System and method for voice interaction with non-voice enabled web pages

• US 8,060,371 B1
• Filed: 05/09/2007
• Issued: 11/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nextel Communications (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Nextel Communications (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Choksi, Ojas T., Manroa, Arun, Schaedler, Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan; Vijay B
• Application Number:
  US11/746,189
• Time in Patent Office: 1,651 Days
• Field of Search: 704/270.1, 704270-275, 715/224
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

Systems and methods for voice interaction with non-voice enabled web pages and browsers are provided. A communication unit that does not provide for voice enabled web browsing can be provided with a hardware and/or software plug-in. The plug-in can receive non-voice enabled web pages, receive voice from a user of the communication unit and provide the voice to a speech recognition server. The plug-in receives corresponding text from the speech recognition server and provides the text to a non-voice enabled web browser to fill-in form fields with the corresponding text.

Claims

1. A method of filling-in a form field, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, a web page with at least one non-voice enabled form field, wherein the processor comprises a non-voice enabled web browser that configures the processor to process the web page and a speech recognition server that configures the processor to convert voice information to text;

receiving, by the processor, recorded voice information associated with one of the at least one non-voice enabled form field;

processing, by the speech recognition server, the recorded voice information; and

providing, by the speech recognition server to the web browser, text corresponding to the recorded voice information to fill-in the one of the at least one non-voice enabled form field.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying, by the processor, the at least one non-voice enabled form field; and

modifying an attribute of the at least one non-voice enabled form field.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the attribute of the at least one non-voice enabled form field is at least one of a font of text associated with the form field, a color of a line to visually identify the form field, a weight of the line to visually identify the form field, a color of the form field, and a symbol to visually identify the form field.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the web page is formatted using non-voice enabled hypertext markup language (HTML).

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying, by the processor, a type of the at least one non-voice enabled form field; and

providing a tag associated with the identified type of the at least one non-voice enabled form field to the speech recognition server.

6. A communication unit, comprising:

an audio input;

a transceiver; and

a processor coupled to the audio input and transceiver, the processor comprising;

audio receiving and transmitting logic that receives audio from the audio input associated with at least one non-voice enabled form field of a web page and provides it to the transceiver for transmission to a speech recognition server; and

text receiving and manipulating logic that receives text corresponding to the received audio and provides the received text to a non-voice enabled web browser to fill the at least one non-voice enabled form field.

7. The communication unit of claim 6, further comprising:

a web page parsing and field attribute modification logic configured to receive a web page and identify a form field of the web page and a type of the form field,

wherein the transceiver is further configured to transmits a tag associated with the identified type of the form field to the speech recognition server.

8. The communication unit of claim 7, wherein the web page is formatted using non-voice enabled hypertext markup language (HTML).

9. The communication unit of claim 7, wherein the web page parsing and field attribute modification logic is further configured to modify an attribute of the form field.

10. The communication unit of claim 9, wherein the attribute of the form field is at least one of a font of text associated with the form field, a color of a line to visually identify the form field, a weight of the line to visually identify the form field, a color of the form field, and a symbol to visually identify the form field.

11. The communication unit of claim 7, wherein the audio receiving and transmitting logic, the text receiving and manipulating logic, and the web page parsing and field attribute modification logic are components of a plug-in module embedded in the communication unit.

12. The communication unit of claim 11, wherein the plug-in module is a hardware module of the processor.

13. The communication unit of claim 11, wherein the plug-in module is a software module executable by the processor to control the processor.

14. The communication unit of claim 6, wherein the communication unit is a wireless communication unit.

15. The communication unit of claim 14, wherein the transceiver is configured to communicate with a cellular macro network.

16. The communication unit of claim 14, wherein a voice transport channel is setup using a push to talk signaling protocol.

17. The communication unit of claim 14, wherein a voice transport channel is setup using a session initiation protocol.