Patent ID: 7249323

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for displaying information on a display screen comprising: an audio output section for generating and outputting a voice based on character information; an information notification section for displaying pieces of character information of interest in a predetermined unit on said display screen and for causing said audio output section to generate and output the voice involved in reading aloud of the character information in synchronism with a display of the character information; an electronic mail receiving section, wherein said information notification section displays character information of interest onto said, display screen and causes the audio output section to generate and output audio as the character information of interest is displayed on the screen, wherein an electronic mail received by said electronic mail receiving section is provided as the character information of interest, wherein, after a display and audio output of From/Subject information of an obtained electronic mail is performed, a display and audio output of text information of said obtained electronic mail is automatically performed if an operation for moving to a predetermined mail or subsequent mail is not performed, and if an operation for moving to a predetermined mail or subsequent mail is performed, a display and audio output of From/Subject information with respect to said predetermined mail or subsequent mail is performed; and wherein said information notification section displays the text information by scrolling the text information across the display screen and displays the From/Subject information on a batch basis without scrolling the From/Subject information.