Method for configuring a user interface

• US 20040064318A1
• Filed: 06/11/2003
• Published: 04/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schneider, Tobias, Niemoeller, Meinrad
• Application Number:
  US10/450,272
• Publication Number:
  US 20040064318A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/58 including a multilanguage function

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for configuring a user interface for an electronic device for connecting it at least temporarily to a telecommunication or data network, comprising a voice-oriented user interface and/or a voice data entry device. The user interface or voice data entry device is configured via the telecommunication or data network by transferring at least parts of a vocabulary from a main unit in the telecommunication or data network to a terminal component of the user interface, which receives said parts of the vocabulary and saves them in an internal vocabulary memory.

Claims

1. A method for configuring a user interface for an electronic appliance (MS;

PC;

RC) for at least temporary connection to a telecommunication or data network (GSM;

TN, IP), particularly for a telecommunication terminal, a hand-held PC, a remote control unit or an audio or video appliance, having a voice-oriented user interface and/or a voice input device,

characterized in that

the user interface or voice input device is configured via the telecommunication or data network, with at least parts of a voice knowledge source, particularly at least parts of a vocabulary from a plurality of stored vocabularies, being transmitted from a central station (SMC, FS) in the telecommunication or data network to a terminal component and being received therein and being stored in an internal knowledge source database, particularly an internal vocabulary memory (WM;

WM′

;

WM″

).

2. The method as claimed in claim 1,

characterized in that

the knowledge source is transmitted to the terminal component in response to a request signal coming from the latter.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2,

characterized in that

the request signal is generated by the user on the basis of a terminal identifier or input of a choice of national language, and the vocabulary is transmitted and stored automatically when the choice has been input.

4. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

the transmitted vocabulary comprises national-language control words for operating the appliance, particularly for visual

menu guidance and/or voice control and/or voice synthesis.

5. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

the transmitted vocabulary comprises a national-language set of names of persons and/or place names.

6. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

the transmitted vocabulary comprises a national-language basic vocabulary of colloquial language and/or of a technical language.

7. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

the transmitted knowledge source comprises a neural network or Hidden Markov Model prepared in national language.

8. The method as claimed in one of the preceding claims,

characterized in that

transmission of the voice knowledge source or voice knowledge sources is organized as an independent service in the telecommunication or data network (GSM;

TN, IP).

9. An electronic appliance, particularly a telecommunication terminal (MS), hand-held PC (PC), remote control unit (RC), audio appliance or video appliance, having a user interface which is configured using a method as claimed in one of the preceding claims.

10. The electronic appliance as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that the user interface has voice control and/or means for voice input of text.

11. The electronic appliance as claimed in claim 8 or 9,

characterized in that

the user interface has a visual display device for displaying words or for displaying acronyms and/or graphical symbols accentuated in national language or nationally.

12. A system for carrying out the method as claimed in one of claims 1 to 8,

characterized by

a server (NS;

FS) in the telecommunication or data network (GSM;

TN, IP) with storage means (DB1 to DB3;

DB1′

to DB3′

;

DB1″

to DB3″

) for centrally storing the voice knowledge source or voice knowledge sources and transmission means for transmission thereof to the electronic appliance (MS;

PC;

RC).