Method and apparatus for controlling a telephone with voice commands
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1. A method for controlling a telephone apparatus which includes:
- a control unit controlling its operation,storage means for storing telephone numbers as stored character sequences, andmeans for delivering commands given by the user to said control unit, in which the user provides a calling character sequence to said telephone apparatus to identify an intended called party, the method comprising steps of;
storing a predetermined number of character sequences in said storage means;
entering a calling character sequence upon an entry command of the user;
initiating a recognition procedure wherein, in said recognition procedure, said control unit compares said character sequence to corresponding character sequences stored in said storage means, and selects for telephone connection establishment that character sequence among the compared character sequences stored in said storage means which best matches said character sequence delivered from the user to the telephone apparatus; and
upon the presence of an error and in response to a user check command, comparing a recognized incorrect number to all numbers in said storage means, and selecting a number in said storage means that best matches the recognized incorrect number.
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Abstract
The invention includes a method and an apparatus for controlling a telephone, particularly a mobile telephone used in a cellular network. Advantageously the user interface of the telephone is voice-controlled, whereby dialling can be made without the use of hands e.g. when driving a car. In the method according to the invention, the task of a speech recognizer can be made easier using phone numbers in the phone'"'"'s memory (102), ie. on the basis of a check command given by the user the phone selects the number to be recognized from among the numbers stored in its memory, whereby also an incorrect recognition can be automatically corrected.
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33 Claims
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1. A method for controlling a telephone apparatus which includes:
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a control unit controlling its operation, storage means for storing telephone numbers as stored character sequences, and means for delivering commands given by the user to said control unit, in which the user provides a calling character sequence to said telephone apparatus to identify an intended called party, the method comprising steps of; storing a predetermined number of character sequences in said storage means; entering a calling character sequence upon an entry command of the user; initiating a recognition procedure wherein, in said recognition procedure, said control unit compares said character sequence to corresponding character sequences stored in said storage means, and selects for telephone connection establishment that character sequence among the compared character sequences stored in said storage means which best matches said character sequence delivered from the user to the telephone apparatus; and upon the presence of an error and in response to a user check command, comparing a recognized incorrect number to all numbers in said storage means, and selecting a number in said storage means that best matches the recognized incorrect number. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A telephone apparatus which includes:
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a control unit controlling its operation, storage means for storing phone numbers as character sequences, and means for delivering commands and character sequences provided by the user to said control unit wherein said telephone apparatus further comprises; means for delivering a check command from the user to said control unit, means for comparing a character sequence provided by the user to corresponding character sequences stored in said storage means as a response to said check command, and means for selecting for telephone connection establishment that character sequence among the compared character sequences stored in said storage means which best matches said character sequence delivered from the user to the telephone apparatus, and wherein, upon the occurrence of an error and in response to a command given by the user, said comparing means and said selecting means are operative to compare a recognized incorrect number to all numbers in storage means, said comparing means and selecting means being operative further to select a number in said storage means that best matches the recognized incorrect number. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method for controlling a telephone apparatus which includes:
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a control unit controlling its operation storage means for storing telephone numbers as stored character sequences, and means for delivering commands given by the user to said control unit, in which the user provides a calling character sequence to said telephone apparatus to identify an intended called party, the method comprising steps of; entering a calling character sequence upon an entry command of the user, said telephone apparatus indicating an entered calling character sequence; selecting whether to dial the intended called party using the entered calling character sequence, or to check the entered calling character sequence against the stored character sequences; and
whereinsaid telephone apparatus provides for dialing a called party by using the entered calling character sequence upon a selection of dial command, and provides for comparing the number of the entered calling character sequence to said store telephone number upon a selection of check command. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A telephone apparatus which includes:
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a control unit controlling its operation, storage means for storing phone numbers as stored character sequences, and means for delivering commands and character sequences provided by the user to said control unit; wherein said control unit is responsive to a dial command entered by the user for dialing an intended called party by use of an entered calling character sequence applied to said command delivering means, and is responsive to check a command for checking the entered calling character sequence by comparing the number of the entered calling character sequence to said stored numbers. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33)
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