TAGGING SPEECH RECOGNITION RESULTS BASED ON AN UNSTRUCTURED LANGUAGE MODEL FOR USE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY APPLICATION

• US 20090030688A1
• Filed: 08/01/2008
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vlingo Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Vlingo Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Gan, Doron, Thayer, Eric H., Phillips, Michael S., Nguyen, John N., Shu, Han, Cerra, Joseph P.
• Application Number:
  US12/184,512
• Publication Number:
  US 20090030688A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/243
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/183 using context dependencies, e.g. language models
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context

Abstract

Entering information into a software application resident on a mobile communication facility comprises 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, transmitting information relating to the software application to the 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 software application and the recording, tagging the results with information about the words in the results, transmitting the results and tags to the mobile communications facility, and loading the results and tags into the software application.

Claims

1. A method of entering information into a software application resident on 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;

transmitting information relating to the software application to the 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 software application and the recording;

tagging the results with information about the words in the results;

transmitting the results and tags to the mobile communications facility; and

loading the results and tags into the software application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information relating to the software application includes at least one of an identity of the application, an identity of a text box within the application, contextual information within the application, an identity of the mobile communication facility, and an identity of the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the tags include information that represents at least one of type of word, type of phrase, and type of sentence.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the tags are used by the speech recognition facility to aid in the interpretation of the input from the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the tags are used by the speech recognition facility to divide the word string into subsets, each of which are displayed to the user into separate fields on a graphical user interface.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising using user feedback to adapt the unstructured language model.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting the language model based on the nature of the application.

8. A method of entering information into a device, comprising:

recording speech presented by a user using a device 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;

tagging the results with information about the words in the results;

transmitting the results and tags to the device; and

loading the results and tags into the device.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising using information about a software application running on the device to assist the language model, wherein the information relating to the software application includes at least one of an identity of the application, an identity of a text box within the application, contextual information within the application, an identity of the mobile communication facility, and an identity of the user.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein, the tags include information at that represents least one of type of word, type of phrase, and type of sentence.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein, the tags are used by the speech recognition facility to aid in the interpretation of the input from the user.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein, the tags are used by the speech recognition facility to divide the word string into subsets, each of which are displayed to the user into separate fields on a graphical user interface.

13. The method of claim 8 further comprising using user feedback to adapt the unstructured language model.

14. The method of claim 9 further comprising selecting the language model based on the nature of the application.

15. A system of entering information into a software application resident on 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 and information relating to the software application 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 software application and the recording, and for tagging the results with information about the words in the results;

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

the software application for receiving the results and tags.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the information relating to the software application includes at least one of an identity of the application, an identity of a text box within the application, contextual information within the application, an identity of the mobile communication facility, and an identity of the user.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the tags include information that represents at least one of type of word, type of phrase, and type of sentence.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the tags are used by the speech recognition facility to aid in the interpretation of the input from the user.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the tags are used by the speech recognition facility to divide the word string into subsets, each of which are displayed to the user into separate fields on a graphical user interface.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the speech recognition facility is adapted to use user feedback to adapt the unstructured language model.

21-29. -29. (canceled)