Telephone communication with silent response feature
First Claim
1. A telephone communication method comprising (a) establishing a voice telephony call between a remote entity and telephony-enabled apparatus of a user;
- (b) during the course of at least part of the call and at said user'"'"'s choice, facilitating generation of a response to voice input from said entity to the call, by carrying out speech recognition and semantic analysis on said input to generate input-dependent response options at least some of which are not expressed in said input, these response options being presented to the user through the telephony-enabled apparatus;
(c) using silent user input to the telephony-enabled apparatus to generate said response by at least selecting a said response option for use in the response; and
(d) sending the response back to said entity.
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Abstract
A telephone call may be received or made by the user of telephony-enabled apparatus in circumstances, such as during a meeting, where spoken responses by the user to what the other party to the call has said are unacceptable. A telephony method and arrangement are disclosed which permits a user to use silent input to the telephony-enabled apparatus in order to generate a response to the other party to the call. Response generation is facilitated by enabling the user to effect a selection from the content of the other party'"'"'s input, or from options derived from that input, with this selection then being used in forming the response.
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49 Claims
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1. A telephone communication method comprising
(a) establishing a voice telephony call between a remote entity and telephony-enabled apparatus of a user; -
(b) during the course of at least part of the call and at said user'"'"'s choice, facilitating generation of a response to voice input from said entity to the call, by carrying out speech recognition and semantic analysis on said input to generate input-dependent response options at least some of which are not expressed in said input, these response options being presented to the user through the telephony-enabled apparatus;
(c) using silent user input to the telephony-enabled apparatus to generate said response by at least selecting a said response option for use in the response; and
(d) sending the response back to said entity. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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19. A telephone communication arrangement for enabling a user of telephony-enabled apparatus to generate silently a response to voice input received from a remote entity during a voice telephony call involving that entity and the apparatus, the arrangement comprising:
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apparatus output functionality adapted to avoid disturbing nearby persons when presenting output to the user;
apparatus silent-input functionality for silent indication by the user of a desired selection from output of the output functionality;
response-facilitation functionality arranged at the user'"'"'s choice to facilitate, during at least a Tart of said call, generation of a response to said input from the remote entity to the call;
the response-facilitation functionality comprising means for carrying out speech recognition and analysis on said input to generate input-dependent response options at least some of which are not expressed in said input, and means for presenting these response options via said output functionality to the user; and
response generation means for generating a response to said input by using at least a selection made by the user from said response options using the silent-input functionality. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A telephone communication method comprising:
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(a) establishing a voice telephony call between a remote entity and telephony-enabled apparatus of a user;
(b) during the course of at least part of the call and at said user'"'"'s choice, facilitating generation of a response to voice input from said entity to the call, by carrying out speech recognition and analysis on said input to extract key portions, these key portions being presented to the user separately from the remainder of said input through the telephony-enabled apparatus;
(c) using silent user input to the telephony-enabled apparatus to generate said response by at least selecting a said key portion for use in the response; and
(d) sending the response to said entity. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A telephone communication arrangement for enabling a user of telephony-enabled apparatus to generate silently a response to voice input received from a remote entity during the course of a voice telephony call involving that entity and-the apparatus, the arrangement comprising:
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apparatus output functionality adapted to avoid disturbing nearby persons when presenting output to the user;
apparatus silent-input functionality for silent indication by the user of a desired selection from output of the output functionality;
response-facilitation functionality arranged at the user'"'"'s choice to facilitate, during at least a part of said call, generation of a response to said input from the remote entity to the call;
the response-facilitation functionality comprising means for carrying out speech recognition and analysis on said input to extract key portions, and means for presenting these key portions via said output functionality to the user separately from a remainder of said input; and
response generation means for generating a response to said input by using at least a selection made by the user from said key portions using the silent-input functionality. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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