Portable wire-less communication device
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1. A portable wire-less communication device comprising:
- a plurality of keys for the input of symbols, wherein each of at least some of the keys is operable for the input of a plurality of different symbols;
a keyboard processor operable to generate text data in dependence upon the actuation of one or more of said keys by a user;
an automatic speech recogniser operable to recognise an input speech signal and to generate a recognition result; and
a controller responsive to the text data generated by said keyboard processor and responsive to said recognition result generated by said automatic speech recogniser to generate text.
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Abstract
A cellular telephone is described which includes a predictive text editor for generating text messages in response to key-presses made on an ambiguous keyboard of the cellular telephone. The text editor also includes a speech recogniser for recognising words in speech input by the user to disambiguate between possible words corresponding to key-presses made by the user on the ambiguous keyboard.
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1. A portable wire-less communication device comprising:
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a plurality of keys for the input of symbols, wherein each of at least some of the keys is operable for the input of a plurality of different symbols;
a keyboard processor operable to generate text data in dependence upon the actuation of one or more of said keys by a user;
an automatic speech recogniser operable to recognise an input speech signal and to generate a recognition result; and
a controller responsive to the text data generated by said keyboard processor and responsive to said recognition result generated by said automatic speech recogniser to generate text. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 40, 41)
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22. A portable wire-less communication device, comprising:
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a keypad having a plurality of keys for the input of symbols, wherein each of at least some of the keys is operable for the input of a plurality of different symbols;
a text message generator responsive to keypad input to generate text for a text message; and
a speech recogniser responsive to voice input to determine a spoken word;
wherein;
the text message generator is responsive to the determination of a word by the speech recogniser to include the word in the text message. - View Dependent Claims (23)
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24. A portable wire-less communication device, comprising:
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a keypad having a plurality of keys for the input of symbols, wherein each of at least some of the keys is operable for the input of a plurality of different symbols;
a text message generator responsive to keypad input to generate text for a text message; and
a speech recogniser responsive to voice input to determine a spoken word;
wherein;
the speech recogniser is operable to determine a word in dependence upon at least part of the content of the text message entered via the keypad.
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25. Apparatus for generating and sending text messages over a communication network, the apparatus comprising:
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a plurality of keys for the input of symbols, wherein the number of keys is less than the number of symbols;
a predictive text generator responsive to actuation of the keys to predict symbols intended by the user and to add the symbols to a text message, and operable to re-predict symbols in response to further key actuation and to change the symbols in the text message in accordance with the re-prediction; and
a speech recogniser operable to generate text for the text message by;
recognising a word spoken by a user, such that the recognition is performed in dependence upon at least one symbol generated by the predictive text generator;
storing in memory the voice data of the word spoken by the user; and
in response to re-prediction of a symbol by the predictive text generator, re-performing speech recognition using the stored voice data and in dependence upon the re-predicted symbol.
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26. A method of generating text on a portable wire-less communication device having a plurality of keys for the input of symbols, wherein each of at least some of the keys is operable for the input of a plurality of different symbols, the method comprising:
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generating text data in dependence upon the actuation of one or more of said keys by a user;
using an automatic speech recogniser to recognise an input speech signal to generate a recognition result; and
generating text in dependence upon text data generated by the actuation of said one or more keys by the user and in dependence upon the recognition result generated by said speech recogniser.
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28. A data processing method comprising:
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receiving text data representative of text for a plurality of words;
receiving mapping data defining a mapping between key-presses of an ambiguous keyboard and text symbols;
processing the text data and the mapping data to determine a key sequence for each word which defines the sequence of key-presses on said ambiguous keyboard which map to the text symbols corresponding to the word; and
sorting the respective text data for said plurality of words based on the key sequence determined for each word, to generate word dictionary data for use in an electronic device having such an ambiguous keyboard. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A data processing method comprising:
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receiving text data representative of text for a plurality of words;
receiving mapping data defining a mapping between key-presses of an ambiguous keyboard and text symbols;
processing the text data and the mapping data to determine a key sequence for each word which defines the sequence of key-presses on said ambiguous keyboard which map to the text symbols which correspond to the word;
receiving ASR grammar data identifying portions of the ASR grammar corresponding to each of said plurality of words; and
associating the determined key sequence for a word with the corresponding ASR grammar data for that word, to generate word dictionary data for use in an electronic device having such an ambiguous keyboard. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39)
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