Semiconductor chip for a mobile telephone which includes a text to speech system, a method of aurally presenting information from a mobile telephone and a mobile telephone

摘要

Mobile telephones are not only able to make and receive telephone calls and send text messages but are increasingly being developed with additional functions. These include the ability to play music, access the Internet and/or play games. Digital music formats such as MP3 or ATRAC have the ability to store information within the encoded music stream. Such information can comprise the name of the track, album, musician, singer etc. It is envisaged that mobile telephones could be provided with TTS systems. The present invention is directed towards a mobile telephone in combination with a TTS system which is used to present information regarding music or a game being played or information from the Internet. The present invention thus relates to a semiconductor chip and method of aurally presenting information from a mobile telephone which includes TTS system, comprising: selecting when said information is presented aurally; separating said information from said data stream; providing said information to said TTS; and aurally presenting said information.