USING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION FOR DELIVERING RESULTS GENERATED FROM A SPEECH RECOGNITION FACILITY USING AN UNSTRUCTURED LANGUAGE MODEL

• US 20090030697A1
• 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: Phillips, Michael S., Nguyen, John N., Shu, Han, Cerra, Joseph P.
• Application Number:
  US12/184,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20090030697A1
• 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 2015/228 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. Determining a context of the mobile communications facility at the time speech is recorded, and based on the context, delivering the generated results to a facility for performing an action on the mobile communication facility.

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;

determining a context of the mobile communications facility at the time speech is recorded; and

based on the context, delivering the generated results to a facility for performing an action on the mobile communication facility.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the facility for performing the action is an application of the mobile communications facility.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the application is an email application.

19. The method of claim 2 wherein the application is for setting an option with respect to a function of the mobile communications facility.

24. The method of claim 1 wherein the facility for performing the action is the operating system of the mobile communications facility and the action is a function of the operating system.

25. The method of claim 24 wherein the function is a function for storing a user preference.

26. The method of claim 24 wherein the function is a function for setting a volume level.

27. The method of claim 24 wherein the function is a function for selecting an alert mode.

28. The method of claim 27 wherein the alert mode is selected from the group consisting of a ring type, a ring volume, a vibration mode, and a hybrid mode.

29. The method of claim 24 wherein the function is a function for initiating a call.

30. The method of claim 24 wherein the function is a function for answering a call.

31. The method of claim 24 wherein the function is a function for turning off the mobile communication facility.

32. The method of claim 1 wherein contextual information includes at least one of the usage history of at least one application on the mobile communication facility, information from a user'"'"'s favorites list, information about the user'"'"'s address book or contact list, content of the user'"'"'s inbox, content of the user'"'"'s outbox, and information currently displayed in an application.

33. The method of claim 32 wherein the speech recognition facility selects at least one language model based at least in part on the information relating to an application.

34. The method of claim 33 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.

35. The method of claim 33 wherein the at least one selected language model is based on the usage history of the user.

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

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

4-18. -18. (canceled)

20-23. -23. (canceled)

38. 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;

context of the mobile communications facility at the time speech is recorded; and

a facility for performing an action on the mobile communication facility based on the context, wherein the results are delivered to the facility for performing an action.

39. The system of claim 38 wherein the facility for performing the action is an application of the mobile communications facility.

40-46. -46. (canceled)