Speech-synthesizer timepiece

摘要

A speech-synthesizer timepiece is adapted to produce audible sounds indicative of updated time information at a desired point in time through the use of the speech synthesizing technique. To avoid the user's failure to listen to the audible sounds or to avoid the user's error in dictating the audible sounds, an advance announcement is generated which includes a monotonous sound, a simple phrase or sentence. This advance announcement is provided when the audible sounds indicative of updated time is about to develop.