Akira Tanimoto

Electronic musical instrument with musical information input means

Disclosed is an electronic musical instrument with musical information input keys for producing musical information. A plurality of keys are provided for generating musical information of musical notes to introduce musical tones and pitches of the musical notes into the electronic musical instrument. A memory is included within the electronic musical instrument for sequentially memorizing the musical information. A musical generator is provided for sequentially reading out the stored musical information and providing an audio music in response to the stored musical information. The electronic musical instrument may function as an attendant feature of a conventional electronic calculator and/or an electronic timepiece. In a combined electronic musical instrument and calculator, the audio music can be utilized for announcing alarm conditions such as error, premature actuations of keys, overflow, voltage drop in power supply, etc. The audio music can further be used to alarm when a predetermined time has just run in the combined electronic musical instrument and a timepiece.

Programmable musical instrument

A musical instrument comprises an input circuit for entering pitch information and duration information of a note, a counting circuit for counting the time when the input means continues to be actuated in order to fix the duration information, a memory circuit for storing the pitch information and the duration information, and an output circuit for actuating the memory circuit so as to develop the pitch information and the length information.

Intonation-varying audio output device in electronic translator

An electronic translator is capable of preparing sentences on the basis of old sentences stored in a memory and different voice data for the new sentences are outputted, the intonations depending on the position of one or more changeable words in the new sentences and the syntax of the new sentence. A voice memory is provided for sorting different voice data for the one or more words depending on the position of the one or more words in the new sentences and the syntax of the new sentences. The new sentences are voice synthesized using the different voice data to provide audible outputs having different intonations.