Speech input system, speech portal server, and speech input terminal

• US 20050149332A1
• Filed: 02/17/2005
• Published: 07/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Okude, Mariko, Kamiwaki, Tadashi, Morioka, Michio, Ohtsuji, Shinya, Kuzunuki, Soshiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,299,186 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.100
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42365 Presence services providing information on the willingness to communicate or the ability to communicate in terms of media capability or network connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4936 Speech interaction details speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

In order to provide a speech input system for having access from a mobile terminal such as a PDA or a portable phone, or a stationary terminal such as a home telephone, a TV set, or a PC to a network through speech, and receiving a service from a provider for providing map information, music information, broadcast program information, and telephone information, the speech input system comprises speech input terminals 10, 30 provided with a speech input/output mean, and an access status display mean, a speech portal server 50 provided with a speech recognizing mean for receiving a speech to recognize it as a text, a command converting mean for checking the recognized text with a command text dictionary, and separating it into a command text and an object text, and a conversation control mean for having an access to, and receiving a service from a provider which provides different information based on the separated texts, and providing the speech input terminal with the service, and a provider 60 for searching information based on the command text and the object text received from the speech portal server, and serves the speech portal server with a search result.

Claims

1. A speech input system comprising:

a speech input terminal provided with a speech input/output mean, a Web browser, and a display mean for displaying an access status to an external system and a search result;

a speech portal server provided with a speech recognizing mean for receiving a speech from said speech input terminal to recognize it as a text, a command converting mean for checking the recognized text with a command text dictionary, and separating it into a command text and an object text, and a conversation control mean; and

the application service provider which is provided with an information search mean for searching information based on the command text and the object text received from said speech portal server, and serves said speech portal server with a search result.

wherein said conversation control mean has access to, and receives a service from said application service provider which provides different information based on the separated command text and object text, and provides said speech input terminal with the service.