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Methods and apparatus for initiating a voice-dialing operation

  • US 6,744,860 B1
  • Filed: 12/31/1998
  • Issued: 06/01/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of performing a voice dialing operation, the method including the steps of:

  • establishing a connection between a telephony device and a network based speech recognition device located in a communications network, said telephony device being capable of coupling said user to, at most, one network based speech recognition device in response to detecting speech used to initiate a voice dialing operation, the step of establishing a connection including the steps of;

    operating the telephony device to perform speech recognition on audio signals received by the telephony device to determine if a word used to initiate a voice dialing operation was spoken; and

    in response to determining that the received audio signals include said word used to initiate a communication operation, connecting the telephony device to said network based speech recognition device;

    wherein said network based speech recognition device is an intelligent peripheral, the method further comprising the step of;

    operating the intelligent peripheral to perform a second speech recognition operation to determine at least part of a telephone number.

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