SPEECH RECOGNITION CONTROL OF REMOTELY CONTROLLABLE DEVICES IN A HOME NETWORK EVIRONMENT
First Claim
1. Speech unit (2) connected to a microphone (1) for generating user-network-commands according to electric signals provided by said microphone (1) to control a remotely controllable device (11) connected to said speech unit (2), characterized by a control unit (4) to send control-network-commands to said device (11) connected to said speech recognition device so that said device (11) transmits device or medium dependent vocabulary and/or grammars and corresponding user-network-commands to said speech recognition device and to receive data and messages from said device (11);
- and a memory (7b, 7d) to store said device or medium dependent vocabulary and/or grammars and corresponding user-network-commands transmitted by said remotely controllable device (11) connected to said speech recognition device.
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Abstract
Home networks low-cost digital interfaces are introduced that integrate entertainment, communication and computing electronics into consumer multimedia. Normally, these are low-cost, easy to use systems, since they allow the user to remove or add any kind of network devices with the bus being active. To improve the user interface a speech unit (2) is proposed that enables all devices (11) connected to the bus system (31) to be controlled by a single speech recognition device. The properties of this device, e.g. the vocabulary can be dynamically and actively extended by the consumer devices (11) connected to the bus system (31). The proposed technology is independent from a specific bus standard, e.g. the IEEE 1394 standard, and is well-suited for all kinds of wired or wireless home networks.
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1. Speech unit (2) connected to a microphone (1) for generating user-network-commands according to electric signals provided by said microphone (1) to control a remotely controllable device (11) connected to said speech unit (2), characterized by
a control unit (4) to send control-network-commands to said device (11) connected to said speech recognition device so that said device (11) transmits device or medium dependent vocabulary and/or grammars and corresponding user-network-commands to said speech recognition device and to receive data and messages from said device (11); - and
a memory (7b, 7d) to store said device or medium dependent vocabulary and/or grammars and corresponding user-network-commands transmitted by said remotely controllable device (11) connected to said speech recognition device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19)
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4. Speech unit (2) connected to a microphone (1) for generating user-network-commands according to electric signals provided by said microphone (1) to control a remotely controllable device (11) characterized by an interface (5, 6) connected to a network system (10) to which said remotely controllable device (11) is connected that can be controlled via said network system (10), to send generated user-network-commands via said network system (10) to said remotely controllable device (11) and to receive data and messages from said remotely controllable device (11).
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14. Remotely controllable device (11), comprising:
a control unit (12) to extract user-network-commands directed to said device (11) and to control the functionality of said remotely controllable device (11) according to said extracted user-network-commands, characterized in that said control unit (12) also extracts control-network-commands directed to said remotely controllable device (11) and, according to said extracted control-network-commands, controls the transmission of device dependent user-network-commands and corresponding vocabulary and/or grammars stored in a memory (13) of said remotely controllable device (11) useable by a speech unit (2) connected thereto to convert spoken-commands from a user into user-network-commands to control the functionality of said remotely controllable device (11). - View Dependent Claims (18)
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15. Remotely controllable device (11), comprising:
a control unit (12) to extract user-network-commands directed to said device (11) and to control the functionality of said remotely controllable device (11) according to said extracted user-network-commands, characterized in that said control unit (12) also extracts control-network-commands directed to said remotely controllable device (11) and, according to said extracted control-network-commands, controls the transmission of medium dependent user-network-commands and corresponding vocabulary and/or grammars stored on a medium accessable by said remotely controllable device (11) useable by a speech unit (2) connected thereto to convert spoken-commands from a user into user-network-commands to control the functionality of said remotely controllable device (11) in regard to said accessable medium or to control the functionality of said or another remotely controlled device (11).
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20. Method of self-initialisation of a speech unit (2) connected to a remotely controllable device (11), comprising the following steps:
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a) send a control-network-command to said remotely controllable device (11) to control said device (11) to transmit device or medium dependent user-network-commands to control said device (11) or another device (11) and the corresponding vocabulary and/or grammars;
b) receive said device or medium dependent user-network-commands and the corresponding vocabulary and/or grammars from said device (11);
c) update vocabulary and/or grammars and the corresponding user-network-commands in a memory (7). - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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