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Language independent and voice operated information management system

  • US 6,711,543 B2
  • Filed: 05/30/2002
  • Issued: 03/23/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A voice operated portable information management system that is substantially language independent and capable of supporting a substantially unlimited vocabulary, including:

  • an input transducer for receiving a user'"'"'s speech;

    an output transducer for outputting sound including speech;

    a speech processing system coupled to the input and output transducers and including means for;

    generating and storing compressed speech data corresponding to a user'"'"'s speech received through the input transducer;

    comparing the stored speech data;

    re-synthesizing the stored speech data for output as speech through the output transducer;

    providing an audible user interface including a speech assistant for providing instructions in the user'"'"'s language;

    storing user-specific compressed speech data, including commands, received in response to prompts from the speech assistant for purposes of adapting the system to the user'"'"'s speech;

    identifying memo management commands spoken by the user, and storing and organizing compressed speech data as a function of the identified commands;

    identifying memo retrieval commands and search utterances spoken by the user, performing a best-match search comparing the search utterances to all or specified parts of the stored speech data, building a most likely candidate list of stored speech data, and outputting the identified stored speech data as a function of the commands; and

    identifying memo edit commands spoken by the user, and editing the identified stored speech data as a function of the commands.

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