METHOD FOR PROVIDING VOICE RECOGNITION FUNCTION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF

• US 20130325469A1
• Filed: 05/24/2013
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Hee-Woon, AHN, Yu-Mi, KIM, Seon-Hwa, JEON, Ha-Young
• Application Number:
  US13/902,138
• Publication Number:
  US 20130325469A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/239
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/221 Announcement of recognition results
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/227 of the speaker; Human-factor methodology

Abstract

A method for providing a voice recognition function and an electronic device thereof are provided. The method provides a voice recognition function in an electronic device that includes outputting, when a voice instruction is input, a list of prediction instructions that are candidate instructions similar to the input voice instruction, updating, when a correction instruction correcting the output candidate instructions is input, the list of prediction instructions, and performing, if the correction instruction matches with an instruction of high similarity in the updated list of prediction instructions, a voice recognition function corresponding to the voice instruction.

Claims

1. A method for providing a voice recognition function in an electronic device, the method comprising:

outputting, when a voice instruction is input, a list of prediction instructions that are candidate instructions similar to the input voice instruction;

updating, when a correction instruction correcting the output candidate instructions is input, the list of prediction instructions; and

performing, if the correction instruction matches with an instruction of high similarity in the updated list of prediction instructions, a voice recognition function corresponding to the voice instruction.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the outputting of the list of prediction instructions further comprises defining and outputting a candidate instruction having high similarity to the input voice instruction from among the list of prediction instructions.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the updating of the list of prediction instructions further comprises:

deleting a candidate instruction having high similarity to the input voice instruction from among the list of candidate instructions comprised in the list of prediction instructions, and updating a previously created list of prediction instructions; and

defining and outputting a candidate instruction having high similarity to the input voice instruction from among the updated list of prediction instructions.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

making a request for a re-input of an erroneously recognized instruction in the input voice instruction; and

creating a list of prediction instructions that are candidate instructions similar to the re-input instruction.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the erroneously recognized instruction is output in at least one of an audio form, a text form, and marking.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the outputting of the list of prediction instructions comprises sorting the candidate instructions in order of similarity with the input voice instruction.

13. A computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program that comprises instructions of allowing an electronic device to perform a method claimed in claim 1 when it is executed by the electronic device.

7. An electronic device for providing a voice recognition function, the device comprising:

an audio processor for processing a voice instruction for function execution;

a display unit for outputting an analysis result from the processing of the voice instruction;

at least one processor for executing computer programs;

a memory for storing data and instructions; and

at least one program stored in the memory and configured to be executable by the at least one processor,

wherein, when a voice instruction is input, the at least one program outputs a list of prediction instructions that are candidate instructions similar to the input voice instruction, updates, when a correction instruction correcting the output candidate instructions is input, the list of prediction instructions, and performs, if the correction instruction matches with an instruction of high similarity in the updated list of prediction instructions, a voice recognition function corresponding to the voice instruction.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein the program comprises an instruction of processing to create the list of prediction instructions and to define and output a candidate instruction having high similarity to the input voice instruction from among the list of prediction instructions.

9. The device of claim 7, wherein the program comprises an instruction of processing to update the list of prediction instructions by deleting a candidate instruction having high similarity to the input voice instruction from among the list of candidate instructions comprised in the list of prediction instructions, updating the previously created list of prediction instructions, and defining and outputting a candidate instruction having high similarity to the input voice instruction from among the updated list of prediction instructions.

10. The device of claim 7, wherein the program comprises an instruction of processing to make request for a re-input of an erroneously recognized instruction in the input voice instruction, and to create a list of prediction instructions that are candidate instructions similar to the re-input instruction.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the program processes to output the erroneously recognized instruction in at least one of an audio form, a text form, and marking.

12. The device of claim 7, wherein the program comprises an instruction to sort the candidate instructions in order of similarity with the input voice instruction and to create the list of prediction instructions.

14. A method for managing an input voice instruction in an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving an input voice instruction from a user;

creating a list of candidate instructions that are similar to the input voice instruction;

outputting the list of candidate instructions; and

performing, based on a selection of one from among the list of candidate instructions by the user, a voice recognition function corresponding to the voice instruction.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising updating, when a correction instruction correcting the output candidate instructions is input, the list of candidate instructions.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the updating of the list of candidate instructions further comprises deleting the candidate instruction having the highest similarity to the input voice instruction, and outputting a new list of candidate instructions having a candidate instruction with a next highest similarity to the input voice instruction.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

making a request for a re-input of an erroneously recognized instruction in the input voice instruction; and

creating a list of candidate instructions that are similar to the re-input instruction.