Consumer appliance having both explanatory comment and extra-linguistic signalization upon actuation thereof and reversible stepping between those two

A device having a finite set of states, comprising:

• an actuator element for changing a state of said device from a present state to a destination state upon actuation of said actuator element by a user;
• a memory including audio information corresponding to a plurality of combinations of states and actuator elements;
• a generator for generating a plurality of non-speech audio information corresponding to a plurality of combinations of states and actuator elements;
• a detection circuit for detecting said present state and said activated actuator element;
• a selection circuit, responsive to said present state and said activated actuator element, for selecting, in a first mode, audio information corresponding to at least one of said activated actuator element and said present state and, in a second mode, non-speech audio information corresponding to at least one of said activated actuator element and said present state;
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• an output circuit responsive to said selection circuit for outputting one of said audio information and said non-speech audio information to said user.