Speech-controlled apparatus and method for operating speech-controlled apparatus

• US 3,215,821 A
• Filed: 08/31/1959
• Issued: 11/02/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Walter H. Stenby
• Original Assignee: Walter H. Stenby
• Inventors: Stenby, Walter H.
• Application Number:
  US03/837,220
• Time in Patent Office: 2,255 Days
• US Class Current: 708/141
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence

Claims

16. A METHOD OF PERFORMING CALCULATING OPERATIONS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE HUMAN SPEECH, COMPRISING THE STEPS OF SOUNDING SEQUENCES OF AT LEAST TWO PHONETIC SOUNDS OF A LIMITED NUMBER OF PHONETIC SOUNDS, TEN OF SAID SOUND SEQUENCE REPRESENTING DIGITS AND OTHER SOUNDED SEQUENCES REPRESENTING COMMANDS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF TOTALIZING AND OTHER COUPUTING FUNCTIONS OF A CALCULATING APPARATUS, SAID LIMITED NUMIBER OF PHONETIC SOUNDS BEING LESS THAN THE NUMBER OF PHONETIC SOUNDS INCIDENT TO A LANGUAGE, EACH OHONETIC SOUND OF SAID LIMITED NUMBER BEING REPRESENTATIVE OF A GROUP OF SIMILAR PHONETIC SOUNDS, THE PHONETIC SOUNDS OF EACH SAID GROUP BEING MORE SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER THAN TO THE PHONETIC SOUNDS OF THE OTHER GROUPS SO THAT SAID REPRESENTATIVE PHONETIC SOUNDS OF SAID LIMITED NUMBER ARE PHONETICALLY MORE DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER THAN FROM THE PHONETIC SOUNDS OF THE GROUP REPRESENTED THEREBY SAND HAVE CHARAC-