Method for arranging voice feedback to a digital wireless terminal device and corresponding terminal device, server and software to implement the method

• US 7,672,850 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2003
• Issued: 03/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Kaatrasalo, Antti
• Primary Examiner(s): Smits, Talivaldis Ivars
• Assistant Examiner(s): Baker, Matthew H
• Application Number:
  US10/448,782
• Publication Number:
  US 20030233240A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,469 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/00 Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis in musical instruments G10H

Abstract

In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for arranging voice feedback to a digital wireless terminal device, which includes a voice-assisted user interface (Voice UI), wherein the terminal device gives a voice feedback corresponding to its state. The terminal device includes memory devices (PPM) for storing the voice feedbacks. In the method, the following stages take place to arrange the voice feedback in connection with the terminal device: one or more voice feedbacks are generated, the generated voice feedbacks are converted into a digital form, the digitalized voice feedbacks are edited with chosen algorithms (ACELP) in order to reduce their file size, and the edited voice feedbacks are stored in a memory (PPM) arranged in connection with the terminal device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving one or more voice feedbacks that correspond to one or more states of a terminal device,

converting the received voice feedbacks into a digital form,

editing the digitalized voice feedbacks with at least one chosen algorithm in order to reduce their file size,

forming at least two user-profile-specific file packets of the digitalized voice feedbacks edited with the at least one chosen algorithm, where the at least two user-profile-specific file packets correspond to at least two different user groups, each user group being comprised of a plurality of terminal devices for a plurality of users,

compiling a voice feedback data packet comprised of said at least two user-profile-specific file packets,

integrating the compiled voice feedback data packet with data packets of other user interface settings into one file, and

sending at least a portion of the one file to the terminal device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the voice feedbacks are generated at the terminal device.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the voice feedbacks are received through a data communication network.

4. The method according to claim 3, where the data communication network comprises a terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA) network system and where the one file is sent to the terminal device through the TETRA network system.

5. The method according to claim 2, where the plurality of languages includes a first language and a second language, where the plurality of voice feedbacks includes first voice feedbacks for the first language and second voice feedbacks for the second language, where the one or more user-profile-specific file packets comprise a first user-profile-specific file packet for digitalized voice feedbacks for the first language and a second user-profile-specific file packet for digitalized voice feedbacks for the second language, the method further comprising selecting at least one of the first language and the second language, where the voice feedback data packet comprises at least one of the first user-profile-specific file packet and the second user-profile-specific file packet based on the selection.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the digitalized voice feedbacks are in a WAV format.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one chosen algorithm for reducing the file size of digitalized voice feedbacks is selected such that a speech codec at the terminal device can be directly utilized.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein forming said at least two user-profile-specific file packets of the digitalized voice feedbacks edited with the at least one chosen algorithm comprises:

removing header and suffix information from said digitalized voice feedbacks to obtain raw data files,

compressing said raw data files and editing them with a coder to obtain compressed raw data files,

compiling the compressed raw data files together into one compiled file packet, and

adding header information to the one compiled file packet.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one chosen algorithm comprises algebraic code excited linear predictive coding.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of the one file is sent to the terminal device for storage in post programmable memory.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein sending the at least a portion of the one file to the terminal device further comprises selecting the at least a portion of the one file based on at least one criterion.

12. The method according to claim 1, where the one or more voice feedbacks comprise a plurality of voice feedbacks for a plurality of languages.

20. A computer-readable memory, said computer-readable memory storing software, execution of the software by a device resulting in operations comprising the steps of the method of claim 1.

13. A terminal device including a voice-assisted user interface (Voice UI), wherein the terminal device is adapted to give voice feedbacks corresponding to its state and wherein the terminal device includes at least one memory device storing at least a portion of one voice feedback file, where the at least one voice feedback file comprises voice feedbacks arranged as at least two user-profile-specific file packets integrated with data packets of user interface settings, where the at least two user-profile-specific file packets correspond to at least two different user groups, each user group being comprised of a plurality of terminal devices for a plurality of users.

14. The device according to claim 13, where the at least one memory device comprises post programmable memory.

15. A device comprising instructions embodied on a memory of the device, execution of the instructions resulting in operations comprising:

receiving one or more voice feedbacks that correspond to one or more states of a terminal device,

converting the received voice feedbacks into a digital form,

editing the digitalized voice feedbacks with at least one chosen algorithms in order to reduce their file size,

forming at least two user-profile-specific file packets of the digitalized voice feedbacks edited with the at least one chosen algorithm, where the at least two user-profile-specific file packets correspond to at least two different user groups, each user group being comprised of a plurality of terminal devices for a plurality of users,

compiling a voice feedback data packet comprised of said at least two user-profile-specific file packets,

integrating the compiled voice feedback data packet with data packets of other user interface settings into one file, and

sending at least a portion of the one file to the terminal device.

16. The device according to claim 15, wherein the operation of sending the at least a portion of the one file further comprises selecting the at least a portion of the one file based on at least one criterion.

17. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving one or more voice feedbacks that correspond to one or more states of a terminal device,

means for converting the received voice feedbacks into a digital form,

means for removing header and suffix information from the digitalized voice feedbacks to obtain raw audio data files,

coder means for compressing and editing the raw audio data files to obtain compressed raw audio data files,

means for forming at least two user-profile-specific file packets of the compressed raw audio data files, where the at least two user-profile-specific file packets correspond to at least two different user groups, each user group being comprised of a plurality of terminal devices for a plurality of users,

means for compiling a voice feedback data packet comprised of said at least two user-profile-specific file packets,

means for integrating the compiled voice feedback data packet with data packets of other user interface settings into one file, and

means for sending at least a portion of the one file to the terminal device.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the coder means uses algebraic code excited linear predictive coding.

19. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the means for sending the at least a portion of the one file to the terminal device further comprises means for selecting the at least a portion of the one file based on at least one criterion.