PURPOSE: To obtain a video apparatus which enables even a person handicapped in hearing and speaking to understand contents of talking simply by viewing a screen by converting audio signals to character information and displaying the information on the screen.

CONSTITUTION: An audio circuit 6 converts the intermediate frequencies of audio to FM detection and demodulation after amplification thereof, converts the frequencies to audio signals and supplies these signals via a character generating means 11 and a speech recognizing means 12 to a finger language forming means 13. The character forming means 11 converts the audio signals to character information and the audio recognizing means 12 recognizes the contents of meanings from the audio signals and converts the contents of the meanings recognized by the finger language image forming means 13 to animation images of the finger language. The images selected by a switching means 14 are so synthesized as to be superimposed on a part of the video signals corresponding to a basic screen by a superimposing display means 10 and supplies the prescribed signals to the electrodes of an image receiving tube 5.