SPEECH-BASED FILE GUIDING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20080046239A1
• Filed: 08/10/2007
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: BOO, John
• Application Number:
  US11/837,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20080046239A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems

Abstract

A speech-based file guiding apparatus and method for a mobile terminal capable of playing multimedia files is provided. The speech-based file guiding method includes checking if a music play mode is activated; checking whether a file selection signal is input, if the music play mode is activated; and outputting, audio sounds corresponding to file information on a selected file if a file selection signal is input. As a result, file information is provided as speech, and the user can use the mobile terminal in an eyes-free mode.

Claims

1. A speech-based file guiding method for a mobile terminal, comprising:

checking if a music play mode is activated;

checking, if the music play mode is activated, whether a file selection signal is input; and

outputting audio sounds corresponding to file information on a file selected according to the input file selection signal if a file selection signal is input.

2. The speech-based file guiding method of claim 1, wherein the file is a music file.

3. The speech-based file guiding method of claim 2, wherein the file information comprises at least one of a title, artist, and genre of the selected music file.

4. The speech-based file guiding method of claim 2, wherein outputting audio sounds comprises:

finding a music file indicated by the input file selection signal;

extracting metadata from the found music file;

creating text information corresponding to the extracted metadata; and

converting the text information into audio sounds.

5. The speech-based file guiding method of claim 4, wherein the text information is converted into the audio sounds through text-to-speech synthesis.

6. The speech-based file guiding method of claim 5, wherein the text information comprises at least one of a title, artist, and genre of the selected music file.

7. A speech-based file guiding method for a mobile terminal, comprising:

checking if a music play mode is activated;

checking, if the music play mode is activated, whether a file selection signal is input;

converting file information on a music file selected according to the input file selection signal into audio sounds if a file selection signal is input;

decoding music data of the selected music file into audio sounds; and

outputting the audio sounds.

8. The speech-based file guiding method of claim 7, wherein the file information is metadata attached to the selected music file.

9. The speech-based file guiding method of claim 8, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of a title, artist, and genre of the selected music file.

10. The speech-based file guiding method of claim 7, wherein converting file information comprises:

extracting metadata from the music file;

creating text information corresponding to the extracted metadata; and

converting the text information into audio sounds.

11. The speech-based file guiding method of claim 7, wherein the speech and the music are output in sequence.

12. The speech-based file guiding method of claim 7, wherein the speech and the music are output simultaneously.

13. A speech-based file guiding apparatus for a mobile terminal, comprising:

a memory unit for storing music files;

a control unit for selecting, in response to a file selection signal, a music file from the memory unit; and

a speech guiding module for converting file information on the selected music file into speech, and outputting the speech together with music of the selected music file.

14. The speech-based file guiding apparatus of claim 13, wherein the speech guiding module comprises:

a coder/decoder (CODEC) for decoding music data of the selected music file into music; and

a speech generator for converting the file information into speech.

15. The speech-based file guiding apparatus of claim 14, wherein the speech generator comprises:

a metadata parser for extracting metadata from the selected music file; and

a speech synthesizer for converting the metadata into audio sounds.

16. The speech-based file guiding apparatus of claim 15, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of a title, artist, and genre of the selected music file.

17. The speech-based file guiding apparatus of claim 16, wherein the speech synthesizer is a text-to-speech synthesizer.

18. The speech-based file guiding apparatus of claim 16, wherein the speech and the music are output in sequence.

19. The speech-based file guiding apparatus of claim 16, wherein the speech and the music are output simultaneously.