METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTEGRATION OF SPEECH INTO SYSTEMS

• US 20150235640A1
• Filed: 02/19/2014
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: McCullough, Sue, Bibby, David, Sivaratri, Mahesh, Ambooken, Minni
• Granted Patent: US 9,548,049 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/08 Speech classification or search
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/088 Word spotting
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/10 Transforming into visible information

Abstract

A method of managing speech data in a system is provided. The method includes receiving speech data that is generated by a speech recognition module; searching data structures of a definition file for a speech tag based on the speech data, wherein the data structures define features of a display screen; and determining an action associated with the speech tag; and at least one of communicating data to an application of the system and generating display data based on the action.

Claims

1. A method of managing speech data in a system, comprising:

receiving speech data that is generated by a speech recognition module;

searching data structures of a definition file for a speech tag based on the speech data, wherein the data structures define features of a display screen; and

determining an action associated with the speech tag; and

at least one of communicating data to an application of the system and generating display data based on the action.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the searching comprises traversing the data structures arranged in a tree structure of the definition file for a speech tag of the data structure.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the traversing the data structures is based on a state associated with the data structures.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the state is at least one of visible and invisible.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking a state of features that are being displayed, and wherein the searching is based on the state of the features.

6. The method of claim 1, updating a vocabulary based on the speech tag.

7. The method of claim 6, performing speech recognition techniques on a speech utterance based on the updated vocabulary.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the display data comprises generating data that is to be displayed in the display screen.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the display data comprises generating display data to display a new display screen.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the display data comprises generating display data to alter an appearance of a feature of the display screen.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the speech tag comprises a string of characters that is associated with a name or label of the feature.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the speech tag comprises a string of characters that is associated with a function of the feature.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the feature of the display screen is a hidden feature.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the feature of the display screen is a displayed feature.

15. A system for managing speech data in a computing system of an aircraft, comprising:

an information datastore that stores a definition file that is associated with an aircraft related application, wherein the definition file includes data structures that define features of display screens associated with the aircraft related application; and

a computer module that receives speech data, that searches the data structures of the definition file for a speech tag based on the speech data, and that communicates data to the aircraft related application or generates display data based on an action associated with the speech tag.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the definition file stores the data structures in a tree structure, and wherein the computer module searches the data structures by traversing the tree structure.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the computer module traverses the tree structure based on a state of the feature that is defined by the data structure.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the state is a display state of visible or invisible.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the computer module updates a vocabulary based on the state of features that are being displayed, and that generates the speech data based on the vocabulary.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the display data includes at least one of data to be displayed in the display screen, data to alter an appearance of a feature of the display screen, and data to display a new display screen.