Voice controlled wireless communication device system

• US 20070174058A1
• Filed: 08/09/2006
• Published: 07/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mobile Voice Control LLC
• Original Assignee: Mobile Voice Control LLC
• Inventors: Burns, Stephen, Kowitz, Mickey
• Granted Patent: US 7,957,975 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.100
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4936 Speech interaction details speech recognition per se G10L15/00

Abstract

A wireless communication device is disclosed that accepts recorded audio data from an end-user. The audio data can be in the form of a command requesting user action. Likewise, the audio data can be converted into a text file. The audio data is reduced to a digital file in a format that is supported by the device hardware, such as a .wav, .mp3, .vnf file, or the like. The digital file is sent via secured or unsecured wireless communication to one or more server computers for further processing. In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the system evaluates the confidence level of the of the speech recognition process. If the confidence level is high, the system automatically builds the application command or creates the text file for transmission to the communication device. Alternatively, if the confidence of the speech recognition is low, the recorded audio data file is routed to a human transcriber employed by the telecommunications service, who manually reviews the digital voice file and builds the application command or text file. Once the application command is created, it is transmitted to the communication device. As a result of the present invention, speech recognition in the context of a communications devices has been shown to be accurate over 90% of the time.

Claims

1. A voice controlled wireless communication device system comprising:

a wireless communication device capable of recording a voice command, recited by a user, and executing a software based application resident on the communication device;

one or more server computers capable of communicating with the wireless communication device, comprising at least one server based module for creation of a command to be executed on the communication device;

wherein said software based application communicates the voice command to said server computer; and

wherein the server computer initiates at least one speech recognition process to identify the voice command, constructs an application command based on the voice command and communicates the application command to the wireless communication device; and

wherein said software based application directs the application command communicated from the server computer to the appropriate software based application on the wireless communication device for execution.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the voice command includes a unique device identifier for identification of the wireless communication device.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said unique device identifier is utilized to track system usage and account for use of the system.

4. The system of claim 1 including at least one additional server computer comprising at least one speech recognition process;

and wherein the voice command is directed to the additional server computers based on user-based server criteria.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein at least one of the user-based server criteria includes server activity.

6. The system of claim 4 wherein at least one of the user-based server criteria includes type of said voice command.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the voice command is stored in a storage media on the communication device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the voice command is stored on the server computer.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein in response to the voice command, the system directs the request to specific content providers.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the voice command includes commands to receive multimedia content.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the software based application presents a list of potential commands to be recorded.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the software based application presents a list of potential commands to be executed.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication device maintains a contact list, and the contact list is periodically transmitted and stored on the server computer.

14. The system of claim 1, including an additional server computer;

and wherein based on the type of voice command, the server computer directs the command to the additional server computer for processing.

15. A voice controlled wireless communication device system comprising:

a wireless communication device capable of recording voice commands recited by a user, and executing a software based applications resident on the communication device;

one or more server computers capable of communicating with the wireless communication device, comprising at least one server based module for creation of a command to be executed on the communication device;

wherein said software based application communicates the voice command to said server computer; and

wherein the server computer initiates speech recognition software to identify the voice command and assigns a confidence level to the identification of the voice command; and

wherein in response to the assigned confidence level, an application command is automatically constructed or the voice command is routed to a human transcriber wherein the human transcriber manually reviews the voice command and constructs an application command;

and wherein when the application command is communicated to the wireless communication device;

the software based application directs the application command to the appropriate software based application on the wireless communication device for execution.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the speech recognition software is capable of being trained to better understand the user'"'"'s voice commands, and the human transcriber trains the speech recognition software in response to a confidence level assigned by the speech recognition software.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein routing to the human transcriber is based on transcriber criteria.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein at least one of the transcriber criteria includes the type of voice command.

19. A method of controlling wireless communication devices via voice commands comprising:

initiating a software based application resident on a wireless communication device, to prompt the user to enter a voice command;

recording a user voice command via on the communication device and communicating the voice command to a server computer;

receiving the user voice command on the server computer, initiating speech recognition software to identify the user voice command, and in response to the identification of the voice command, constructing an application command to be executed on the communication device;

communicating the application command to the communication device; and

executing the application command in response to receiving the application command.

20. The method as in claim 19 wherein the speech recognition software assigns a confidence level to the identification of the voice command and in response to the confidence level, the voice command is routed to a human transcriber for review and construction of an application command.

21. A voice controlled wireless communication device system comprising:

a wireless communication device capable of recording audio data recited by a user, and executing a software based application resident on the communication device;

one or more server computers capable of communicating with the wireless communication device, comprising at least one server based module for creation of a text version of the audio data;

wherein said software based application communicates the audio data to said server computer; and

wherein the server computer initiates speech recognition software to identify the audio data, construct a text version of the audio data, and communicate the text version of the audio data to the wireless communications device; and

wherein said software based application directs the text version of the audio data to the appropriate software based application on the wireless communication device.

22. The system as in claim 21 wherein the speech recognition software assigns a confidence level to the identification of the audio data and in response to the confidence level, the audio data is routed to a human transcriber for review and construction of the text version of the audio data.