Even when a pitch cycle has a large fluctuation and the pitch cycle string changes abruptly, it possible to suppress the affect of the pitch cycle fluctuation and generate high-quality synthesized speech. When the internal combustion engine is started in response to a request for the driving force, the control unit controls the internal combustion engine such that ignition timing of the internal combustion engine while a first mode is selected is later than the ignition timing while a second mode is selected. In response to detecting the first gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, the device converts the unsplit keyboard into a split keyboard and moves the split keyboard away from the bottom of the display over the application content area in accordance with the first gesture. The sender may insert emoticons through the use of emoticon buttons that are icons available for choosing. The method joins trees for activated statement-after triggers to the operator tree for execution subsequent to the execution of the operator tree, the statement after trigger trees receiving rows from a temporary table that accumulates affected rows from the operator tree. A next step includes determining 310 that the MD is currently associated with an AP.