JPH03106673A - Audio apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable instantly obtaining words set to music heard on a CD or the radio by equipping means for sound-recognizing musical sound, words set to music and voice and converting them into data and thereafter for further converting them into letters to print out said letters. CONSTITUTION:A sound circuit 42 performs processes such as the amplification of a sound signal transmitted according to the operation of an operating part 11 and tone control and plays back and broadcasts the sound signal from speakers 5, 6. Then, when the printout of words set to music to be sent on the air is desired, it is sufficient to push the print button 71a of the operating part 71 coincidentally with the air time. Thus, sound signals from the sound circuit 42 are inputted to a sound-recognizing circuit 72, where signals of musical sound, words set to music and voice out of the sound signals are pattern-recognized. Sounds other than the words set to music and voice are distinguished and removed on the basis of the difference in their patterns. Then, the recognized data of the words set to music and voice are converted into character data and temporarily stored in a memory. On the basis of the character data stored in the memory, character fonts are read from a character generator and successively inputted to a printer part 73 to be printed out as the words set to music.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an audio device equipped with a compact disc (CD) device, a cassette tape recorder, a radio receiver, etc., and particularly to an audio device that is capable of printing out music lyrics. related to audio equipment. [Background of the Invention] When listening to music on a CD or on the radio, one often wants to know the lyrics of the music. In such cases, conventionally, one method was to search for a collection of songs, magazines, etc. that contained the lyrics.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, since music has a wide variety of genres, and the number of songs is enormous these days, it has been extremely difficult to immediately obtain the desired lyrics.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an audio device that allows users to immediately manually record the lyrics of music listened to on a CD or on the radio.

[Means to solve the problem]

For this purpose, the present invention is provided with a means for voice recognition of musical tones and lyrics, converting the data into data, converting it into characters, and printing out the data.

〔Example〕

An audio device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is a perspective view thereof. Audio device A in this example has a horizontally long box-like shape as a whole. 1 is a radio receiver installed on the right side of the top surface, 11 is an operation section thereof, 12
is its antenna. The radio receiver l has FM/A
In addition to M broadcasting and shortwave broadcasting, it is also possible to receive audio waves from television broadcasting. 2 is C installed on the front right side of device A.
D device, 21 is its operating section, 3 is a cassette tape recorder installed on the left side of the CD device 2, and 31 is its operating section. The above-mentioned radio receiver 1, CD device 2, and cassette tape recorder 3 are assembled together to form an audio equipment unit section 4. Reference numerals 5 and 6 denote speakers provided on both the left and right sides of the audio equipment unit 4, which reproduce audio signals from each part of the audio equipment unit 4 into sounds and emit sounds.

In the audio device A of this example, the printer 7 is provided to the left of the left speaker 5, that is, at the left end of the device 8. 7
Reference numeral 1 denotes an operation unit of the printer 7.

The printer 7 converts the musical tones and lyrics of the audio signals generated by each part of the audio equipment unit 4 into characters and prints them out. 8 is printed paper.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an electrical system built into audio device A. FM that has just arrived at antenna l2
Radio waves such as radio waves enter a radio reception circuit 13 in the radio receiver 1. The radio receiving circuit 13 includes an operation section 1
A switching device 41 selects, detects, and converts incoming radio waves into audio signals according to the operation of the tuning dial etc. of 1, and is switched to the radio receiver circuit 13 side by the selection operation of the radio receiver 1. is transmitted to the audio circuit 42 via.
The audio circuit 42 performs processing such as amplification and tone quality adjustment of the transmitted audio signal in accordance with the operation of the operation unit l1, and reproduces and emits sound from the speakers 5 and 6.

Now, if you wish to print out the lyrics of the music that will be broadcast next (which can be found in announcements and program guides), press the print button 71a on the operation unit 71 at the time the broadcast starts. good.

As a result, the audio signal from the audio circuit 42 is input to the audio recognition circuit 72, where the musical tone and lyrics audio signal of the audio signal is pattern-recognized. Voices other than lyric voices are identified and removed based on differences in their patterns.

The lyrics audio data recognized in this way is
It is converted to character data and temporarily stored in memory. Based on the character data stored in this memory, character fonts are read out from the character generator, which are sequentially input to the printer section 73 and printed out as lyrics.

On the other hand, in order to play a CD with the CD device 2, first, the operation section 2l is operated to perform a predetermined playback operation, and the switching device 41 is switched to the CD playback circuit 22 side. The playback circuit 22 reads the audio signal from the CD, performs playback processing on it, and transmits it to the audio circuit 42 via the switching device 41 .

If you wish to print out the lyrics of the music being played on the CD, operate the operation section 21 to designate a specific piece of music for printing, and press the print button 71a of the operation section 71. As a result, the reproduction of the designated music is started, and at the same time, the lyrics of the music are printed out from the printer 7.

It is also possible to print out the lyrics of the music on the cassette tape loaded in the cassette tape recorder 3, but the operation is the same as that for printing out a CD, so a description thereof will be omitted.

In this example, when the lyrics are in Japanese, they are printed out in Japanese, but by incorporating a translation device into the printer 7, for example, when the lyrics are in English, it can be translated into Japanese and printed out. The reverse is also possible.

It is also possible to record lyrics data on a CD or cassette tape separately from the music signal, read only the lyrics data, process the data, and print out the lyrics without audio reproduction.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to immediately print out the lyrics of radio broadcasts and music on CDs or cassette tapes, thereby increasing the entertainment value and range of use of the audio device.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an audio device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the electrical system built into the device. A...Audio device, 1...Radio receiver, 11
...Operation unit, 12...Antenna, l3...Radio receiving circuit, 2...CD device, 21...Operation unit, 22
... CD playback circuit, 3 ... Cassette tape recorder, 31 ... Operation section, 4 ... Audio equipment unit section, 4
1... Switching device, 42... Audio circuit, 5, 6...
Speaker, 7... Printer, 71... Operation unit, 71
a... Print button, 72... Voice recognition circuit, 7
3... Printer section, 8... Print paper.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) An audio device for generating musical and lyrical voices, characterized in that the audio device is equipped with means for recognizing the musical and lyrical voices, converting them into data, converting them into characters, and printing them out. (2), the printout means includes a translation means;
2. The audio device according to claim 1, wherein said musical tone and lyrics are translated and printed out.