The invention discloses a method and equipment to display the speech information by application of cartoons. It is applied to the displaying technology field in communications technology and the method comprises the following steps: The audio at the communication terminal is transformed to character strings according to the communication mode at the calling. The output character strings are obtained in real time and matched to the character strings stored in the emotion rule base. If the match succeeds, a cartoon corresponding to the matched character strings is shown on the screen. The method and device provided in the invention can display the cartoons related to emotion according to their speech information at the call to make the audio chat more lively and funny.