USING RESULTS OF UNSTRUCTURED LANGUAGE MODEL BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION TO CONTROL A SYSTEM-LEVEL FUNCTION OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY

• US 20090030696A1
• Filed: 08/01/2008
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Vlingo Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Phillips, Michael S., Nguyen, John N., Shu, Han, Cerra, Joseph P.
• Granted Patent: US 8,838,457 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• 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 2015/223 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. 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. A function of the operating system of the mobile communication facility is controlled 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;

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

controlling a function of the operating system of the mobile communication facility based on the results.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the function is a function for storing a user preference.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the function is selected using the results generated by the speech recognition facility.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the function is selected based on inferring a function based on the content of the results generated by the speech recognition facility.

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

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

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

providing an input facility of a mobile communication facility, the input facility allowing a user to begin to record speech on the mobile communication facility;

upon user interaction with the input facility, recording speech presented by a user using a mobile communication facility resident capture 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; and

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

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the input facility includes a physical button on the mobile communications facility.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein pressing the button puts the mobile communications facility into a speech recording mode.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the generated results are delivered to an application currently running on the mobile communications facility when the button is pressed.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein the input facility includes a menu option on the mobile communication facility.

26. The method of claim 17 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.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein the user is given the opportunity to alter the words provided to the application.

28. The method of claim 17 wherein the user is given the opportunity to alter the action to be performed based on the results.

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39. 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; and

a function of an operating system of the mobile communication facility that is controlled based on the results.

46. The system of claim 39 wherein the function is selected using the results generated by the speech recognition facility.

47. The system of claim 39 wherein the function is selected by identifying an option presented on the mobile communication facility at the time the speech is recorded.

48. The system of claim 39 wherein the function is selected by prompting a user to interact with a menu on the mobile communication facility to select an input to which results generated by the speech recognition facility will be delivered.

49. The system of claim 39 wherein the function is selected based on inferring a function based on the content of the results generated by the speech recognition facility.

50. The system of claim 39 wherein the function is selected based on stating the name of the function near the beginning of recording the speech.

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