User Profile Based Speech To Text Conversion For Visual Voice Mail

• US 20130023287A1
• Filed: 09/26/2012
• Published: 01/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shaw, Venson M., Evora, Robert Z.
• Granted Patent: US 8,509,399 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

Messages in a message system are converted from one format to another format in accordance with preferred message formats and/or conditions. Message formats can include text messages, multimedia messages, visual voicemail messages, and/or other audio/visual messages. Based on conditions such as recipient device location or velocity and a preferred message format a message can be converted into an appropriate transmission format and transmitted and/or communicated to the recipient in its appropriate format (e.g., text, multimedia, audio, etc. . . . ).

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a message on a network messaging device;

determining, on the network messaging device, a size of the message;

determining, on the network messaging device, a transmission format of the message based on a user preference associated with the size of the message;

generating a converted message on the network messaging device by converting the message to the transmission format; and

transmitting the converted message from the network messaging device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the size of the message comprises determining a temporal length of the message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the size of the message comprises determining a quantity of alphanumeric characters in the message.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining at least one of a location or a velocity of a recipient wireless communications device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein determining the transmission format of the message comprises determining the transmission format of the message based on the user preference associated with the size of the message and at least one of the location or the velocity of the recipient wireless communications device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the converted message further comprises:

determining personal communication information of the message; and

including an interactive link that highlights the personal communication information in the converted message.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein:

when the personal communication information comprises a telephone number, the telephone number is dialed when the interactive link is activated on a recipient device; and

when the personal communication information comprises an address, directions to the address are displayed when the interactive link is activated on a recipient device.

8. A network messaging device comprising:

a memory comprising computer instructions; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein, when executing the computer instructions, the processor performs operations comprising;

receiving a message;

determining a size of the message;

determining a transmission format of the message based on a user preference associated with the size of the message;

generating a converted message by converting the message to the transmission format; and

transmitting the converted message.

9. The network messaging device of claim 9, wherein the operation of determining the size of the message comprises determining a temporal length of the message.

10. The network messaging device of claim 9, wherein the operation of determining the size of the message comprises determining a quantity of alphanumeric characters in the message.

11. The network messaging device of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise determining at least one of a location or a velocity of a recipient wireless communications device.

12. The network messaging device of claim 11, wherein the operation of determining the transmission format of the message comprises determining the transmission format of the message based on the user preference associated with the size of the message and at least one of the location or the velocity of the recipient wireless communications device.

13. The network messaging device of claim 9, wherein the operation of generating the converted message further comprises:

determining personal communication information of the message; and

including an interactive link that highlights the personal communication information in the converted message.

14. The network messaging device of claim 13, wherein:

when the personal communication information comprises a telephone number, the telephone number is dialed when the interactive link is activated on a recipient device; and

when the personal communication information comprises an address, directions to the address are displayed when the interactive link is activated on the recipient device.

15. A computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising:

receiving a message;

determining a size of the message;

determining a transmission format of the message based on a user preference associated with the size of the message;

generating a converted message by converting the message to the transmission format; and

transmitting the converted message.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the operation of determining the size of the message comprises determining a temporal length of the message.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the operation of determining the size of the message comprises determining a quantity of alphanumeric characters in the message.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, further comprising the operation of determining at least one of a location or a velocity of a recipient wireless communications device.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the operation of determining the transmission format of the message comprises determining the transmission format of the message based on the user preference associated with the size of the message and at least one of the location or the velocity of the recipient wireless communications device.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the operation of generating the converted message further comprises:

determining personal communication information of the message; and

including an interactive link that highlights the personal communication information in the converted message, wherein;

when the personal communication information comprises a telephone number, the telephone number is dialed when the interactive link is activated on a recipient device; and

when the personal communication information comprises an address, directions to the address are displayed when the interactive link is activated on a recipient device.