Wireless speech recognition

• US 20070219802A1
• Filed: 03/17/2006
• Published: 09/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Mowatt, David, Cook, Daniel, Scholz, Oliver, Murillo, Oscar
• Granted Patent: US 7,496,693 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications

Abstract

A method of interacting with a speech recognition (SR)-enabled personal computer (PC) is provided in which a user SR profile is transferred from a wireless-enabled device to the SR-enabled PC. Interaction with SR applications, on the SR-enabled PC, is carried out by transmitting speech signals wirelessly to the SR-enabled PC. The transmitted speech signals are recognized with the help of the transferred user SR profile.

Claims

1. A method of interacting with a speech recognition (SR)-enabled personal computer (PC), the method comprising:

transferring, from a wireless-enabled device, a user SR profile to a SR-enabled PC;

interacting with a SR application, on the SR-enabled PC, by transmitting speech signals wirelessly to the SR-enabled PC; and

recognizing the transmitted speech signals with the help of the transferred user SR profile.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the SR-enabled PC is wireless-enabled and wherein transmitting the speech signals wirelessly to the SR-enabled PC is a direct transfer of the speech signals to the PC via a wireless communication link.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the wireless communication link is a Bluetooth wireless communication link.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the SR-enabled PC is non-wireless-enabled and wherein transmitting the speech signals wirelessly to the SR-enabled PC is an indirect transfer of the speech signals to the PC via a wireless adapter that is coupled to the PC, and wherein the wireless adapter receives the speech signals via a wireless communication link.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the wireless communication link is a Bluetooth wireless communication link.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless-enabled device, from which the programmable user SR profile is transferred to the SR-enabled PC, is a wireless adapter coupled non-wirelessly to the PC.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless-enabled device, from which the programmable user SR profile is transferred to the SR-enabled PC, is a headset.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the SR-enabled PC is wireless-enabled and wherein the programmable user SR profile is transferred wirelessly from the headset directly to the PC.

9. The method of claim 7 and wherein the SR-enabled PC is non-wireless-enabled and wherein the and wherein the programmable -user SR profile is transferred wirelessly to a wireless adapter, coupled non-wirelessly to the PC, which,in turn, transfers the programmable user SR profile to the PC.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein transmitting speech signals wirelessly to the SR-enabled PC comprises transmitting speech signals wirelessly form a headset to the SR-enabled PC.

11. A method of configuring a portable wireless-enabled system for interaction with a SR-enabled PC, the method comprising:

storing a programmable user SR profile in a memory of the portable wireless-enabled system;

configuring a processor of the portable wireless-enabled system to control a transfer of the user SR profile to the SR-enabled PC.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein storing a programmable user SR profile in a memory of the portable wireless-enabled system comprises storing a programmable user SR profile in a memory within a wireless headset of the portable wireless-enabled system.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein storing a programmable user SR profile in a memory of the portable wireless-enabled system comprises storing a programmable user SR profile in a memory within a wireless adaptor of the portable wireless-enabled system.

14. A method a using a portable wireless-enabled system, the method comprising:

building a draft document on a first SR-enabled PC by communicating via voice from a wireless headset of the the portable wireless-enabled system;

saving the draft document in a memory of the portable wireless-enabled system;

transferring the draft document from the memory to a second SR-enabled PC;

editing the draft document on the second SR-enabled PC by communicating via voice from the wireless headset,

wherein voice recognition is carried out on the first SR-enabled PC and the second SR-enabled PC with the help of a programmable user SR profile stored in the portable wireless-enabled system.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the programmable user SR profile is stored in the headset of the portable wireless-enabled system.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the programmable user SR profile is stored in a wireless adapter of the portable wireless-enabled system.

17. The method of claim 14 wherein saving the draft document in a memory of the portable wireless-enabled system comprises saving the draft document in a memory of a wireless adapter of the portable wireless-enabled system.

18. The method of claim 17 and further comprising connecting the wireless adapter to the first SR-enabled PC before building the draft document.

19. The method of claim 18 and further comprising connecting the wireless adapter to the second SR-enabled PC before editing the draft document.

20. The method of claim 14 wherein the voice communication is carried out via a Bluetooth network.