1. A receiver system comprising: a radio tuner for demodulating data from a radio signal; a memory for storing the demodulated data as a database; a user interface for providing a set of hierarchical menus describing the database, and for accepting selections from the set of menus; a controller for selecting data from the database in response to the accepted selections and outputting the selected data in an alphanumeric form; and a speech synthesizer for converting the selected data from alphanumeric form to an analog audio signal representing spoken words.
1. A receiver system comprising: a radio tuner for demodulating data from a radio signal; a memory for storing the demodulated data as a database; a user interface for providing a set of hierarchical menus describing the database, and for accepting selections from the set of menus; a controller for selecting data from the database in response to the accepted selections and outputting the selected data in an alphanumeric form; and a speech synthesizer for converting the selected data from alphanumeric form to an analog audio signal representing spoken words. 11. The device of claim 1, wherein the user interface includes a control for determining a speed at which the speech synthesizer outputs the analog audio signal.