A readout device to legibly transmit words sung or spoken in an on-going performance

摘要

A text display device of preferably pocket size is associated with seats of an audience hall or with a radio or television receiver or record player permitting a listener to read out text portions of a score (e.g. opera) as they are being sung or spoken, to improve the total artistic impression. The system comprises storage (e.g. tape) holding consecutive text sequences wherein each key phrase is provided with an index number, a text selection apparatus responsive to entering one of the index numbers to advance to the indexed phrase for readout, a digital transmission system for broadcasting a text passage to a multiplicity of individual display devices, and means-hand operated or automatic for releasing from the storage consecutive text passages in synchronism with action in the performance. The notes of successive portions of a musical score may be displayed.