1. For use in connection with home television video recording, playback, and viewing equipment, apparatus for processing an electronic signal including audio portions and video portions corresponding to audible and visible portions of the electronic signal, with said audio portions containing a spoken component related to the audible portion and with said video portions containing an auxiliary information component providing a visible representation of a respective concurrent spoken component of said electronic signal, said apparatus comprising: a video input to receive video portion of an electronic signal with said video portion containing a synchronized auxiliary information component corresponding to a visible representation of a concurrent spoken component; an audio input to receive audio portion of an electronic signal with said audio portion corresponding to said video portion auxiliary information comment; a video output by which the video portion of an electronic signal is made available to a user of the apparatus; an audio output by which the audio portion of an electronic signal is made available to a user of the apparatus; a programmed microcomputer including a data memory for receiving said auxiliary information component from said video portion; said microcomputer being programmed for analyzing said auxiliary information component in order to determine if said auxiliary information component contains undesirable words or phrases received in said memory; a switch for muting a corresponding audio portion having a concurrent spoken comment if undesirable words or phrases are detected within an auxiliary information component segment; said microcomputer being programmed for removing or replacing with another word or phrase any detected undesirable word or phrase found within said auxiliary information segment; said switch being connected to disable mute at the conclusion of receipt of the modified auxiliary information component segment; and, an on-screen display and video combining unit connected to provide a modified auxiliary information component containing signal to said video output.
1. For use in connection with home television video recording, playback, and viewing equipment, apparatus for processing an electronic signal including audio portions and video portions corresponding to audible and visible portions of the electronic signal, with said audio portions containing a spoken component related to the audible portion and with said video portions containing an auxiliary information component providing a visible representation of a respective concurrent spoken component of said electronic signal, said apparatus comprising: a video input to receive video portion of an electronic signal with said video portion containing a synchronized auxiliary information component corresponding to a visible representation of a concurrent spoken component; an audio input to receive audio portion of an electronic signal with said audio portion corresponding to said video portion auxiliary information comment; a video output by which the video portion of an electronic signal is made available to a user of the apparatus; an audio output by which the audio portion of an electronic signal is made available to a user of the apparatus; a programmed microcomputer including a data memory for receiving said auxiliary information component from said video portion; said microcomputer being programmed for analyzing said auxiliary information component in order to determine if said auxiliary information component contains undesirable words or phrases received in said memory; a switch for muting a corresponding audio portion having a concurrent spoken comment if undesirable words or phrases are detected within an auxiliary information component segment; said microcomputer being programmed for removing or replacing with another word or phrase any detected undesirable word or phrase found within said auxiliary information segment; said switch being connected to disable mute at the conclusion of receipt of the modified auxiliary information component segment; and, an on-screen display and video combining unit connected to provide a modified auxiliary information component containing signal to said video output. 6. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a computer program subroutine for displaying of said modified and/or unmodified auxiliary information component at the time an undesirable word or phrase is replaced.