Telephone apparatus with voice activated dialing function
First Claim
1. Telephone apparatus, comprising:
- first means for registering one or more predetermined numbers of data each corresponding to a telephone dial number prior to a user'"'"'s utterance;
second means for registering one or more digital speech signals each corresponding to a telephone dial number prior to said user'"'"'s utterance;
means for providing one or more telephone dial numbers;
means, coupled to said providing means, for generating a digital speech signal corresponding to a provided telephone dial number in response to said user'"'"'s utterance;
means, coupled to said generating means, for extracting a predetermined number of data corresponding to a generated digital speech signal;
means, coupled to said extracting means, for storing an extracted predetermined number of data;
means, coupled to said first registering means and said storing means, for comparing said extracted predetermined number of data to each of one or more registered predetermined numbers of data;
means, coupled to said generating means and said second registering means, for producing a speech signal associated with a registered digital speech signal for confirming whether said generated digital speech signal is substantially identical to said registered digital speech signal; and
means, coupled to the comparing means, for automatically originating a telephone call to a telephone dial number, whenever said extracted predetermined number of data is substantially identical to said registered predetermined number of data corresponding to said retrieved telephone dial number.
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Abstract
Telephone apparatus in which a call may be made in response to utterances of a user by speech recognition without manually dialing a telephone number. The telephone apparatus includes a storage device for storing a set of parameters corresponding to an expected speech signal, which are used for recognizing the user'"'"'s subsequent utterance and/or for indicating differences between the utterance and the stored signal. The telephone apparatus further includes a storage device for storing the speech signal so that the stored speech signal can be reproduced. The reproduced speech signal is used to confirm the stored speech signal. The stored speech signal may be reproduced in response to a user'"'"'s key operation when the telephone apparatus is in a confirmation mode and in response to a user'"'"'s utterance when the telephone apparatus is in a registration or voice calling mode.
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25 Claims
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1. Telephone apparatus, comprising:
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first means for registering one or more predetermined numbers of data each corresponding to a telephone dial number prior to a user'"'"'s utterance; second means for registering one or more digital speech signals each corresponding to a telephone dial number prior to said user'"'"'s utterance; means for providing one or more telephone dial numbers; means, coupled to said providing means, for generating a digital speech signal corresponding to a provided telephone dial number in response to said user'"'"'s utterance; means, coupled to said generating means, for extracting a predetermined number of data corresponding to a generated digital speech signal; means, coupled to said extracting means, for storing an extracted predetermined number of data; means, coupled to said first registering means and said storing means, for comparing said extracted predetermined number of data to each of one or more registered predetermined numbers of data; means, coupled to said generating means and said second registering means, for producing a speech signal associated with a registered digital speech signal for confirming whether said generated digital speech signal is substantially identical to said registered digital speech signal; and means, coupled to the comparing means, for automatically originating a telephone call to a telephone dial number, whenever said extracted predetermined number of data is substantially identical to said registered predetermined number of data corresponding to said retrieved telephone dial number. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. Telephone apparatus, comprising:
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first means for registering one or more predetermined number of data each corresponding to a telephone dial number prior to a user'"'"'s utterance; second means for registering one or more speech signals each corresponding to a telephone dial number prior to said user'"'"'s utterance; means for providing one or more telephone dial numbers; means, coupled to said providing means, for generating a speech signal corresponding to a provided telephone dial number in response to said user'"'"'s utterance; means, coupled to the generating means, for extracting a predetermined number of data corresponding to a generated speech signal; means, coupled to the extracting means, for storing an extracted predetermined number of data; means, coupled to said first registering means and said storing means, for comparing said extracted predetermined number of data to each of one or more registered predetermined numbers of data; means, coupled to said second registering means, for reproducing a registered speech signal; and means, coupled to the comparing means, for automatically originating a telephone call to a telephone dial number whenever said extracted predetermined number of data is substantially identical to said registered predetermined number of data corresponding to said retrieved telephone dial number. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. Telephone apparatus, comprising:
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first means for registering on or more predetermined numbers of data each corresponding to a telephone dial number prior to a user'"'"'s utterance; second means for registering one or more speech signals each corresponding to a telephone dial number prior to said user'"'"'s utterance; means for providing one or more telephone dial numbers; means for generating a speech signal corresponding to a telephone dial number in response to said user'"'"'s utterance; means, coupled to the generating means, for extracting a predetermined number of data corresponding to a generated speech signal; means, coupled to the extracting means, for storing an extracted predetermined number of data; means, coupled to the first registering means and the storing means, for comparing said extracted predetermined number of data to each of the one or more registered predetermined numbers of data; and means for automatically originating a telephone call to a telephone dial number, whenever said extracted predetermined number of data is substantially identical to said registered predetermined number of data corresponding to said telephone dial number, wherein said originating means includes means, coupled to the generating means, for storing said generated speech signal, and means, coupled to the second registering means, for reproducing said generated speech signal. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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