Network support for wireless e-mail using speech-to-text conversion

• US 20050288926A1
• Filed: 06/25/2004
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Benco, David S., Sheen, Baoling S., Voight, Kenneth J., True, Sandra L., Overend, Kevin J.
• Application Number:
  US10/877,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20050288926A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0018 Speech coding using phonetic or linguistical decoding of the source; Reconstruction using text-to-speech synthesis

Abstract

Embodiments of the system, and method provide for network support for wireless e-mail using speech-to-text conversion. One embodiment of the method may have the steps of: entering a spoken message at the mobile terminal; sending the spoken message to the network; and converting, at the network, the spoken message to an e-mail message that is sendable to any e-mail address.

Claims

1. A method for network support for wireless e-mail using speech-to-text conversion, comprising the steps of:

entering a command at a mobile terminal to create an e-mail message;

establishing a connection from the mobile terminal to the network;

entering a spoken message at the mobile terminal;

sending the spoken message to the network;

converting, at the network, the spoken message to a text message;

entering, at the mobile terminal, an identity of at least one recipient of the text message;

determining, at the mobile terminal, at least one e-mail address respectively corresponding to the at least one recipient;

sending the e-mail address to the network; and

forming an e-mail from the text message and the at least one e-mail address.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

sending the e-mail to the at least one recipient.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

storing the text message in a memory at the network.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

upon completion of the spoken message, entering an end of message command at the mobile terminal; and

sending the end of message command to the network.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises, in the step of determining, at the mobile terminal, at least one e-mail address respectively corresponding to the at least one recipient:

finding the at least one e-mail address of the at least one recipient in an electronic address book stored in the mobile terminal.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving, at the network, an e-mail for a user of the mobile terminal;

receiving a request for e-mail from the mobile terminal;

selecting, at the network, e-mail having an e-mail address that corresponds to the mobile terminal; and

sending the selected e-mail to the mobile terminal converting, at the network, a text message in the selected e-mail to a spoken message; and

sending the spoken message to the mobile terminal.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the request includes an instruction to send at least one of a text message in the selected e-mail and a spoken message that is converted from the text message in the e-mail.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

converting, at the network, a text message in the selected e-mail to a spoken message;

sending the spoken message to the mobile terminal; and

playing the spoken message at the mobile terminal.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

sending from the network to the mobile terminal a signal that indicates that at least one e-mail has arrived for the user of the mobile terminal.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a voice command at the mobile terminal to one of delete the e-mail and save the e-mail;

sending the command from the mobile terminal to the network; and

in response to the command respectively one of deleting and saving the e-mail at the network.

11. A method for network support for wireless e-mail using speech-to-text conversion, comprising the steps of:

entering a spoken message at the mobile terminal;

sending the spoken message to the network; and

converting, at the network, the spoken message to an e-mail message that is sendable to any e-mail address.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the spoken message is converted to a text message at the network and stored at the network;

and wherein the method further comprises converting, at the network, the text message to a speech message for the e-mail, when the e-mail is retrieved by a recipient thereof.

13. A system for providing network support for wireless e-mail using speech-to-text conversion, comprising:

a network operatively connected to at least one mobile terminal;

the network having;

a call control module operatively connected to the at least one mobile terminal;

a speech/text conversion module operatively connected to the call control module; and

a memory operatively connected to the speech/text conversion module;

wherein upon entering a spoken message at the mobile terminal, and sending the spoken message to the network, the network converts the spoken message to an e-mail that is sendable to any e-mail address.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the system further comprises:

a command that is entered at a mobile terminal instructing the mobile terminal to create an e-mail message wherein a connection is established from the mobile terminal to the network;

a spoken message that is entered at the mobile terminal wherein the spoken message in sent to the network;

a text message that is converted from the spoken message at the network;

an identity of at least one recipient of the text message that is entered at the mobile terminal wherein at least one e-mail address respectively corresponding to the at least one recipient is determined at the mobile terminal and wherein the e-mail address is sent to the network; and

an e-mail formed by the network from the text message and the at least one e-mail address.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the e-mail is sent to the at least one recipient.

16. The system according to claim 14, wherein the text message is stored in the memory at the network.

17. The system according to claim 14, wherein, upon completion of the spoken message, an end of message command is entered at the mobile terminal;

and wherein the end of message command is sent to the network.

18. The system according to claim 14, wherein the mobile terminal has at least one e-mail address of the at least one recipient stored in an electronic address book in the mobile terminal.

19. The system according to claim 14, wherein the system further comprises:

an e-mail for a user of the mobile terminal, the e-mail being received at the network;

a request for e-mail received by the network from the mobile terminal;

wherein the network includes selecting, at the network, e-mail having an e-mail address that corresponds to the mobile terminal;

sending the selected e-mail to the mobile terminal;

converting, at the network, a text message in the selected e-mail to a spoken message; and

sending the spoken message to the mobile terminal.

20. The system according to claim 19, wherein, the method further comprises sending a signal is from the network to the mobile terminal, the signal indicating that at least one e-mail has arrived for the user of the mobile terminal.