MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH ACTIVE SPEECH RECOGNITION

• US 20090234655A1
• Filed: 03/13/2008
• Published: 09/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kwon, Jason
• Application Number:
  US12/047,344
• Publication Number:
  US 20090234655A1
• 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: 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: G10L 2015/228 of application context

Abstract

An electronic device analyzes a voice communication for actionable speech using speech recognition. When actionable speech is detected, the electronic device may carry out a corresponding function, including storing information in a log or presenting one or more programs, services and/or control functions to the user. The actionable speech may be predetermined commands and/or speech patterns that are detected using an expert system as potential command or data input to a program.

Claims

1. An electronic device that actively recognizes speech during a voice communication, comprising a control circuit that converts the voice communication to text and analyzes the text to detect speech that is actionable by a program, the actionable speech corresponding to a command or data input upon which the program acts.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the control circuit further runs the program based on the actionable speech.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the analysis is carried out by an expert system that analyzes words and phrases in the context of surrounding sentence structure to detect the actionable speech.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a server, and the server transmits the command or data input to a client device that runs the program in response to the command or data input.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the program is an Internet browser.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the actionable speech is used to direct the Internet browser to a specific Internet webpage for accessing a corresponding service.

7. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the service is selected from one of a mapping and directions service, a directory service, a weather forecast service, a restaurant guide, or a movie listing service.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the program is a messaging program to generate one of an electronic mail message, an instant message, a text message or a multimedia message.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the program is a contact list.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the program is a calendar program for storing appointment entries.

11. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the program controls a setting of the electronic device.

12. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a mobile telephone and the voice communication is a telephone call.

13. An electronic device that actively recognizes speech during a voice communication, comprising:

a control circuit that converts the voice communication to text and analyzes the text to detect actionable speech, the actionable speech corresponding to information that has value to a user following an end of the voice communication; and

a memory that stores the actionable speech in a conversation log.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the conversation log is in a text format that contains text corresponding to the actionable speech.

15. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the conversation log is in an audio format that contains audio data from the voice communication that corresponds to the actionable speech.

16. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the actionable speech corresponds to at least one of a name, a telephone number, an electronic mail address, a messaging address, a street address, a place, directions to a destination, a date, a time, or combinations thereof.

17. A method of actively recognizing and acting upon speech during a voice communication using an electronic device, comprising:

converting the voice communication to text;

analyzing the text to detect speech that is actionable by a program of the electronic device, the actionable speech corresponding to a command or data input upon which the program acts; and

running the program based on the actionable speech.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the analysis is carried out by an expert system that analyzes words and phrases in the context of surrounding sentence structure to detect the actionable speech.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the program is run following user selection of an option to run the program.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the program is an Internet browser.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the actionable speech is used to direct the Internet browser to a specific Internet webpage for accessing a corresponding service.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the service is selected from one of a mapping and directions service, a directory service, a weather forecast service, a restaurant guide, or a movie listing service.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the program is a messaging program to generate one of an electronic mail message, an instant message, a text message or a multimedia message.

24. The method of claim 17, wherein the program is a contact list.

25. The method of claim 17, wherein the program is a calendar program for storing appointment entries.

26. The method of claim 17, wherein the program controls a setting of the electronic device.

27. A method of actively recognizing and acting upon speech during a voice communication using an electronic device, comprising:

converting the voice communication to text;

analyzing the text to detect actionable speech, the actionable speech corresponding to information that has value to a user following an end of the voice communication; and

storing the actionable speech in a conversation log.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the conversation log is in a text format that contains text corresponding to the actionable speech.

29. The method of claim 27, wherein the conversation log is in an audio format that contains audio data from the voice communication that corresponds to the actionable speech.

30. The method of claim 27, wherein the actionable speech corresponds to at least one of a name, a telephone number, an electronic mail address, a messaging address, a street address, a place, directions to a destination, a date, a time, or combinations thereof.