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Apparatus for the processing of sales

  • US 20080294438A1
  • Filed: 04/17/2008
  • Published: 11/27/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for the processing of sales of articles of a product assortment to a customer, in particular store scales, comprisinga microphone device (11) for listening to a conversation between a customer and a sales person for the conversion of connected spoken words of the conversation into an electrical speech signal;

  • a speech recognition device (13) for the generation of a speech recognition result representing the words from the electrical speech signal;

    a comparator (13) for the comparison of the speech recognition result with keywords stored in a memory device (15) of the apparatus for the keyword recognition in the speech recognition result, with at least some of the stored keywords being product names which define a group of keywords; and

    a control device (13) which, on the detection of a keyword belonging to the group and/or of a permitted combination of keywords which includes a keyword belonging to the group, is configured to output a piece of information associated with the detected keyword or the detected permitted combination and available via a data source (17) or to output an offer to output the information, in particular in the form of a selection menu, by means of an output device (19) of the apparatus.

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