VOICE CONTROL SYSTEM

• US 20120078635A1
• Filed: 09/24/2010
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Rothkopf, Fletcher, Lynch, Stephen Brian, Mittleman, Adam, Hobson, Phil
• Application Number:
  US12/890,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20120078635A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications

Abstract

One embodiment of a voice control system includes a first electronic device communicatively coupled to a server and configured to receive a speech recognition file from the server. The speech recognition file may include a speech recognition algorithm for converting one or more voice commands into text and a database including one or more entries comprising one or more voice commands and one or more executable commands associated with the one or more voice commands.

Claims

1. A voice control system, comprising:

a first electronic device arranged to be communicatively coupled to a server and configured to receive a speech recognition file from the server, the speech recognition file including a speech recognition algorithm for converting one or more voice commands into text and a database comprising one or more entries comprising one or more voice commands and one or more executable commands associated with the one or more voice commands.

2. The voice control system of claim 1, wherein the first electronic device is further configured to execute the algorithm to convert the one or more voice commands into text.

3. The voice control system of claim 2, wherein the text is compared to the one or more voice commands in the database to determine whether the text matches at least one of the one or more voice commands in the database.

4. The voice control system of claim 3, wherein, if the text matches at least one of the one or more voice commands in the database, the first electronic device is configured to execute at least one of the one or more executable commands associated with the at least one of the one or more voice commands in the database.

5. The voice control system of claim 1, wherein the first electronic device is further configured to transmit the algorithm and the database to a second electronic device communicatively coupled to the first electronic device.

6. The voice control system of claim 5, further comprising the second electronic device.

7. The voice control system of claim 5, wherein the second electronic device is further configured to execute the algorithm to convert the one or more voice commands into text.

8. The voice control system of claim 5, wherein the one or more executable commands correspond to controls on the second electronic device.

9. The voice control system of claim 8, wherein the second electronic device is communicatively coupled to the first electronic device by a wired connection.

10. The voice control system of claim 1, wherein the voice control system further comprises a server.

11. The voice control system of claim 10, wherein the first electronic device is communicatively coupled to the server through a wireless network.

12. A method for creating a database of voice commands on a first electronic device, comprising:

transmitting a voice recording file to a server;

receiving a first speech recognition file from the server, the first speech recognition file including a first speech recognition algorithm and a first database comprising one or more entries comprising one or more voice commands and one or more executable commands corresponding to the one or more voice commands; and

creating a second database comprising one or more entries from at least one of the one or more entries of the first database of the speech recognition file.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving a second speech recognition file from a server, the second speech recognition file including a second speech recognition algorithm and a third database comprising one or more entries comprising one or more voice commands and one or more executable commands corresponding to the one or more voice commands; and

adding at least one or the one or more entries of the third database to the second database.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the one or more voice commands of the first speech recognition correspond to a second electronic device communicatively coupled to the first electronic device.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving a voice command;

executing the speech recognition algorithm to convert the voice command to text.

16. A voice control system comprising:

a server configured to receive a voice command recording, the server configured to process the voice command recording to obtain a speech recognition file comprising a speech recognition algorithm and a database comprising one or more voice commands and one or more executable commands corresponding to the one or more voice commands;

wherein the server is further configured to transmit the speech recognition algorithm to a first electronic device communicatively coupled to the server.

17. The voice control system of claim 16, wherein the database comprises a look-up table.

18. The voice control system of claim 16, further comprising the first electronic device, wherein the first electronic device is configured to record a voice command to obtain the voice command recording.

19. The voice control system of claim 18, further comprising a second electronic device, the second electronic device configured to record a voice command to obtain the voice command recording.

20. The voice control system of claim 19, wherein the one or more executable commands correspond to controls on the second electronic device.