Language configuration of a user interface

• US 8,069,030 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2004
• Issued: 11/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Iso-Sipilä, Juha, Viikki, Olli
• Primary Examiner(s): COLUCCI, MICHAEL C
• Application Number:
  US10/580,378
• Publication Number:
  US 20070073530A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,546 Days
• Field of Search: 704/251, 704/270.1, 704/3, 704/277, 704/10, 704/2, 704/260, 704/8, 704/9, 704/203, 379/67.1, 379/88.06, 455/433, 455/456.1
• US Class Current: 704/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2061 Language aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/58 including a multilanguage function
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42204 Arrangements at the exchange for service or number selection by voice at the terminal H04M1/27

Abstract

The invention relates to an electronic device, which includes a voice user interface (VUI), speech-recognition devices (SR) for implementing the voice user interface (VUI), and memory (MEM), in which language-configuration data is arranged for the user interface (VUI, UI), including several language packages (LP1-LP9), in which packages (LP1-LP9) several languages (L1-L34) are grouped, of which at least some of the languages (L1-L34) may belong to several language packages (LP1-LP9), and at least one language package (LP1) is arranged to be selected for use in the user interface (VUI, UI). In the invention, the language package (LP1-LP9) is selected by the device.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory storing computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and stored computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to at least:

determine a language selected for a first user interface;

determine, based at least in part on the language selected for the first user interface, one or more language packages associated with the language selected for the first user interface, the one or more language packages being determined from among a plurality of available language packages, each of said plurality of language packages having associated therewith a plurality of languages, where at least some of said plurality of languages are associated with more than one of said plurality of language packages;

in an instance in which only one language package is determined to be associated with the language selected for the first user interface;

select the determined language package for use by a speech recognition system; and

in an instance in which multiple language packages are determined to be associated with the language selected for the first user interface;

determine a language selected for a second user interface; and

select one of the determined language packages based on the language selected for the first user interface and the language selected for the second user interface for use by the speech recognition system.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, where a native language package is set for each language.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, where the language selected for the first user interface is selected as a device control user interface language, and where the language selected for the second user interface is selected as a graphical user interface language.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one memory and stored computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to determine one or more language packages by accessing a look-up table.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, where voice user interface language and user interface language combinations are arranged in the look-up table, where one of the plurality of language packages that is suitable for selection for each voice user interface language and user interface language combination is linked.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, where said apparatus is embodied as a mobile station.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more language packages has associated therewith a plurality of languages characteristic of a particular geographical region.

8. A method comprising:

determining a language selected for a first user interface;

determining, based at least in part on the language selected for the first user interface, one or more language packages associated with the language selected for the first user interface, the one or more language packages being determined from among a plurality of available language packages, each of said plurality of language packages having associated therewith a plurality of languages, where at least some of said plurality of languages are associated with more than one of said plurality of language packages;

in an instance in which only one language package is determined to be associated with the language selected for the first user interface;

selecting, by a processor, the determined language package for use by a speech recognition system; and

in an instance in which multiple language packages are determined to be associated with the language selected for the first user interface;

determining a language selected for a second user interface; and

selecting, by the processor, one of the determined language packages based on the language selected for the first user interface and the language selected for the second user interface for use by the speech recognition system.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first user interface comprises a device control user interface and the second user interface comprises a graphical user interface.

10. The method according to claim 8, where a native-language package is set for each language.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein determining one or more language packages comprises accessing a look-up table and determining one or more language packages based on the look-up table.

12. The method according to claim 11, where voice user interface language and user interface language combinations are arranged in the look-up table, where one of the plurality of language packages that is suitable for selection for each voice user interface language and user interface language combination is linked.

13. The method according to claim 8, wherein at least one of the one or more language packages has associated therewith a plurality of languages characteristic of a particular geographical region.

14. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program instructions stored therein, the computer-readable program instructions comprising:

program instructions configured to determine a language selected for a first user interface;

program instructions configured to determine, based at least in part on the language selected for the first user interface, one or more language packages associated with the language selected for the first user interface, the one or more language packages being determined from among a plurality of available language packages, each of said plurality of language packages having associated therewith a plurality of languages, where at least some of said plurality of languages are associated with more than one of said plurality of language packages;

program instructions configured, in an instance in which only one language package is determined to be associated with the language selected for the first user interface, to;

select the determined language package for use by a speech recognition system; and

program instructions configured, in an instance in which multiple language packages are determined to be associated with the language selected for the first user interface, to;

determine a language selected for a second user interface; and

select one of the determined language packages based on the language selected for the first user interface and the language selected for the second user interface for use by the speech recognition system.

15. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein the first user interface comprises a device control user interface and the second user interface comprises a graphical user interface.

16. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein the program instructions configured to determine one or more language packages comprise program instructions configured to determine one or more language packages by accessing a look-up table.

17. The computer program product according to claim 16, where voice user interface language and user interface language combinations are arranged in the look-up table, where one of the plurality of language packages that is suitable for selection for each voice user interface language and user interface language combination is linked.

18. The computer program product according to claim 14, embodied in a mobile device having wireless communication capability.