Patent ID: 8352267

Claim:
An information processing system comprised of a plurality of input devices and an information processing apparatus for executing a predetermined information processing based on an operation performed by a user using each of the plurality of input devices and for displaying an image in a display area of a display device based on the information processing, wherein each of the plurality of the input devices includes: a speaker; operation data transmitting programmed logic circuitry for transmitting operation data including pointing data designating a position in the display area based on a predetermined operation input; voice data receiving programmed logic circuitry for receiving voice data representing voice to be outputted from the speaker from the information processing apparatus; and voice controlling programmed logic circuitry for outputting the voice from the speaker based on the received voice data, and the information processing apparatus includes: voice storing area for storing predetermined voice data; object displaying programmed logic circuitry for displaying at least one object associated with the predetermined voice data in the display area; operation data acquiring programmed logic circuitry for acquiring the operation data for each of the plurality of input devices; pointing position determining programmed logic circuitry for determining, for each of the plurality of input devices, a pointing position in the display area based on the pointing data included in the acquired operation data; object specifying programmed logic circuitry for specifying, for each of the plurality of input devices, one of the at least one object displayed at the pointing position; voice reading programmed logic circuitry for reading the voice data associated with the specified object; voice data transmitting programmed logic circuitry for transmitting the voice data read by the voice reading programmed logic circuitry to each of the input devices pointing to the specified object; pronunciation image generating programmed logic circuitry for generating an image displaying a full phonetic pronunciation of the character string representing the specified at least one object that is associated with the predetermined voice data; and pronunciation image displaying programmed logic circuitry for displaying the image displaying the full phonetic pronunciation of the character string in a vicinity of a display position of the specified object and configured to correspond to the voice data transmitted to the input device pointing to the specific object by the voice data transmitting programmed logic circuitry.