Communication apparatus, communication method and program storage medium

• US 7,047,199 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2005
• Issued: 05/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kojima, Kiyonobu, Fujisawa, Naoki, Sasai, Takashi, Ooi, Junji, Kato, Yasuhiko, Fujimura, Satoshi, Yonekura, Syuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Young, Wayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): Opsasnick, Michael N.
• Application Number:
  US11/081,539
• Publication Number:
  US 20050171782A1
• Time in Patent Office: 425 Days
• Field of Search: 704/270, 704/275, 704/276
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition

Abstract

The invention provides a communication apparatus, a communication method and a program storage medium. The communication apparatus includes a word-generating means for recognizing a voice and generating a first word and a second word, which correspond to the voice, a word-collating means for collating the first word generated by the word-generating means with pieces of information on a communication destination stored in advance and outputting a specific piece of information on a communication destination corresponding to the first word, a program-activating means for confirming the fact that the second word generated by the word-generating means is a predetermined word and activating a communication program corresponding to the predetermined word, and a communication-destination-setting means for adopting the specific piece of information on a communication destination output by the word-collating means as information on a communication destination of the communication program activated by the program-activating means. In the communication apparatus, data for identifying a communication partner can be set with ease.

Claims

1. A communication method comprising:

a word-generating step of recognizing a voice and generating a first word and a second word, which correspond to said voice;

a word-collating step of collating said first word generated at said word-generating step with pieces of information relating to a destination electronic mail address stored in advance and outputting the destination electronic mail address corresponding to said first word;

a program-activating step of confirming the fact that said second word generated at said word-generating step is a predetermined word and activating an electronic mail program corresponding to said predetermined word said program-activating step including determining whether the electronic mail program is activated already and judging whether to issue a local command that is specific to controlling the electronic mail program based on whether the electronic mail program is already activated; and

a communication-destination-setting step of adopting said destination electronic mail address output at said word-collating step as a destination electronic mail address of the electronic mail program activated at said program-activating step.