Week 6:Output Devices

An output device is any piece of computer hardware equipment which converts information into human-readable form. It can be text, graphics, tactile, audio, and video.

Some of the output devices are Visual Display Units (VDU) i.e. a Monitor, Printer, Graphic Output devices, Plotters, Speakers etc. A new type of Output device is been developed these days, known as Speech synthesizer, a mechanism attached to the computer which produces verbal output sounding almost like human speeches.

Some examples of output devices are given below:

  • Monitor
  • Printer
  • Speaker
  • Headphones
  • Projector
  • Sound Card
  • Video Card