Mobile Device for Speech Input and Text Delivery

• US 20160125881A1
• Filed: 06/30/2014
• Published: 05/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: VOGEL, Markus, NEUBACHER, Andreas
• Granted Patent: US 10,614,808 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/685 using automatically derived transcript of audio data, e.g. lyrics speech recognition G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

Aspects of the disclosure provide systems and methods for facilitating dictation. Speech input may be provided to an audio input device of a computing device. A speech recognition engine at the computing device may obtain text corresponding to the speech input. The computing device may transmit the text to a remotely-located storage device. A login webpage that includes a session identifier may be accessed from a target computing device also located remotely relative to the storage device. The session identifier may be transmitted to the storage device and, in response, a text display webpage may be received at the target computing device. The text display webpage may include the speech-derived text and may be configured to automatically copy the text to a copy buffer of the target computing device. The speech-derived text may also be provided to native applications at target computing devices or NLU engines for natural language processing.

Claims

1. A system for facilitating dictation comprising:

a speech recognition module that resides at a first computing device wherein the speech recognition module is configured to generate text corresponding to speech input received at an audio input device of the first computing device;

a storage device that is located remotely relative to the first computing device and in signal communication with the speech recognition module wherein the storage device is configured to store the text received from the first computing device,

a webserver in signal communication with the storage device wherein the webserver is configured to

provide a first webpage to a second computing device that is located remotely relative to the storage device wherein the first webpage includes a session identifier,

receive the session identifier from one of the first computing device or the second computing device, and

provide a second webpage to the second computing device that includes the text wherein the second webpage is configured to automatically copy the text to a copy buffer of the second computing device.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a text-processing engine in signal communication with the storage device wherein the text-processing engine is configured to process the text and provide output based on the text.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein:

the text-processing engine is a natural language processing engine.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein:

the output provided by the natural language processing engine is a command that controls a device that is located remotely relative to the natural language processing engine; and

the natural language processing engine is further configured to provide the command to the device.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the storage device is further configured to associate the text with a user identifier and associate the session identifier with the user identifier; and

the webserver is further configured to provide the second webpage to the second computing device responsive to determining that the user identifier has been associated with the session identifier.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the webserver is further configured to encode the session identifier in a barcode and include the barcode in the first webpage; and

the speech recognition module is further configured to decode the barcode to obtain the session identifier at the first computing device and transmit the session identifier and the user identifier from the first computing device to the storage device.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the text included in the second webpage is obtained before the webserver provides the first webpage to the second computing device.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the text included in the second webpage is obtained after the webserver provides the first webpage to the second computing device.

9. The system of claim 1 Wherein:

the speech input is first speech input; and

the web server is further configured to update the second webpage to include additional text obtained from second speech input provided to the audio input device of the first computing device subsequent to the first speech input.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein:

the web server is further configured to update the second webpage in real-time such that the additional text corresponding to the second speech input is viewable in the second webpage at the second computing device while the second speech is provided to the audio input device of the first computing device.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein:

the webserver is further configured to update the second webpage by pushing the additional text to the second computing device.

12. The system of claim I wherein:

the storage device is further configured to store the text in one dictation record of a set of dictation records; and

the second webpage includes information corresponding to one or more of the dictation records stored by the storage device.

13. A computer-implemented method of performing dictation comprising:

providing speech input to an audio input device of a first computing device;

obtaining text corresponding to the speech input using a speech recognition engine at the first computing device;

transmitting the text from the first computing device to a storage device that is located remotely relative to the first computing device;

accessing a first webpage from a second computing device that is located remotely relative to the storage device wherein the first webpage includes a session identifier;

transmitting the session identifier to the storage device from one of the first computing device or the second computing device; and

receiving a second webpage at the second computing device that includes the text wherein the second webpage is configured to automatically copy the text to a copy buffer.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein:

the speech input is provided to the audio input device after the first webpage is accessed.

16. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

scanning a barcode included in the first webpage with the first computing device wherein the barcode encodes the session identifier; and

decoding the barcode at the first computing device to obtain the session identifier;

wherein the session identifier is transmitted to the storage device from the first computing device.

17. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

transmitting a timestamp from the mobile computing device to the storage device with the text and the user identifier; and

wherein the timestamp is included in the second webpage with the text.

18. The method of claim 13 wherein the speech input is first speech input and further comprising:

receiving an update to the second webpage at the second computing device;

wherein the update includes additional text obtained from second speech input provided to the audio input device of the first computing device subsequent to the first speech input.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein:

the update that includes the additional text is received at the second computing device in real-time.

20. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

editing the text at the first computing device before transmitting the text to the storage device.

14. The method of clam 13 wherein:

the speech input is provided to the audio input device before he first webpage is accessed.