Voice Recognition Dialing For Alphabetic Phone Numbers

• US 20070286398A1
• Filed: 06/07/2006
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Walker, Keith R., Ramamoorthy, Venkatesan
• Application Number:
  US11/422,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20070286398A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/355.20
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42204 Arrangements at the exchange for service or number selection by voice at the terminal H04M1/27

Abstract

Systems, methods and media for determining a phone number from a spoken alphabetic phone number are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for determining a phone number that includes receiving spoken alphanumeric content from a user, the spoken alphanumeric content having one or more alphabetic characters, such as letters, numbers or words. The spoken alphanumeric content may include termination words or separation words in addition to alphabetic characters. The method may also include parsing the received spoken alphanumeric content to determine equivalent numbers for alphabetic characters in the alphanumeric content, such as by parsing spoken received spoken letters, numbers and/or words to determine their equivalent numbers. The method may also include determining the phone number based on the received spoken alphanumeric content and the determined equivalent numbers. Further embodiments may include dialing the determined phone number after determining the phone number.

Claims

1. A method for determining a phone number, the method comprising:

receiving spoken alphanumeric content from a user, the spoken alphanumeric content having one or more alphabetic characters;

parsing the received spoken alphanumeric content to determine equivalent numbers for alphabetic characters in the alphanumeric content; and

determining the phone number based on the received spoken alphanumeric content and the determined equivalent numbers.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising before receiving the spoken alphanumeric content, receiving a request to invoke voice dialing.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising after determining the phone number, dialing the determined phone number.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising instructing the user to re-speak the spoken alphanumeric content in response to determining that the determined phone number is incomplete.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the alphabetic characters include one or more of letters, numbers, or words, and wherein further the spoken alphanumeric content further comprises one or more of termination words or separation words in addition to one or more alphabetic characters.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein parsing the received alphanumeric content to determine equivalent numbers for alphabetic characters in the alphanumeric content comprises parsing received spoken letters or numbers to determine equivalent numbers for the spoken characters.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein parsing the received alphanumeric content to determine equivalent numbers for alphabetic characters in the alphanumeric content comprises parsing received spoken words to determine equivalent numbers for the spoken characters.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the phone number comprises confirming the determined phone number.

9. A machine-accessible medium containing instructions effective, when executing in a data processing system, to cause said data processing system to perform operations comprising:

receiving spoken alphanumeric content from a user, the spoken alphanumeric content having one or more alphabetic characters;

parsing the received spoken alphanumeric content to determine equivalent numbers for alphabetic characters in the alphanumeric content; and

determining the phone number based on the received spoken alphanumeric content and the determined equivalent numbers.

10. The machine-accessible medium of claim 9, further comprising before receiving the spoken alphanumeric content, receiving a request to invoke voice dialing.

11. The machine-accessible medium of claim 9, further comprising after determining the phone number, dialing the determined phone number.

12. The machine-accessible medium of claim 9, further comprising instructing the user to re-speak the spoken alphanumeric content in response to determining that the determined phone number is incomplete.

13. The machine-accessible medium of claim 9, wherein the alphabetic characters include one or more of letters, numbers, or words, and wherein further the spoken alphanumeric content further comprises one or more of termination words or separation words in addition to one or more alphabetic characters.

14. The machine-accessible medium of claim 9, wherein parsing the received alphanumeric content to determine equivalent numbers for alphabetic characters in the alphanumeric content comprises parsing received spoken letters or numbers to determine equivalent numbers for the spoken characters.

15. The machine-accessible medium of claim 9, wherein parsing the received alphanumeric content to determine equivalent numbers for alphabetic characters in the alphanumeric content comprises parsing received spoken words to determine equivalent numbers for the spoken characters.

16. The machine-accessible medium of claim 9, wherein determining the phone number comprises confirming the determined phone number.

17. A communication device to place phone calls over a communication network, comprising:

a voice recognition dialing system to determine a phone number, the voice recognition dialing system comprising;

a controller interface to communicate with other components of the communication device;

an alphabetic parser to receive spoken alphanumeric content having one or more alphabetic characters and to parse the received alphanumeric content to determine equivalent numbers for the alphabetic characters in the received alphanumeric content; and

wherein the alphabetic parser comprises a phone number analyzer to determine a phone number based on the received spoken alphanumeric content and the determined equivalent numbers.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the alphabetic characters include one or more of letters, numbers or words, and wherein further the spoken alphanumeric content further comprises one or more of termination words or separation words in addition to the one or more alphabetic characters.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the alphabetic parser determines equivalent numbers for spoken letters or numbers in the received alphabetic characters.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the alphabetic parser determines equivalent numbers for spoken words in the received alphabetic characters.