time of a handsfree call mode, and to switch to a state in which said audio signal to be reproduced is supplied to said second speaker at a time of an acoustic reproduction mode; audio mixing means configured to supply a mixed audio signal in which an audio signal to be reproduced and a partner audio signal from a call partner are mixed to said first speaker at the time of said handsfree call mode; output means configured to transmit the call voice signal of said user to the call partner at the time of said handsfree call mode; and input means configured to receive a partner call voice signal from said call partner and to supply the partner call voice signal to said first speaker at the time of said handsfree call mode.