ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND VOICE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140207470A1
• Filed: 11/06/2013
• Published: 07/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Joo-yeong, PARK, Sang-shin
• Granted Patent: US 9,830,911 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

Apparatuses and methods related an electronic apparatus and a voice processing method thereof are provided. More particularly, the apparatuses and methods relate to an electronic apparatus capable of recognizing a user'"'"'s voice and a voice processing method thereof. An electronic apparatus includes: a voice recognizer configured to recognize a user'"'"'s voice; a storage configured to have previously stored instructions; a function executor which performs a predetermined function; and a controller configured to control the function executor to execute the function in response to the instruction in response to a user'"'"'s voice corresponding to the instruction being input, and controls the function executor to execute the function in accordance with results of an external server which analyzes a user'"'"'s voice in response to a preset dialogue selection signal and a dialogue voice for executing the function being input by a user.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a voice recognizer configured to recognize a user'"'"'s voice;

a storage configured to have previously stored instructions;

a function executor configured to perform a predetermined function; and

a controller configured to control the function executor to execute the function in response to the instruction in response to a user'"'"'s voice corresponding to the instruction being input, and controls the function executor to execute the function in accordance with results of an external server analyzing a user'"'"'s voice in response to a preset dialogue selection signal and a dialogue voice for executing the function being input by a user.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the dialogue selection signal comprises a user'"'"'s voice signal.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a user input comprising a toggle button,

wherein the dialogue selection signal is generated by the toggle button.

4. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a voice recognizer configured to recognize a user'"'"'s voice;

a storage configured to have previously stored instructions;

a function executor configured to perform a predetermined function; and

a controller configured to process a user'"'"'s voice through one of an instruction process in which the function is executed in accordance with the instruction corresponding to a user'"'"'s voice and a dialogue process in which the function is executed in accordance with results of an external server analyzing a user'"'"'s voice, based on a process selection signal input by a user, and controls the function executor to execute the function which corresponds to the processed user'"'"'s voice.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the process selection signal comprises a user'"'"'s voice signal for selecting one of the instruction process and the dialogue process.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the voice recognizer sequentially receives a user'"'"'s voice which corresponds to the process selection signal and a user'"'"'s voice for executing the function from a user.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a user input comprising a toggle button,

wherein the process selection signal is generated by the toggle button.

8. A voice processing method of an electronic apparatus comprising a storage configured to have previously stored an instruction, the method comprising:

recognizing a user'"'"'s voice;

determining whether a preset dialogue selection signal is input; and

executing a predetermined function in accordance with the results of an external server analyzing the recognized user'"'"'s voice in response to a determination that the dialogue selection signal is input, and executing the function in response to the instruction corresponding to a user'"'"'s voice in response to a determination that the dialogue selection signal is not input.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the dialogue selection signal comprises a user'"'"'s voice signal for selecting a dialogue process.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the electronic apparatus comprises a user input comprising a toggle button,

wherein the dialogue selection signal is generated by the toggle button.

11. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a function executor configured to perform a predetermined function; and

a controller configured to control the function executor to execute the function in response to instructions received in response to a user'"'"'s voice corresponding to the instruction being input, and controls the function executor to execute the function in accordance with results of an external server analyzing a user'"'"'s voice in response to a preset dialogue selection signal and a dialogue voice for executing the function being input by a user.

12. The electronic apparatus of claim 11 further comprising:

a voice recognizer configured to recognize a user'"'"'s voice.

13. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, further comprising a storage configured to have previously stored instructions.

14. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the dialogue selection signal comprises a user'"'"'s voice signal.

15. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising a user input comprising a toggle button,

wherein the dialogue selection signal is generated by the toggle button.