Portable computer with verbal annotations.

摘要

A portable computer (31) has a voice section (30) and is capable of processing texts and verbal inserts originating from the voice section The computer (31) comprises a voice conversion unit (107) a hard disc unit (84) for the storage in memory or the reproduction of texts and of verbal inserts and function keys (FN F9) to command the access to a voice management program (VOICE). An annotation command (ANNOTATE) permits the visual display on a screen (37) and the leaving in the text of a linkage track for a verbal insert datum. The computer comprises a cover (33), which carries preset keys (97) which are accessible from the outside for the handling of verbal inserts as in a cassette recorder. The computer (33) links the inserts both in commercial WP program texts and in texts of a resident program NOTE which is specialised for texts with call-ups for the inserts. It further provides a plurality of compression/decompression programs for compressing and decompressing the voice signals in accordance with differing quality/occupancy ratios of the memory.