Servers for web enabled speech recognition

• US 20020165719A1
• Filed: 09/20/2001
• Published: 11/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Wang, Kuansan, Hon, Hsiao-Wuen
• Granted Patent: US 7,409,349 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/24 Speech recognition using non-acoustical features
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/40 terminals with audio html browser
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/493 Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice portals
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4936 Speech interaction details speech recognition per se G10L15/00

Abstract

A markup language for execution on a client device in a client/server system includes instructions to unify at least one of recognition-related events, GUI events and telephony events on non-display, voice input based client device and a multimodal based client for a web server interacting with each of the client devices. A recognition server for receiving data indicative of inputted data provided to a client device and an indication of a grammar to use for recognition is also provided.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium including instructions readable by a computer which, when implemented, cause the computer to handle information by performing steps comprising:

receiving data over a network indicative of input at a client device and an indication of a grammar to be used with the data indicative of the input to perform recognition; and

sending data indicative of recognition results for the data indicative of the input to a remote location on the network.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the indication provides a reference to a location of the grammar.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the indication includes a reference to a language for recognition.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the markup language comprises one of HTML, XHTML, cHTML, XML and WML.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the markup language comprises a scripting language.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the markup language comprises synchronized multimedia markup language.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the recognizer comprises a speech recognizer and the grammar relates to speech recognition.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the recognizer comprises a handwriting recognizer and the grammar relates to handwriting recognition.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the recognizer comprises a gesture recognizer and the grammar relates to gesture recognition.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the recognizer comprises a visual recognizer and the grammar relates to vision recognition.

11. A method for speech recognition in a client/server network, the method comprising:

receiving data over a network indicative of input speech and an indication of a grammar to be used with the data indicative of input to perform recognition;

processing the data using the grammar with a recognizer to obtain recognition results; and

sending the recognition results for the data indicative of the input to a remote location on the network.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the indication provides a reference to a location of the grammar.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein the indication includes a reference to a language for recognition.

14. The method of claim 11 and further comprising providing a prompt to the remote location.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein providing a prompt comprises converting text data to speech data and providing the speech data to the remote location.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 16 wherein the markup language comprises one of HTML, XHTML, cHTML, XML and WML.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 16 wherein the markup language comprises a scripting language.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 16 wherein the markup language comprises synchronized multimedia markup language.

16. A computer readable medium having a markup language for execution on a client device in a client/server system, the markup language comprising instructions to unify at least one of recognition-related events, GUI events and telephony events on non-display, voice input based client device and a multimodal based client for a web server interacting with each of the client devices.