Telephone device

A telephone apparatus comprising:

• a call section that carries out a call with one of a plurality of telephone apparatuses;
• a call waiting section that notifies, when there is an incoming call during a call using said call section, the user of said incoming call, holds the call in progress and connects the incoming call;
• a telephone number acquisition section that can acquire the telephone number of the telephone apparatus of the other party;
• a telephone directory information registration section that registers the telephone number associated with the information on the name;
• a caller confirmation section that searches said telephone number of said telephone directory information registration section based on said telephone number acquired by said telephone number acquisition section and confirms the caller;
• a character string speech conversion section that converts the character information on the name of said caller confirmed by said caller confirmation section to speech information;
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• a caller information notification section that notifies, when said incoming call arrives during a call, said speech information to the user from said character string speech conversion section with speech at a volume level which does not disturb the call.