Apparatus and methods for conveying telephone numbers and other information via communication devices
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1. A method for communicating telephone numbers from a remote communicant to a local communicant via a telephone connection, the method comprising:
- receiving an oral rendition of a telephone number generated by a remote communicant;
recognizing a sequence of digits in an oral repetition of the telephone number generated by the local communicant; and
storing said sequence of digits.
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Abstract
An accessory device for a telephone system, the device including a spoken telephone number recorder serving a local communicant, the recorder including a spoken telephone number recognizer operative to recognize a telephone number spoken in the course of a telephone conversation between a remote communicant and the local communicant, and a telephone number memory operative to store at least one telephone number received from said telephone number recognizer.
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1. A method for communicating telephone numbers from a remote communicant to a local communicant via a telephone connection, the method comprising:
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receiving an oral rendition of a telephone number generated by a remote communicant; recognizing a sequence of digits in an oral repetition of the telephone number generated by the local communicant; and storing said sequence of digits. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A method for communicating alphanumeric information from a remote communicant to a local communicant, the method comprising:
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receiving an oral rendition of alphanumeric information generated by a remote communicant; recognizing a sequence of alphanumeric data elements in an oral repetition of the alphanumeric information generated by the local communicant; and storing said sequence of alphanumeric data elements.
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5. An accessory device for a telephone system, the device comprising:
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a spoken telephone number recorder serving a local communicant, the recorder including; a spoken telephone number recognizer operative to recognize a telephone number spoken in the course of a telephone conversation between a remote communicant and the local communicant; and a telephone number memory operative to store at least one telephone number received from said telephone number recognizer, and also comprising a spoken telephone number confirmation device operative to confirm the spoken telephone number in the course of the telephone conversation and, if the spoken telephone number is not positively confirmed, to correct the spoken telephone number in the course of the telephone conversation. - View Dependent Claims (6)
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7. Telephone speech recognition apparatus operative in conjunction with a telephone channel connecting a remote communicant with a local communicant and including a remote-to-local audio channel and a local-to-remote audio channel, the apparatus comprising:
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an interactive telephone speech recognizer operative, in the course of a telephone call between the local and remote communicants, to recognize at least a portion of speech conveyed over said telephone channel in the course of the telephone call and to convey to at least one of the remote and local communicants an audio signal based on said portion of said speech as recognized; a first bidirectional communication path operative to convey audio signals from the remote communicant via the remote-to-local audio channel to the telephone speech recognizer and to the remote communicant from the telephone speech recognizer via the local-to-remote audio channel; and a second bidirectional communication path operative to convey audio signals from the local communicant via the local-to-remote audio channel to the telephone speech recognizer and to convey audio signals to the local communicant from the telephone speech recognizer via the remote-to-local audio channel. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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