Personal home voice portal
First Claim
1. A method of accessing voice services through a personal computing system comprising the steps of:
- receiving, in the personal computing system, a telephone call from a user registered with the personal computing system, wherein the user is remotely located from the personal computing system;
receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call;
speech recognizing the user spoken utterance to determine a request for a voice service;
formatting an electronic message according to the request for a voice service; and
sending the electronic message over a communications network to a remote computing system in accordance with the request for a voice service.
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Abstract
A method of accessing voice services through a personal computing system can include receiving, in the personal computing system, a telephone call from a user registered with the personal computing system, wherein the user is remotely located from the personal computing system, receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call, and speech recognizing the user spoken utterance to determine a request for a voice service. The method further can include formatting an electronic message according to the request for a voice service and sending the electronic message over a communications network to a remote computing system in accordance with the request for a voice service. Also, the method can include processing and formatting a response received from the remote computing system and playing back audio to the user over the telephone call.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of accessing voice services through a personal computing system comprising the steps of:
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receiving, in the personal computing system, a telephone call from a user registered with the personal computing system, wherein the user is remotely located from the personal computing system;
receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call;
speech recognizing the user spoken utterance to determine a request for a voice service;
formatting an electronic message according to the request for a voice service; and
sending the electronic message over a communications network to a remote computing system in accordance with the request for a voice service. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system for accessing voice services through a personal computing system comprising:
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an interface for receiving telephone calls within the personal computing system;
a speech recognition system disposed within the personal computing system for converting user utterances received over established telephone calls to text; and
a service engine configured to receive speech recognized text from said speech recognition system, identify user requests from the text, generate messages according to the user requests, and send the messages to at least one remote computing system via a communications network. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for accessing voice services through a personal computing system comprising:
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means for receiving, in the personal computing system, a telephone call from a user registered with the personal computing system, wherein the user is remotely located from the personal computing system;
means for receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call;
means for speech recognizing the user spoken utterance to determine a request for a voice service;
means for formatting an electronic message according to the request for a voice service; and
means for sending the electronic message over a communications network to a remote computing system in accordance with the request for a voice service. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A machine readable storage, having stored thereon a computer program having a plurality of code sections executable by a machine for causing the machine to perform the steps of:
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receiving, in the personal computing system, a telephone call from a user registered with the personal computing system, wherein the user is remotely located from the personal computing system;
receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call;
speech recognizing the user spoken utterance to determine a request for a voice service;
formatting an electronic message according to the request for a voice service; and
sending the electronic message over a communications network to a remote computing system in accordance with the request for a voice service. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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