The present invention provides a chat information system having a voice
recognition device for recognizing voices, a voice synthesizer, a
humanoid robot, a microphone for receiving the voices and a speaker for
pronouncing synthesized voices. The system comprises a headline sensor
capturing news from the Internet, a news database for storing the
captured news, and a conversation database including at least a general
conversation database storing a set of inquiries and responses. The
system also includes a chat engine configured to extract one or more
keywords from a user's speech that has been recognized by the voice
recognition device, to search at least one of the news database and the
conversation database with the extracted keywords and to output via the
speaker the contents that have been hit by the search.