PURPOSE: To allow the user to specify accurately object opposite personal information being an object among plural sets of personal information to be retrieved in a short time and to simplify the automatic dialing using a subscriber line number included in the personal information by using a telephone directory database as a multi-medium and outputting a motion picture, a still picture, voice and video information and document information or the like included in the retrieved personal information simultaneously.

CONSTITUTION: When personal information including code information coincident with code information entered by the user is obtained as a result of retrieval, an MPU 1 gives a command of changing the input from a telephone directory database 3 to picture information and voice information to selection circuits 4,5, then the picture information and the voice information included in the obtained person information are decoded by a picture decoding circuit 9 and a voice decoding circuit 11, the decoded picture information is synthesized with character information and code information included in the above person information subject to character processing by a character generator 17 at a VRAM 16, the result is outputted from a monitor 15 and the decoded voice information is outputted through a speaker 13.