USING AN UNSTRUCTURED LANGUAGE MODEL ASSOCIATED WITH AN APPLICATION OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITY

• US 20090030691A1
• 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: Cerra, Joseph P., Phillips, Michael S., Nguyen, John N., Shu, Han
• Application Number:
  US12/184,286
• Publication Number:
  US 20090030691A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/255
• 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

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. A speech recognition facility generates results of the recorded speech using an unstructured language model based at least in part on information relating to the recording. An application resident on the mobile communications facility is identified, wherein the resident application is capable of taking the results generated by the speech recognition facility as an input. The generated results are input to the application.

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;

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

identifying an application resident on the mobile communications facility, wherein the resident application is capable of taking the results generated by the speech recognition facility as an input; and

inputting the generated results to the application.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated results are used to generate a playlist.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the application includes using the results generated by the speech recognition facility.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the application includes identifying an application running on the mobile communication facility at the time the speech is recorded.

25. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the application includes prompting a user to interact with a menu on the mobile communication facility to select an application to which results generated by the speech recognition facility will be delivered.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the menu is generated based on words spoken by the user.

27. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the application includes inferring an application based on the content of the results generated by the speech recognition facility.

29. The method of claim 1, wherein the speech recognition facility that generates the results is located apart from the mobile communications facility.

30. The method of claim 1, wherein the speech recognition facility that generates the results is integrated with the mobile communications facility.

2-19. -19. (canceled)

21-22. -22. (canceled)

28. (canceled)

31. 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;

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

an input facility capable of identifying an application resident on the mobile communications facility and generating results to the application based on the results generated by the speech recognition facility as an input.

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

a facility for identifying an application resident on the mobile communications facility, wherein the resident application is capable of taking the results generated by the speech recognition facility as an input; and

an interface of the application for inputting the generated results to the application.

54. The system of claim 32, wherein the facility to identify the application uses the results generated by the speech recognition facility.

55. The system of claim 32, wherein the facility to identify an application further facilitates identifying an application running on the mobile communication facility at the time the speech is recorded.

56. The system of claim 32, wherein the facility to identify the application includes a user menu on the mobile communication facility for selecting an application to which results generated by the speech recognition facility will be delivered.

57. The system of claim 56, wherein the menu is generated based on words spoken by the user.

58. The system of claim 32, wherein the facility to identify the application facilitates inferring an application based on the content of the results generated by the speech recognition facility.

59. The system of claim 32, wherein the facility to identify the application uses a name of the application stated near the beginning of recording the speech.

60. The system of claim 32, wherein the speech recognition facility that generates the results is located apart from the mobile communications facility.

61. The system of claim 32, wherein the speech recognition facility that generates the results is integrated with the mobile communications facility.

33-53. -53. (canceled)