MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING VOICE THEREOF

• US 20140006027A1
• Filed: 06/21/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KIM, Juhee, LEE, Joonyup, CHOI, Jungkyu, LEE, Hyunseob
• Granted Patent: US 9,147,395 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/246
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/32 Multiple recognisers used in sequence or in parallel; Score combination systems therefor, e.g. voting systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and a voice recognition method thereof. The voice recognition method may include receiving a user'"'"'s voice; providing the received voice to a first voice recognition engine provided in the server and a second voice recognition engine provided in the mobile terminal; acquiring first voice recognition data as a result of recognizing the received voice by the first voice recognition engine; acquiring second voice recognition data as a result of recognizing the received voice by the second voice recognition engine; estimating a function corresponding to the user'"'"'s intention based on at least one of the first and the second voice recognition data; calculating a similarity between the first and the second voice recognition data when personal information is required for the estimated function; and selecting either one of the first and the second voice recognition data based on the calculated similarity.

Claims

1. A voice recognition method of a mobile terminal in connection with a server, the method comprising:

receiving a user'"'"'s voice;

providing the received voice to a first voice recognition engine provided in the server and a second voice recognition engine provided in the mobile terminal;

acquiring first voice recognition data as a result of recognizing the received voice by the first voice recognition engine;

acquiring second voice recognition data as a result of recognizing the received voice by the second voice recognition engine;

estimating a function corresponding to the user'"'"'s intention based on at least one of the first and the second voice recognition data;

calculating a similarity between the first and the second voice recognition is data when personal information is required for the estimated function; and

selecting either one of the first and the second voice recognition data based on the calculated similarity.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

ignoring the second voice recognition data when personal information is not required for the estimated function.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said acquiring the first voice recognition data comprises:

transmitting a request signal for requesting the first voice recognition data to the server; and

receiving the first voice recognition data from the server in response to the request signal.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

obtaining the status information of a network connected between the server and the mobile terminal; and

blocking the reception of the first voice recognition data based on the status information of the network.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

executing the estimated function using the second voice recognition data when the reception of the first voice recognition data is blocked.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a menu button for executing the personal information protection function; and

blocking the received voice from being provided to the first voice recognition engine when the personal information protection function is executed in response to a touch input to the menu button.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

executing the estimated function using the selected either one voice recognition data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said acquiring the second voice recognition data comprises:

recognizing the received voice with reference to a database for the personal information.

9. A mobile terminal in connection with a server, comprising:

a microphone configured to receive a user'"'"'s voice;

a communication unit configured to transmit the received voice to the server and receive first voice recognition data generated as a result of recognizing the received voice by a first voice recognition engine provided in the server;

a second voice recognition engine configured to generate second voice recognition data as a result of recognizing the received voice; and

a controller configured to estimate a function corresponding to the user'"'"'s intention based on at least one of the first and the second voice recognition data, and calculate a similarity between the first and the second voice recognition data when personal information is required for the estimated function, and select either one of the first and the second voice recognition data based on the calculated similarity.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller ignores the second voice recognition data when personal information is not required for the estimated function.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller obtains the status information of a network connected between the server and the mobile terminal, and blocks the reception of the first voice recognition data based on the status information of the network.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller executes the estimated function using the second voice recognition data when the reception of the first voice recognition data is blocked.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 9, further comprising:

a display unit configured to display a menu button for executing the personal information protection function.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller blocks the received voice from being provided to the first voice recognition engine when the personal information protection function is executed in response to a touch input to is the menu button.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller executes the estimated function using the selected either one voice recognition data.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the second voice recognition engine recognizes the received voice with reference to a database for the personal information.