| 摘要 |
An educational alarm clock radio is provided that speaks a new word each day when the alarm goes off, the words each being stored in a memory cartridge as an individual increments of information in a sequential set of increments. When the alarm goes off, the word of the day, the definition of that word of the day and its use in a sentence are spoken via the audio portion of the device as the next information increment in the sequence. The word will also be displayed on a screen so the user can see the correct spelling of the word. The word may be replayed at any time during the day by activating a device control. Prior words may be displayed by energizing a reverse control. The entire sequence of previously played words, moreover, can be played in serial fashion through further activation of control or combination of controls. The device also serves as an alarm clock radio with alarm types such as wake by buzzer or radio as well as the wake by words function. The device has a snooze control, which will suspend the audio function of the device for a predetermined time, at which time the audio will replay. This may be repeated any number of times. The snooze control will also repeat a predetermined group of the last words in the sequence encoded in the cartridge. Some cartridges will have sequential information increments that are specific to a particular test (i.e. SAT, MCAT), a foreign language, or a particular theme such as history or science.
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