Patent ID: 8182331

Claim:
A gaming machine comprising: a memory device that stores game history information; an output device that outputs speech data or character data of commentary information on the game history; an input device that converts a player's speech into speech data; a speech recognition device that identifies a language of the speech data; a character conversion device that converts the commentary information on game history into character data in the identified language, based on the identified language identified by the speech recognition device; a speech conversion device that converts the character data in the identified language that was converted by the character conversion device, into the speech data of the conversion information on the game history in the identified language, and a computer processor configured to execute steps that include: (a) a process to execute a first game on the condition that betting of gaming value was performed; (b) a process to execute a second game that selects a predetermined number of options from a plurality of options with which prize content is respectively associated in a random manner, if the game result of the first game meets a predetermined condition; (c) a process to present the plurality of options to the player when the second game is started; (d) a process to accept the player's speech input to the input device; (e) a process to extract the commentary information on the game history related to the presented plurality of options; (f) a process to convert the extracted commentary information on the game history into the character data in the identified language identified based on the player's speech, and to output the character data in the identified language to the output device; (g) a process to convert the character data in the identified language that was converted by the speech conversion device, into the speech data of the commentary information in the identified language on the game history, and to output the speech data to the output device; (h) a process to accept the player's selection for the plurality of options; and (i) a process to award a prize for the second game, based on the prize content associated with the option selected by the player.