Calling method for mobile telephones and a server and a radiocommunications terminal for implementing the method

• US 20010004589A1
• Filed: 12/15/2000
• Published: 06/21/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Guirauton, Alain, Massy, Christian
• Application Number:
  US09/736,200
• Publication Number:
  US 20010004589A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4931 Directory assistance systems

Abstract

A distributed intelligence speech recognition system is used to solve a problem of recognizing names of parties spoken by users into a mobile telephone. A very powerful speech recognition server available to a collective of users in the switching services area of a mobile telephone carrier performs said recognition or part of said recognition. The speech recognition calls are transmitted in GPRS mode to reduce the traffic time between the mobile telephone and the server.

Claims

1. A calling method for mobile telephones, wherein:

speech information representing, for example, the name of a party to be called or a command to be executed is spoken into an acoustic sensor of a mobile telephone,

a first digitized speech signal corresponding to said speech information is transmitted to a server,

the server contributes to recognition of said speech information and produces a first recognition signal,

the server transmits said first recognition signal to the mobile telephone, and

the mobile telephone interprets the first recognition signal and correspondingly dials a telephone number corresponding to the party to be called or executes the command to be executed,

in which method the first digitized speech signal or the first recognition signal is transmitted in a packet transmission mode.

2. A method according to

claim 1

, wherein the first digitized speech signal or the first recognition signal is transmitted in a connectionless packet transmission mode.

3. A method according to

claim 1

, wherein the first digitized speech signal and/or the first recognition signal is transmitted in accordance with the GPRS standard.

4. A method according to

claim 1

, wherein the server sends an acquittal signal to the mobile telephone on receiving the first digitized speech signal.

5. A method according to

claim 1

, wherein the mobile telephone sends an acquittal signal to the server on receiving the first recognition signal.

6. A method according to

claim 1

, wherein the server recognizes the first speech signal which is distributed and the first speech signal or the first recognition signal is recognized in the mobile telephone.

7. A mobile telephone including an acoustic sensor into which speech information representing, for example, the name of a party to be called or a command to be executed is spoken, means for transmitting to a server a first digitized speech signal corresponding to said speech information, means for interpreting a first recognition signal produced in return by said server and corresponding to said first digitized speech signal, means for automatically dialing a telephone number corresponding to a party to be called or for executing a command to be executed, and means for transmitting the first digitized speech signal in a packet transmission mode.

8. A telephone according to

claim 7

, wherein the packet transmission mode is a GPRS mode.

9. A server provided with means for receiving a first digitized speech signal, for recognizing speech information in corresponding relationship to said first digitized speech signal, producing a first recognition signal, and transmitting said first recognition signal to a mobile telephone, the server including means for transmitting said first recognition signal to the mobile telephone in a packet transmission mode.

10. A server according to

claim 9

, wherein the packet transmission mode is a GPRS mode.