Abstract: Provided is a sound preview device including, in an electronic musical instrument which includes a keyboard 2 and an operation button 1 to perform tone selection or a sound setting and in which tone selection or a sound setting corresponding to a key is performed in advance by pressing the operation button 1 while pressing one of the keys in the keyboard 2, a changed state recognizing unit 3 that recognizes from a pressed key a changed state of tone selection or a sound setting determined corresponding to the key in advance, a phrase storing unit 4 in which phrases of sounds by which an influence of the changed state is easily known are stored in plural numbers according to the changed state, and a sound emitting unit 5 that emits a phrase corresponding to the changed state.

Abstract: Provided is a sound preview device including, in an electronic musical instrument which includes a keyboard 2 and an operation button 1 to perform tone selection or a sound setting and in which tone selection or a sound setting corresponding to a key is performed in advance by pressing the operation button 1 while pressing one of the keys in the keyboard 2, a changed state recognizing unit 3 that recognizes from a pressed key a changed state of tone selection or a sound setting determined corresponding to the key in advance, a phrase storing unit 4 in which phrases of sounds by which an influence of the changed state is easily known are stored in plural numbers according to the changed state, and a sound emitting unit 5 that emits a phrase corresponding to the changed state.

Abstract: Provided is a voice assist device in an electronic musical instrument in which tone selection or a sound setting corresponding to a key is performed in advance by pressing the operation button 1 while pressing one of the keys in the keyboard 2, including a changed state recognizing unit 3 that recognizes from a pressed key a changed state of tone selection or a sound setting determined corresponding to the key in advance, a setting item name storing unit 4 that stores a setting item name of the tone selection or sound setting as voice data, and a sound emitting unit 5 that emits a setting item name corresponding to the changed state, and the changed state recognizing unit 3 includes a voice assist recognizing unit 6 that detects a depression for a preset time or more of the operation button 1 prior to a depression of the key.