Communication apparatus, communication method and program storage medium

• US 20050171776A1
• Filed: 03/17/2005
• Published: 08/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kojima, Kiyonobu, Fujisawa, Naoki, Sasai, Takashi, Ooi, Junji, Kato, Yasuhiko, Fujimura, Satoshi, Yonekura, Syuji
• Granted Patent: US 7,035,806 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/251
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition

Abstract

The invention provides a communication apparatus, a communication method and a program storage medium. The communication apparatus includes a word-generating means for recognizing a voice and generating a first word and a second word, which correspond to the voice, a word-collating means for collating the first word generated by the word-generating means with pieces of information on a communication destination stored in advance and outputting a specific piece of information on a communication destination corresponding to the first word, a program-activating means for confirming the fact that the second word generated by the word-generating means is a predetermined word and activating a communication program corresponding to the predetermined word, and a communication-destination-setting means for adopting the specific piece of information on a communication destination output by the word-collating means as information on a communication destination of the communication program activated by the program-activating means. In the communication apparatus, data for identifying a communication partner can be set with ease.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a word-generating means for recognizing a voice and generating a first word and a second word, which correspond to said voice;

a word-collating means for collating said first word generated by said word-generating means with pieces of information relating to a destination electronic mail address stored in advance and outputting the destination electronic mail address corresponding to said first word;

a program-activating means for confirming the fact that said second word generated by said word-generating means is a predetermined word and activating an electronic mail program corresponding to said predetermined word; and

a communication-destination-setting means for adopting said destination electronic mail address output by said word-collating means as a destination electronic mail address of the electronic mail program activated by said program-activating means.