Integrated voice controlled report generating and communicating system

• US 5,168,548 A
• Filed: 05/17/1990
• Issued: 12/01/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ScanSoft, Inc. n/k/a Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Kaufman, Steven, Moser, James, Parente, Ronald N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Fleming, Michael R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Doerrler, Michelle
• Application Number:
  US07/525,079
• Time in Patent Office: 929 Days
• Field of Search: 381/41-45, 364/513.5, 358/434, 358/438, 358/440, 379/100
• US Class Current: 704/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 379/905 Fax mail
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 379/908 Multimedia

Abstract

In the reporting system disclosed herein, a speech recognizer is used to select sections of text from a report form stored in a computer and to insert recognized terms in the text thereby to generate a report text under voice control. A command interpreter, also responsive to spoken words, initiates creation of the report text and its subsequence storing, printing and transmission. The command processor is responsive to respective spoken commands to select a destination telephone number and to cause the report text to be sent to apparatus for converting report text to image data and for modulating an audio band signal with the image data for facsimile transmission over telephone lines.

Claims

1. A reporting system comprising:

speech recognition means responsive to a user'"'"'s voice;

a command interpreter responsive to said speech recognition means for selectively initiating creation of a report text in response to a respective spoken command;

a stored report form providing selectable sections, selection of sections being controllable by said speech recognition means thereby to generate a report text under voice control;

means for converting text to image data; and

means for modulating an audio band signal with image data for facsimile transmission over telephone lines, said command interpreter being operative in response to a respective spoken command to send a report text to said converting and modulating means.

2. A reporting system comprising:

speech recognition means responsive to a user'"'"'s voice;

a stored report form providing selectable sections of text and adapted to receive selectable text insertions, selections being controllable by said speech recognition means thereby to generate a report text under voice control;

a command interpreter responsive to said speech recognition means for selectively initiating creation of a report text and for storing, printing and transmitting report texts so created in response to respective spoken commands;

dialing means for dialing telephone numbers;

means for converting text to image data; and

means for modulating an audio band signal with image data for facsimile transmission over telephone lines, said command interpreter being operative in response to a respective spoken command to cause sending of a telephone number selected through said speech recognition means to said dialing means and to cause sending of generated report text to said converting means and modulating means.

3. A reporting system comprising:

speech recognition means responsive to a user'"'"'s voice and providing a plurality of Voice Action Tables (VATs) which relate trained utterances to corresponding program input data elements;

a stored report form providing selectable sections of text and adapted to receive selected text insertions, one of said VATs providing keyword recognition for selecting text sections and further ones of said VATs providing term recognition for selecting text insertions thereby to generate a report text under voice control;

a command interpreter responsive to another one of said VATs for selectively initiating creation of a report text and for storing, printing and transmitting report texts so created in response to a respective spoken command;

dialing means for dialing telephone numbers;

means for converting text to image data;

means for modulating an audio band signal with image data for facsimile transmission over telephone lines; and

a recipient VAT relating trained utterances to stored telephone numbers, said command interpreter being operative in response to a respective spoken command to cause sending of a telephone number selected through said recipient VAT to said dialing means and to cause sending of generated report text to said converting means and modulating means.