JPS58131857A - Telephone communicating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a deaf-mute, etc. to confirm for the transmission of his communication to the other party, by displaying data of key input, and providing a voice synthesis output means transmitting the data as voice, and a means displaying a received voice after recognition. CONSTITUTION:A Kana(Japanese syllabary) sentence inputted with a data input means 2 including Kana-key is displayed on a display 3 for confirmation. Simultaneously, the sentence voice is synthesized at a voice synthesizer and transmitted to a transmitter of a telephone set via a speaker 5 with the depression of a transmission key 4. A telephone pickup 6 inputs a reception voice of the telephone set and gives the voice to the voice recognizer for the recognition of specific words, and the result is displayed on a display 8. Thus, a deaf-mute confirms whether or not the content of his transmission is transmitted to the other party.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention includes a data input means such as a kana key, a display means for displaying data input by the data input means such as a kana character display, a voice synthesis output means, and a voice recognition means,
The present invention relates to a telephone contact device that allows people, such as deaf and dumb people, who do not have a means of communication using a normal telephone to contact a predetermined location such as their home via a normal telephone.

In the past, various devices for deaf and dumb people have been proposed. For example, a speech production device has been proposed that allows deaf and dumb people to easily communicate with ordinary people without using sign language or writing. However, when using such a device to contact a scheduled location such as your home via a regular telephone, it is one-sided and it is difficult to confirm whether or not what you intended was communicated to the other party. I couldn't do it.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and the telephone communication device of the present invention includes a data input means, a display means for displaying the data inputted by the data input means, a voice synthesis output means, Equipped with a voice recognition means and a means for recognizing the incoming voice and displaying the results, people who do not have a means of communication using ordinary telephones, such as deaf and mute people, can call their homes or other planned locations via ordinary telephones. It is configured so that it can be contacted.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a plan view of a telephone communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention, where ■ is the main body of the device, 2 is arranged on the main body 1, and necessary voices such as "a" are displayed on the top surface.

It is a data input means including a plurality of kanji keys having indications such as "i", "tsu", etc. Reference numeral 3 indicates a display means for displaying character information selectively input by the data input means 2, and reference numeral 4 indicates a transmission key for converting the input character information, etc. into voice via a voice synthesis means to be described later and outputting the same. , 5 is a speaker that outputs the voice obtained from the voice synthesis means in the main body 1, 6
7 is a receiving means such as a telephone pickup or a microphone for receiving and inputting the received tone of the telephone; 7 is a red and green two-color display means for displaying the recognition result of the ringing tone from the telephone; This is a recognition result display means for the voice transmitted by the user, and a message is displayed and a display element such as an LED corresponding to the message is provided.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration of the device of the present invention, in which 11 is a controller, 12 is a speech synthesizer for converting predetermined data into speech, 13 is an amplifier for amplifying the speech synthesis output, 14 is a speaker, 15 is a character pattern generator;
16 is a character display means; 17 is a group of display elements such as LEDs for displaying voice recognition results; 18 is a group of kana input keys;
9 is a transmission key; 20 is a voice recognition means including a recognition function such as a call epsilon sound; the means 20 includes a microphone 21 and an amplifier 2;
2, the ring tone from the telephone, the reply voice from the other party, etc. are recognized, the results are sent to the controller 11, and predetermined elements of the display element group 17 are turned on. Reference numeral 23 is a text memory, in which frequently used sentences are stored as fixed sentences.0 The telephone contact device having the above-mentioned configuration transmits kana character sentences inputted by the data input means 2 including a kana key. A voice synthesis function that displays the information on the display means 3 to confirm the identity of the person (such as a deaf or mute person) and produces a text voice using the voice synthesizer 12, and receives a telephone call using the receiving means 6 such as an electromagnetic-coupled telephone pickup or a microphone. This is a device that combines a voice recognition function that inputs sounds and recognizes several words or phrases such as short sentences and telephone ring tones (9) and busy tones (9 busy sounds) using voice recognition means (20), which is carried by deaf and dumb people. When contacting a predetermined location such as a home via an ordinary telephone, the sender operates the data input means 2 including a kana key to create a message, and sends the voice output by the speech synthesizer 12 to the ordinary telephone. to send a call to a contact.

Responses from the other party using predetermined phrases such as "Okay,""One more time," and "I can't do it" are received via the receiving means 6 and discriminated by the voice recognition means 20, and the results are used when inputting kana. display means 3 or L
The sender can confirm the reply result of the other party by displaying it on the display element group 8 such as ED.

The operation will be explained in detail below with reference to the operation flow diagram shown in FIG.

Now, in step n1, when the power switch (not shown) of the apparatus 1 is turned on, the red LED of the display element 7 blinks, and the operator knows the starting state of the apparatus main body 1 from the blinking display of the red LED 7.

Next, a message is input by operating the Japanese key of the data input means 2 (step n2). For example, input the message ``Kasawo motsupu kitekudasai''. Next, in step n3, the receiving means 6 of the device main body 1 is set on a telephone and a telephone call is made to the planned home location. In step n4, the ringing tone is recognized, and when the voice recognition means 20 recognizes the ringing tone, the edge LED of the display element 7 flashes to indicate to the operator that the ringing tone is being emitted. If the ringtone is still not recognized, the process moves to step n14, and the sender determines that the ringtone is not recognized.
If the long-term call OK message does not appear, the user must put down the phone.

Next, the process moves to step n5, where it is determined whether or not the ringtone has been cut off, and if it has been cut off within a predetermined time (for example, 20 seconds),
When it is determined that the other party is answering the phone, the process moves to step 6, and the edge LED of the display element 7 is turned on to indicate that the call is OK. Further, if the ringing tone is not cut off within 20 seconds, the process moves to step n15, and the operation of hanging up the telephone is performed.

The sender confirms that the green LED 7 is lit and moves to the next step n7, and when he operates the transmit key 7, the voice synthesizer 12
is activated, and the message entered in step n2 is displayed.
"Kasawo Moso Teki Tekidasai" is output from the speaker 5, and the green LED 7 turns off (step n8.
n9).

Next, the process moves to step nlO, where it is determined whether or not there is a response, and when it is determined in step nil that a predetermined time (for example, 10 seconds) has elapsed without a response, step n1
2, the red LED 7 blinks to indicate that calls are not possible, and the operator confirms the status and hangs up the telephone in step n+3.

Further, in the above step nlo, the content of the reply message sent from the telephone is recognized by the voice recognition means 20. For example, if the reply is "one more time", in step n22, the content of the reply message is displayed as another message on the display element 8. The corresponding display lights up and the green LED 7 lights up.

The sender confirms this green LED' display and the display content 8 of the reply message, operates the transmit key 4 again, and executes steps n6 to step nlo again.○ At step nlo, the reply message ``Okay. ”, for example, steps n18゜n19
, the response display element group 8 corresponding to the response message "I understand" is turned on, and step n2
3, the green LED 7 is turned on to indicate that it is OK to send a call.

The sender checks this display state and determines whether or not there is another message in step n24.For example, the sender moves to step n25 and inputs the message "Denwa okirimasu", and then moves to step n7 and presses the send key. 4 to execute the similar steps after step n8.

If there is no further message to send in step n24, the phone is put down in the next step n26, the call OK state is canceled in step n27, the green LED 7 is turned off, and the red LED 7 is blinking in step n28. This indicates the end of the series of operations.

Note that rAJ, rBJ, and rcJ in steps n16 to n21 of the above operation flow diagram correspond to predetermined response messages, for example, "No,""Iunderstand," and "I can't."

As described above, contact is made via communication means such as a telephone.

In the above example, the message is keyed in, but for example, sentences that are often used for communication may be stored in the text memory 23 as fixed phrases, and a part of the message may be corrected when necessary to simplify message input. It may be made into

In addition, the voice recognition results are displayed to the sender, and
Misrecognition may be prevented by sending back a synthetic voice saying "It's ``...'' for confirmation.

FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b) are plan views showing the configuration of another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4(a) shows an earphone 9 provided in place of the speaker 5 in FIG. 1. FIG. 2B shows an example in which an audio coupler 10 is provided in place of the speaker 5 and microphone 6. As described above, according to the present invention, people who do not have the means of communication using normal telephones, such as deaf and dumb people, can contact a scheduled location such as their home via a normal telephone, and can still receive a response from the other party. It is recognized by voice recognition means and converted and displayed so that deaf and dumb people can easily recognize it, so its practical effect is that it is a dog.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration of the device of the present invention, Fig. 3 is an operation flow diagram, and Figs. 4 (a) and (b) respectively. FIG. 7 is a plan view of another embodiment of the device of the present invention. 1...Telephone communication device main body, 2...Data input means,
3... Display means, 4... Sending key, 5... Speaker, 6... Receiving means, 8... Recognition result display means,
12... Speech synthesizer, 20... Speech recognition means.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Equipped with a data input means, a display means for displaying the data inputted by the data input means, a speech synthesis output means, a speech recognition means, and a means for recognizing the received voice and displaying the result. A telephone communication device characterized by: