A toothbrush assembly with a sound generating function for providing excitement
and entertainment to a user and for encouraging a young child to brush his or her
teeth is provided. The toothbrush assembly has a contact-type switch and a sound
generator. The contact-type switch has a swingable contact and generates a pulse
when a power switch of the assembly is instantaneously closed for every swing of
the swingable contact according to the tooth-brushing movement of a user. The sound
generator has a counter for counting pulses from the contact-type switch and a
sound recording and play back unit for generating a voice message or musical tone
when the sum of the pulses counted by the counter reaches a predetermined value.
The sound recording and play back unit of the sound generator outputs different
voice messages or musical tones according to different predetermined values reached
by the sum of the pulses counted by the counter.