USING RESULTS OF UNSTRUCTURED LANGUAGE MODEL BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION TO PERFORM AN ACTION ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY

• US 20080312934A1
• Filed: 03/07/2008
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vlingo Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Vlingo Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Phillips, Michael S., Nguyen, John N., Shu, Han, Cerra, Joseph P.
• Application Number:
  US12/044,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20080312934A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

A user may control a mobile communication facility through recognized speech provided to the mobile communication facility. Speech that is recorded by a user using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility is transmitted through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility. The speech recognition facility generates results using an unstructured language model based at least in part on information relating to the recording. The results are transmitted to the mobile communications facility where an action is performed on the mobile communication facility based on the results.

Claims

1. A method of allowing a user to control a mobile communication facility comprising:

recording speech presented by a user using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility;

transmitting the recording through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility;

generating results utilizing the speech recognition facility using an unstructured language model based at least in part on the information relating to the recording;

transmitting the results to the mobile communications facility; and

performing an action on the mobile communication facility based on the results.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein, the performing an action includes at least one of;

placing a phone call, answering a phone call, entering text, sending a text message, sending an email message, starting an application resident on the mobile communication facility, providing an input to an application resident on the mobile communication facility, changing an option on the mobile communication facility, setting an option on the mobile communication facility, adjusting a setting on the mobile communication facility, interacting with content on the mobile communication facility, and searching for content on the mobile communication facility.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein, the performing an action on the mobile communication facility based on results includes providing the words the user spoke to an application which will perform the action.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the user is given the opportunity to alter the words provided to the application.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the user is given the opportunity to alter the action to be performed based on the results.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein a first step of performing the action is to provide a display to the user describing the action to be performed and the words to be used in performing this action.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the user is given the opportunity to alter the words to be used in performing the action.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein the user is given the opportunity to alter the application to which the words will be provided.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the speech recognition facility selects at least one language model based at least in part on the information relating to an application.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one selected language model is at least one of a general language model for messages, a general language model for names, a general language model for phone numbers, a general language model for email addresses, a language model for the user'"'"'s address book or contact list, a language model for phone commands, and a language model for likely messages from the user.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one selected language model is based on the usage history of the user.

8. (canceled)

10-12. -12. (canceled)

16. A system for allowing a user to control a mobile communication facility comprising:

a mobile communication facility resident capture facility for recording speech presented by a user;

a wireless communication facility for transmitting the recording to a speech recognition facility;

the speech recognition facility for generating results using an unstructured language model based at least in part on the information relating to the recording;

the wireless communication facility further for transmitting the results to the mobile communications facility; and

an action performed on the mobile communication facility based on the results.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein, an action performed on the mobile communication facility based on results includes providing the words the user spoke to an application which will perform the action.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the user is given the opportunity to alter the words provided to the application.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the user is given the opportunity to alter the action to be performed based on the results.

23. The system of claim 17, wherein the user is given the opportunity to alter the application to which the words will be provided.

27. The system of claim 16, wherein the speech recognition facility selects at least one language model based at least in part on the information relating to an application.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein the at least one selected language model is at least one of a general language model for messages, a general language model for names, a general language model for phone numbers, a general language model for email addresses, a language model for the user'"'"'s address book or contact list, a language model for phone commands, and a language model for likely messages from the user.

29. The system of claim 27, wherein the at least one selected language model is based on the usage history of the user.

20-22. -22. (canceled)

24-26. -26. (canceled)

30. A system, comprising:

a mobile communication device capable of recording speech and running a resident software module;

a speech recognition facility remote from a mobile communication facility;

a communications facility for transmitting recorded speech and information relating to the software module to the speech recognition facility;

wherein the speech recognition facility generates results by processing the recorded speech using an unstructured language model and performs action on the mobile communication facility based on the results.