TRANSMITTING SIGNAL QUALITY INFORMATION IN MOBILE DICTATION APPLICATION

• US 20110054897A1
• Filed: 08/27/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• 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.
• Application Number:
  US12/870,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20110054897A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/20 Speech recognition techniques specially adapted for robustness in adverse environments, e.g. in noise, of stress induced speech G10L21/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications

Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for transmitting signal quality information when converting voice to text on a mobile communication facility comprising capturing speech presented by a user using a resident capture facility on the mobile communication facility; transmitting at least a portion of the captured speech as data through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility; generating speech-to-text results for the captured speech utilizing the speech recognition facility; transmitting the text results from the speech recognition facility to the mobile communications facility, including text from the speech-to-text results and information on signal quality, such information including at least one of signal-to-noise ratio, clipping, and energy; and entering the text results into a text field on the mobile communications facility.

Claims

1. A method of converting voice to text on a mobile communication facility comprising:

capturing speech presented by a user using a resident capture facility on the mobile communication facility;

transmitting at least a portion of the captured speech as data through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility;

generating speech-to-text results for the captured speech utilizing the speech recognition facility;

transmitting the text results from the speech recognition facility to the mobile communications facility, including text from the speech-to-text results and information on signal quality, such information including at least one of signal-to-noise ratio, clipping, and energy; and

entering the text results into a text field on the mobile communications facility.