Abstract: An electronic device which includes a user interface having a display for displaying text and a speech synthesiser including a loudspeaker, arranged to convert an input, dependent upon a text, to an audio output representative of a person reading the text. The device may delay with respect to the audio output corresponding to a portion of text the display of the portion of text. The device may also or alternatively delay with respect to the audio output corresponding to a portion of text the highlighting of the portion of text within a displayed text.

Abstract: An electronic device which comprises a speech synthesizer including a loudspeaker, arranged to convert an input dependent upon punctuated text, to an audio output representative of a human vocally reproducing the text. It also comprises a user input device for inputting instructions to navigate through text, between positions defined by punctuation identifiers of the text, to a desired position, and a controller arranged to control navigation to the desired position and provide the speech synthesizer with an input corresponding to a portion of the text from the desired position, in response to input navigation instructions.

Abstract: An electronic device (2) is disclosed which comprises a speech synthesizer (6; 16) including a loudspeaker (6), arranged to convert an input dependent upon punctuated text, to an audio output representative of a human vocally reproducing the text. It also comprises a user input device (4) for inputting instructions to navigate through text, between positions defined by punctuation identifiers of the text, to a desired position, and a controller (14) arranged to control navigation to the desired position and provide the speech synthesizer with an input corresponding to a portion of the text from the desired position, in response to input navigation instructions.