Voice actuated dialing apparatus

• US 4,928,302 A
• Filed: 11/01/1988
• Issued: 05/22/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Kaneuchi, Kunihiro, Aizawa, Hiroshi, Ariyoshi, Takashi, Yasuda, Seigou, Nakatani, Tomofumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Thomas W.
• Application Number:
  US07/265,766
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 379/88, 379/89, 379/355, 379/354, 379/357, 379/58, 379/59, 379/63, 379/216, 379/209, 381/42, 381/43
• US Class Current: 379/88.03
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27 Devices whereby a plurality of signals may be stored simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition

Abstract

A voice actuated dialing apparatus has a feature extraction part for extracting a feature of an input data, a storage for storing registered standard patterns and corresponding telephone numbers of destination subscribers, a pattern matching part for comparing a standard pattern of the feature extracted by the feature extracting part with the registered standard patterns so as to recognize a predetermined one of the registered standard patterns which matches the standard pattern of the extracted feature, a speech synthesis part for outputting a speech corresponding to the predetermined standard pattern read out from the storage for confirmation of a result of the recognition, and a dialing circuit for dialing to a predetermined one of the registered telephone numbers corresponding to the predetermined standard pattern in a voice-dialing mode.

Claims

1. A voice actuated dialing apparatus comprising:

input/output means for inputting and outputting data;

feature extraction means for extracting a feature of input data received through said input/output means;

storage means for storing standard patterns and corresponding telephone numbers of destination subscribers as registered data;

pattern matching means for comparing a standard pattern of the feature extracted by said feature extraction means with the standard patterns stored in said storage means so as to recognize a predetermined one of the stored standard patterns which matches the standard pattern of the extracted feature;

speech synthesis means for outputting through said input/output means a speech corresponding to said predetermined stored standard pattern read-out from said storage means so as to confirm a result of the recognition made in said pattern matching means;

dialing means for dialing of a predetermined one of the telephone numbers stored in said storage means and corresponding to said predetermined standard pattern in a voice-dialing mode; and

control means for controlling operation sequences of said feature extraction means, said storage means, said pattern matching means, said speech synthesis means and said dialing means;

said control means successively outputting to said input/output means at least a part of the registered data stored in said storage means in response to a search instruction received from said input/output means designating the part to be successively outputted;

said pattern matching means having a preliminary selection part and a main selection part, said preliminary selection part in response to the search instruction comparing a certain portion of the standard pattern of the feature extracted by said feature extraction means with corresponding portions of the standard patterns stored in said storage means when the search instruction accompanies a subject of search so as to select specific standard patterns having a certain similarity to said certain portion, said main selection part comparing the standard pattern of the feature extracted by said feature extraction means with only said specific standard patterns so as to recognize the predetermined one of the specific standard patterns which mates the standard pattern of the extracted feature.

2. A voice actuated dialing apparatus as claimed in claim 1 in which said control means successively outputs to said input/output means only the specific standard patterns selected by said preliminary selection part in response to a search instruction received from said input/output means designating a part of the registered data to be successively outputted.

3. A voice actuated dialing apparatus as claimed in claim 2 in which said specific standard patterns are successively outputted to said input/output means in a sequence dependent on a similarity to the standard pattern of the feature extracted by said feature extraction means.

4. A voice actuated dialing apparatus comprising:

input/output means for inputting and outputting data;

feature extraction means for extracting a feature of input data received through said input/output means;

storage means for storing standard patterns and corresponding telephone numbers of destination subscribers as registered data and for storing a last dialed telephone number;

pattern matching means for comparing a standard pattern of the feature extracted by said feature extraction means with the standard patterns stored in said storage means so as to recognize a predetermined one of the stored standard patterns which matches the standard pattern of the extracted feature;

speech synthesis means for outputting through said input/output means a speech corresponding to said predetermined stored standard pattern read out from said storage means so as to confirm a result of the recognition made in said pattern matching means;

dialing means for dialing of a predetermined one of the telephone numbers stored in said storage means and corresponding to said predetermined standard pattern in a voice-dialing mode; and

control means for controlling operation sequences of said feature extraction means, said storage means, said pattern matching means, said speech synthesis means and said dialing means,

said control means controlling said storage means to store said last dialed telephone number in said storage means as registered data in response to a register instruction received from said input/output means, said register instruction accompanying a standard pattern which corresponds to said last dialed telephone number and is entered from said input/output means through said feature extraction means.

5. A voice actuated dialing apparatus comprising:

input/output means for inputting and outputting data;

feature extraction means for extracting a feature of input data received through said input/output means;

storage means for storing standard patterns and corresponding telephone numbers of destination subscribers as registered data;

pattern matching means for comparing a standard pattern of the feature extracted by said feature extraction means with the standard pattern stored in said storage means so as to recognize a predetermined one of the stored standard patterns which matches the standard pattern of the extracted feature;

speech synthesis means for outputting through said input/output means a speech corresponding to said predetermined stored standard pattern read-out from said storage means so as to confirm a result of the recognition made in said pattern matching means;

dialing means for dialing of a predetermined one of the telephone numbers stored in said storage means and corresponding to said predetermined standard pattern in a voice-dialing mode;

area code editing means for editing an area code of the telephone numbers stored in said storage means; and

control means for controlling operation sequences of said feature extraction means, said storage means, said pattern matching means, said speech synthesis means, said dialing means and said area code editing means;

said control means controlling said area code editing means to delete and/or renew at least an area code of a specific telephone number stored in said storage means in response to an edit instruction received from said input/output means;

said control means controlling said area code editing means to delete the area code from all of the stored telephone numbers having a predetermined area code in response to an edit instruction instructing a deletion of said predetermined area code.

6. A voice actuated dialing apparatus as claimed in claim 5 in which said control means controls said area code editing means to renew the area code of all of the stored telephone numbers having a predetermined area code in response to an edit instruction instructing a renewal of said predetermined area code.

7. A voice actuated dialing apparatus as claimed in claim 5 in which said control means controls said area code editing means to add the area code to all of the stored telephone numbers having no area code in response to an edit instruction instructing a renewal of the telephone numbers having no area code.

8. A voice actuated dialing apparatus comprising:

input/output means for inputting and outputting data;

feature extraction means for extracting a feature of input data received through said input/output means;

storage means for storing standard patterns and corresponding telephone numbers of destination subscribers as registered data and for storing a last dialed telephone number;

pattern matching means for comparing a standard pattern of the feature extracted by said feature extraction means with the standard patterns stored in said storage means so as to recognize a predetermined one of the stored standard patterns which matches the standard pattern of the extracted feature;

speech synthesis means for outputting through said input/output means a speech corresponding to said predetermined stored standard pattern read-out from said storage means so as to confirm a result of the recognition made in said pattern matching means;

dialing means for dialing of a predetermined one of the telephone numbers stored in said storage means and corresponding to said predetermined standard pattern in a voicedialing mode;

control means for controlling operation sequences of said feature extraction means, said storage means, said pattern matching means, said speech synthesis means and said dialing means;

said control means having means for detecting whether or not said last dialed telephone number is already stored in said storage means as registered data;

said control means controlling said storage means to store said last dialed telephone number in said storage means as registered data in response to a register instruction received from said input/output means only when said last dialed telephone number is not stored in said storage means as registered data as a result of the detection, said register instruction accompanying a standard pattern which corresponds to said last dialed telephone number and is entered from said input/output means through said feature extraction means.

9. A voice actuated dialing apparatus as claimed in claim 8 in which said control means has means for outputting a guidance to said input/output means to seek a register instruction which instructs said control means to register said last dialed telephone number as registered data only when said last dialed telephone number is not stored in said storage means as registered data as a result of the detection.

10. A voice actuated dialing apparatus comprising:

input/output means for inputting and outputting data;

feature extraction means for extracting a feature of input data received through said input/output means;

storage means for storing standard patterns and corresponding telephone numbers of destination subscribers as registered data and for storing a last dialed telephone number;

pattern matching means for comparing a standard pattern of the feature extracted by said feature extraction means with the standard patterns stored in said storage means so as to recognize a predetermined one of the stored standard patterns which matches the standard pattern of the extracted feature;

speech synthesis means for outputting through said input/output means a speech corresponding to said predetermined stored standard pattern read-out from said storage means so as to confirm a result of the recognition made in said pattern matching means;

dialing means for dialing of a predetermined one of the telephone numbers stored in said storage means and corresponding to said predetermined standard pattern in a voice-dialing mode; and

control means for controlling operation sequences of said feature extraction means, said storage means, said pattern matching means, said speech synthesis means and said dialing means;

said control means controlling said dialing means to redial said last dialed telephone number stored in said storage means in response to a redial instruction;

said control means having means for detecting whether or not a standard pattern of said last dialed telephone number is stored in said storage means, said control means outputting the standard pattern of said last dialed telephone number to said input/output means so as to control said dialing means to dial said predetermined telephone number only when a confirmation is received from said input/output means.

11. A voice actuated dialing apparatus as claimed in claim 10 in which said input/output means has a handset, a keyboard and a display part, and said control means outputs the standard pattern of said last dialed telephone number to at least said handset.