Speech command input recognition system for interactive computer display with interpretation of ancillary relevant speech query terms into commands

• US 8,275,617 B1
• Filed: 12/17/1998
• Issued: 09/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Morgan, Scott Anthony, Roberts, David John, Swearingen, Craig Ardner, Tannenbaum, Alan Richard, Temple, Anthony Christopher Courtney
• Primary Examiner(s): Armstrong, Angela A
• Application Number:
  US09/213,856
• Time in Patent Office: 5,031 Days
• Field of Search: 704/235, 704/251, 704/270, 704/275, 704/231
• US Class Current: 704/251
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue

Abstract

In an interactive computer controlled display system with speech command input recognition and visual feedback, implementations are provided for predetermining a plurality of speech commands for respectively initiating each of a corresponding plurality of system actions in combination with implementations for providing for each of said plurality of commands, an associated set of speech terms, each term having relevance to its associated command. Also included are implementations for detecting speech command and speech terms. The system provides an implementation responsive to a detected speech command for displaying said command, and an implementation responsive to a detected speech term having relevance to one of said commands for displaying the relevant command. The system further comprehends an interactive implementation for selecting a displayed command to thereby initiate a system action; this selecting implementation is preferably through a speech command input. The system preferably displays the basic speech commands simultaneously along with the relevant commands.

Claims

1. An interactive computer controlled display system with speech command input recognition comprising:

means for predetermining a plurality of speech commands for respectively initiating each of a corresponding plurality of system actions,

means for providing for each of said plurality of commands, an associated set of non-command speech terms, each term having relevance to its associated command,

means for detecting speech command and non-command speech terms,

means responsive to a detected speech command for displaying said command, and

means responsive to a detected non-command speech term having relevance to one of said commands for displaying the relevant command simultaneously with said detected speech command.

2. The system of claim 1 further including interactive means for selecting a displayed command to thereby initiate a system action.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein said means for selecting said displayed command include speech command input means.

4. The system of claim 3 further including:

a plurality of speech terms used in connection with specific actions of the system, and

wherein said means for providing said associated set of speech terms include;

a stored relevance table of universal speech input commands and universal computer operation terms conventionally associated with actions initiated by said input commands, and

means for relating said plurality of speech terms used in connection with specific actions of said system with commands in said relevance table.

5. A method for providing speech command input to an interactive computer controlled display system with speech command input recognition comprising:

predetermining a plurality of speech commands for respectively initiating each of a corresponding plurality of system actions,

providing for each of said plurality of commands, an associated set of non-command speech terms, each term having relevance to its associated command,

detecting speech command and speech terms,

displaying a speech command responsive to its detection as a speech command, and

responsive to a detected non-command speech term having relevance to one of said commands displaying the relevant command simultaneously with said detected speech command.

6. The method of claim 5 further including the step of interactively selecting a displayed command to thereby initiate a system action.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein said selecting of said displayed command include speech command input means.

8. The method of claim 7 further including the step of:

providing a plurality of speech terms used in connection with specific actions of the system, and

wherein said step of providing said associated set of speech terms includes;

storing a relevance table of universal speech input commands and universal computer operations terms conventionally associated with actions initiated by said input commands, and

relating said plurality of speech terms used in connection with specific actions of said system with commands in said relevance table.

9. A computer readable storage device for speech command input recognition in an interactive computer controlled display system comprising:

means for predetermining a plurality of speech commands for respectively initiating each of a corresponding plurality of system actions,

means for providing for each of said plurality of commands, an associated set of non-command speech terms, each term having relevance to its associated command,

means for detecting speech command and non-command speech terms,

means responsive to a detected speech command for displaying said command, and

means responsive to a detected non-command speech term having relevance to one of said commands for displaying the relevant command simultaneously with said detected speech command.

10. The computer readable storage device of claim 9 further including interactive means for selecting a displayed command to thereby initiate a system action.

11. The computer readable storage device of claim 10 wherein said means for selecting said displayed command include speech command input means.

12. The computer readable storage device of claim 11 further including:

a plurality of speech terms used in connection with specific actions of the system, and

wherein said means for providing said associated set of speech terms include;

a stored relevance table of universal speech input commands and universal computer operation terms conventionally associated with actions initiated by said input commands, and

means for relating said plurality of speech terms used in connection with specific actions of said system with commands in said relevance table.