Voice recognition system used in telephone apparatus

• US 4,961,212 A
• Filed: 11/03/1989
• Issued: 10/02/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Shinya, Ishii, Takaaki, Marui, Kuniyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): BROWN, THOMAS
• Application Number:
  US07/432,312
• Time in Patent Office: 333 Days
• Field of Search: 379/80, 379/74, 379/88, 379/89, 379/62, 379/52, 379/389, 379/390, 379/388, 379/63, 379/58, 379/354, 379/355, 379/356, 379/67
• US Class Current: 379/88.03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition

Abstract

A voice recognizing telephone apparatus in which the telephone apparatus recognizes a speech input and stores the telephone numbers that correspond to the speech input. When the user makes an outgoing call to another telephone apparatus by speaking the telephone number corresponding to the other telephone apparatus, the telephone number is read out from stored telephone numbers and then is dialed. The stored telephone numbers can be erased entirely or partially. During operations of storing a telephone number into the memory, the voice recognizing telephone apparatus cannot make an outgoing call or receive an incoming call.

Claims

1. A telephone apparatus having a voice activated dialing function, comprising:

transmitting means for transmitting at least a single telephone number;

receiving means for receiving incoming calls;

input means for inputting at least a single telephone number, bank designation inputs, mode designation inputs, and speech signals representing at least one user'"'"'s utterance;

memory means coupled to the input means for storing the at least single telephone number and the speech signals; and

control means responsive to the inputs from the input means for controlling the transmitting means and the memory means in one of a plurality of operational modes designated by the mode designation inputs, including;

(a) a registration mode in which the control means controls the memory means so that a speech signal corresponding to a user'"'"'s utterance is stored with a corresponding telephone number into a bank area of the memory means designated by the bank designation inputs, and controls the receiving means so that the apparatus does not respond to an incoming call received by the receiving means;

(b) a voice dialing mode in which, in response to a user'"'"'s utterance, the control means controls the memory means so as to retrieve a telephone number corresponding to the stored speech signal which is identical to a speech signal corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance and stored in a bank area of the memory means designated by the bank designation input and, in the event that the telephone number is retrieved, controls the transmitting means so as to transmit the retrieved telephone number; and

(c) a standby mode in which the apparatus responds to incoming call and user'"'"'s operations, a transition from the standby mode to one of the voice dialing mode or the registration mode being made in response to the mode designation input.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising display means for providing a display representing the bank area of the memory means designated by the bank designation input.