POSTING TO SOCIAL NETWORKS BY VOICE

• US 20120201362A1
• Filed: 02/03/2012
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Singh, Ujjwal, Crossan, Steve
• Application Number:
  US13/365,507
• Publication Number:
  US 20120201362A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/88.01
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for generating and posting messages to social networks based on voice input. One example method includes receiving an audio signal that corresponds to spoken content, generating one or more representations of the spoken content, and causing the one or more representations of the spoken content to be posted to a social network.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving an audio signal that corresponds to spoken content;

generating one or more representations of the spoken content; and

causing the one or more representations of the spoken content to be posted to a social network.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising:

performing speech recognition on the audio signal to generate a textual representation of the spoken content,

wherein posting a representation of the spoken content comprises posting the textual representation of the spoken content.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising:

generating a hyperlink to the audio signal,

wherein posting a representation of the spoken content comprises posting the hyperlink to the audio signal.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising:

establishing a telephone connection;

detecting, via the telephone connection, sounds that comprise the spoken content; and

encoding the sounds into the audio signal.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more representations are posted to a message feed or profile page on the social network.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more representations of the spoken content are automatically posted to the social network by an automated message posting system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the one or more representations of the spoken content comprises converting the spoken content to text.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the one or more representations of the spoken content comprises enhancing the audio characteristics of the audio signal.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the one or more representations of the spoken content comprises filtering the spoken content.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein filtering the spoken content comprises detecting duplicate content or blacklisted content, and filtering the duplicate content or blacklisted content.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the one or more representations of the spoken content comprises deleting one or more portions of the spoken content.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the one or more representations of the spoken content comprises highlighting the representation of the spoken content.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the one or more representations of the spoken content comprises archiving the audio signal.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the one or more representations of the spoken content comprises generating a reference to the audio signal.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the reference comprises a hyperlink.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the one or more representations of the spoken content comprises determining a quality of the spoken content.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the one or more representations of the spoken content comprises selecting a forum, forums, page or pages to post the representation.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio signal is received over a telephone network.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation of the spoken content is posted using one or more computers.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the representation is generated using an automated speech recognition (ASR) engine.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing an interface, by the social network,

wherein the audio signal is received though the interface that is provided by the social network.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio signal is received over a computer network.

23. The method of claim 1, comprising:

transmitting an audio signal that corresponds to different content that has been posted to the social network.

24. A system comprising:

one or more computers; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

establishing a telephone connection;

detecting an utterance that is spoken over the telephone connection;

encoding the utterance;

generating a hyperlink to the encoded utterance;

detecting a telephone keypad selection;

selecting a social network feed based on the telephone keypad selection; and

posting the hyperlink on the selected feed.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the hyperlink is posted to selected feed only.

26. The system of claim 24, comprising:

determining a telephone number associated with a telephone connection,

wherein the forum is further selected based on the telephone number.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein the telephone number is the telephone number associated with a caller.

28. The system of claim 26, wherein the telephone number is the telephone number associated with a callee.

29. The system of claim 24, wherein the utterance is received over a network that is not a computer network.

30. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by a data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

storing an audio recording of a caller;

generating data associated with the audio recording, wherein the data comprises a hyperlink to the stored audio recording, or an automatically generated transcription of the audio recording; and

posting the data to a social network profile page or news feed.