METHOD OF PROVIDING VOICEMAILS TO A WIRELESS INFORMATION DEVICE
First Claim
1. A method of providing voicemail to a mobile telephone, in which a caller initiates a voice call to the mobile telephone, but that call is diverted to a voicemail server, with the caller then leaving a voice message on the voicemail server;
- the method comprising the steps of;
(a) converting the voice message to an audio file format;
(b) sending or streaming the audio file to a voice to text transcription system comprising at least one computer adapted to play back the voice message to an operator to enable the operator to intelligently transcribe the original voice message into the computer to generate a transcribed message;
(c) sending the transcribed message as an e-mail to an email address of the user of the mobile telephone and also as a text message to the mobile telephone.
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Abstract
Voicemail is received at a voicemail server and converted to an audio file format; it is then sent or streamed over a wide area network to a voice to text transcription system comprising a network of computers. One of the networked computers plays back the voice message to an operator and the operator intelligently transcribes the actual message from the original voice message by entering the corresponding text message (actually a succinct version of the original voice message, not a verbose word-for-word conversion) into the computer to generate a transcribed text message. The transcribed text message is then sent to the wireless information device from the computer. Because human operators are used instead of machine transcription, voicemails are converted accurately, intelligently, appropriately and succinctly into text messages (SMS/MMS).
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1. A method of providing voicemail to a mobile telephone, in which a caller initiates a voice call to the mobile telephone, but that call is diverted to a voicemail server, with the caller then leaving a voice message on the voicemail server;
- the method comprising the steps of;
(a) converting the voice message to an audio file format;
(b) sending or streaming the audio file to a voice to text transcription system comprising at least one computer adapted to play back the voice message to an operator to enable the operator to intelligently transcribe the original voice message into the computer to generate a transcribed message;
(c) sending the transcribed message as an e-mail to an email address of the user of the mobile telephone and also as a text message to the mobile telephone. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
- the method comprising the steps of;
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20. A system for providing voicemail to a mobile telephone, in which a caller initiates a voice call to the mobile telephone, but that call is diverted to a voicemail server, with the caller then leaving a voice message on the voicemail server;
- the system adapted to;
(a) convert the voice message to an audio file format;
b) send or stream the audio file to a voice to text transcription system comprising at least one computer adapted to play back the voice message to an operator to enable the operator to intelligently transcribe the original voice message into the computer to generate a transcribed message;
(c) send the transcribed message as an email to an email address of the user of the mobile telephone and also as a text message to the mobile telephone.
- the system adapted to;
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