Methods for accessing information on personal computers using voice through landline or wireless phones
First Claim
1. Method for remotely accessing the information and contents residing on personal computers through voice phone calls using landline telephones or wireless phones, said method comprising:
- physical connection between the PC and the remote user through PC telephone modems and landline telephones or wireless phones, phone lines, internet packet network using VoIP, that transfer the voice audio signal from the remote user to the audio input of the PC for speech recognition;
a speech recognition system installed on PC for recognizing incoming voice, dictating it into information retrieval commands, retrieving and sending the required information back to the remote user through speech synthesizer, or other communication means, such as fax, email, instant message, wireless SMS (short message service), voice messages, VoIP, and automatic alerts through voice phone calls.
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Abstract
This invention discloses methods and approaches for accessing information residing on ordinary PCs using voice phones calls through telephone lines; either landline telephones or wireless phones can be used. Four techniques are described in this invention to enable effective speech recognition and information retrieval based on normal PC hardware and software platform: i) natural language-based speech recognition; ii) SQL-like information retrieval commands; iii) dynamic dialog-based key content dictations; iv) dynamically generated rule grammars for speech dictations. Through software implementations, these four techniques combined will let ordinary users remotely access the information residing on their PCs by making voice phone calls. Security handling of the voice calls is also disclosed and described in this invention.
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1. Method for remotely accessing the information and contents residing on personal computers through voice phone calls using landline telephones or wireless phones, said method comprising:
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physical connection between the PC and the remote user through PC telephone modems and landline telephones or wireless phones, phone lines, internet packet network using VoIP, that transfer the voice audio signal from the remote user to the audio input of the PC for speech recognition;
a speech recognition system installed on PC for recognizing incoming voice, dictating it into information retrieval commands, retrieving and sending the required information back to the remote user through speech synthesizer, or other communication means, such as fax, email, instant message, wireless SMS (short message service), voice messages, VoIP, and automatic alerts through voice phone calls. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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