Interactive voice message retrieval
First Claim
1. A method for exchanging voice messages between a calling party and a called party comprising, in combination, the steps of:
- receiving and recording an incoming voice message from said calling a party as a speech signal recording,analyzing the voice signal content of said speech signal recording to identify boundaries subdividing said speech signal recording into segments,reproducing said speech signal recording to said called party while pausing between at least some said segments to accept and record a spoken response from said called party as a recorded speech signal response, andtransmitting a reply message including each such recorded speech signal response to said calling party.
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Abstract
A method for exchanging voice messages that may be employed in an answering machine, in wired or wireless telephone, or in an voice messaging system. An incoming voice message from a message source is received and recorded, parsed into segments, and the parsed message is played back to a listener, pausing between each of the parsed segments to accept and record a spoken response from the listener. A reply message is returned to the original message source that includes each such spoken response along with a snippet extracted from the particular segment responded to in the original message. The listener may also interrupt the playback of the voice message at any time to record a response.
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1. A method for exchanging voice messages between a calling party and a called party comprising, in combination, the steps of:
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receiving and recording an incoming voice message from said calling a party as a speech signal recording, analyzing the voice signal content of said speech signal recording to identify boundaries subdividing said speech signal recording into segments, reproducing said speech signal recording to said called party while pausing between at least some said segments to accept and record a spoken response from said called party as a recorded speech signal response, and transmitting a reply message including each such recorded speech signal response to said calling party. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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