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A method and apparatus for storing and retrieving information to and from a memory of a hand-held audio database device. The audio database device includes a graphics display provided on a hand-held housing for displaying graphical information. A microphone and a speaker are provided on the housing

A method and apparatus for storing and retrieving information to and from a memory of a hand-held audio database device. The audio database device includes a graphics display provided on a hand-held housing for displaying graphical information. A microphone and a speaker are provided on the housing to receive and broadcast audio information from and to a user, respectively. The audio database device includes a memory configured to store graphical icons and to support a hierarchical memory structure comprising categories, wherein the icons graphically represent the categories. A user-actuated navigation control is provided on the housing and permits a user to navigate the categories in the hierarchical memory structure and to select a desired category. A processor is coupled to the memory, the display, and the navigation control and effects displaying of one of the icons on the display when the user is navigating a corresponding one of the categories, and storing of the audio information in the desired category of the memory.

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1. A portable voice database device, comprising:a hand-held housing; a speaker provided on said housing; a memory configured to support an audio database for storing verbal messages, said audio database including a hierarchical storage location structure having at least two categories; a display, pr

1. A portable voice database device, comprising:a hand-held housing; a speaker provided on said housing; a memory configured to support an audio database for storing verbal messages, said audio database including a hierarchical storage location structure having at least two categories; a display, provided on said housing, to display graphical information, alphanumeric information, and icons that graphically represent distinct categories; a microphone, provided on said housing, to receive a verbal message from a user; a user-actuated navigation control panel, provided on said housing; said user-actuated navigation control panel including, a first input device to navigate a visual feedback indicator around a display area having a plurality of distinct icon categories corresponding to said hierarchical storage location structure and to select one of the displayed distinct icon categories, a second input device, outside the display area, to select directly a first category of said hierarchical storage location structure, and a third input device, outside the display area, to select directly a second category of said hierarchical storage location structure; and a processor, coupled to said memory, said display, and said user-actuated navigation control panel, to effect displaying of one of the icons on said display when navigating selecting a corresponding one of the categories of said hierarchical storage location structure, and to effect storing of the verbal message received by said microphone in the selected category within said hierarchical storage location structure of the memory.