Speech input system, speech portal server, and speech input terminal

• US 7,299,186 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2005
• Issued: 11/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Okude, Mariko, Kamiwaki, Tadashi, Morioka, Michio, Ohtsuji, Shinya, Kuzunuki, Soshiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Azad; Abul K.
• Application Number:
  US11/060,390
• Publication Number:
  US 20050149332A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,006 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42365 Presence services providing information on the willingness to communicate or the ability to communicate in terms of media capability or network connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4936 Speech interaction details speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

In order to provide a speech input system for having access from a mobile terminal such as a PDA or a portable phone, or a stationary terminal such as a home telephone, a TV set, or a PC to a network through speech, and receiving a service from a provider for providing map information, music information, broadcast program information, and telephone information, the speech input system comprises speech input terminals 10, 30 provided with a speech input/output mean, and an access status display mean, a speech portal server 50 provided with a speech recognizing mean for receiving a speech to recognize it as a text, a command converting mean for checking the recognized text with a command text dictionary, and separating it into a command text and an object text, and a conversation control mean for having an access to, and receiving a service from a provider which provides different information based on the separated texts, and providing the speech input terminal with the service, and a provider 60 for searching information based on the command text and the object text received from the speech portal server, and serves the speech portal server with a search result.

Claims

1. A speech input system comprising:

a speech input terminal provided with a speech input/output mean, a Web browser, and a display mean for displaying an access status to an external system and a search result;

a speech portal server provided with a speech recognizing mean for receiving a speech from said speech input terminal to recognize it as a text, a command converting mean for checking the recognized text with a command text dictionary, and separating it into a command text and an object text, and a conversation control mean; and

an application service provider which is provided with an information search mean for searching information based on the command text and the object text received from said speech portal server through a communication means, and serves said speech portal server with a search result;

wherein said information search mean of the application service provider extracts every (n) characters from the received object text, and searches for information based on n-character INDEX created beforehand.

2. The speech input system according to claim 1, wherein said application service provider is a navigation information application service provider which serves map information.

3. The speech input system according to claim 2, wherein said application service provider is a music information application service provider which serves music information.

4. The speech input system according to claim 3, wherein said application service provider is a broadcast program information application service provider which serves information on at least one of a TV broadcast program, a CS broadcast program, and a CATV broadcast program.

5. The speech input system according to claim 4, wherein said application service provider is a telephone information application service provider which serves telephone information.