Personal home voice portal
First Claim
1. A method for remotely requesting information and/or services from at least one remote service server through a home personal computer, the method comprising steps of:
- receiving, at the home personal computer, a telephone call from a user that is registered with the home personal computer, wherein the telephone call is a call originating from a device remote from the home personal computer, wherein the home personal computer is directly connected to the user'"'"'s subscriber line;
receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call;
performing speech recognition on the user spoken utterance to determine a request for information and/or a service;
formatting an electronic message according to the request;
sending the electronic message over a communication network from the home personal computer to the at least one remote service server;
receiving content at the home personal computer from the at least one remote service server;
converting the content to speech audio at the home personal computer; and
playing the speech audio to the user over the telephone call.
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Abstract
A method of accessing voice services through a personal computing system can include receiving, in the personal computing system, a telephone call from a user registered with the personal computing system, wherein the user is remotely located from the personal computing system, receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call, and speech recognizing the user spoken utterance to determine a request for a voice service. The method further can include formatting an electronic message according to the request for a voice service and sending the electronic message over a communications network to a remote computing system in accordance with the request for a voice service. Also, the method can include processing and formatting a response received from the remote computing system and playing back audio to the user over the telephone call.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for remotely requesting information and/or services from at least one remote service server through a home personal computer, the method comprising steps of:
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receiving, at the home personal computer, a telephone call from a user that is registered with the home personal computer, wherein the telephone call is a call originating from a device remote from the home personal computer, wherein the home personal computer is directly connected to the user'"'"'s subscriber line; receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call; performing speech recognition on the user spoken utterance to determine a request for information and/or a service; formatting an electronic message according to the request; sending the electronic message over a communication network from the home personal computer to the at least one remote service server; receiving content at the home personal computer from the at least one remote service server; converting the content to speech audio at the home personal computer; and playing the speech audio to the user over the telephone call. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16)
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9. An article of manufacture comprising at least one computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by at least one computer, perform a method for remotely requesting information and/or services from at least one remote service server through a home personal computer, the method comprising:
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receiving, at the home personal computer, a telephone call from a user that is registered with the home personal computer, wherein the telephone call is a call originating from a device remote from the home personal computer, wherein the home personal computer is directly connected to the user'"'"'s subscriber line; receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call; performing speech recognition on the user spoken utterance to determine a request for information and/or a service; formatting an electronic message according to the request; sending the electronic message over a communication network from the home personal computer to the at least one remote service server; receiving content at the home personal computer from the at least one remote service server; converting the content to speech audio at the home personal computer; and playing the speech audio to the user over the telephone call. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 17)
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14. A home personal computer programmed to request information and/or services from at least one remote service server on behalf of a user that is registered with the home personal computer, the home personal computer comprising:
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a telephone connection to receive a telephone call from the user at the home personal computer, wherein the telephone call is a call originating from a device remote from the home personal computer, wherein the telephone connection is capable of receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call, wherein the home personal computer is directly connected to the user'"'"'s subscriber line; a speech recognizer to recognize the user spoken utterance to determine a request for information and/or a service; at least one interface to format an electronic message according to the request; a network connection to send the electronic message from the home personal computer over the communication network to the at least one remote service server and to receive content from the at least one remote service server at the home personal computer; and a text-to-speech synthesizer to convert the content to speech audio and play the speech audio to the user over the telephone call. - View Dependent Claims (15, 18)
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Specification