JP3118620B2 - Automatic dial telephone system with directory assistance - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic dial telephone system using directory guidance for extracting a telephone number from the voice of telephone directory guidance and automatically calling the other party.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a telephone number to be called is unknown, dial a directory guide (for example, NTT 104).
The address or name is notified, the corresponding telephone number is searched, and the result is answered by the synthesized voice by the computer. Therefore, the telephone is used according to the procedure of once hanging up, dialing the telephone number obtained from the directory guide again, and calling the corresponding party to make a telephone call.

On the other hand, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-296358 discloses a conventional technique for automatically obtaining information by using a telephone. The same information (for example, weather forecast, road traffic information, time, etc.) used by a large number of people is used. A timer is set at a time at which the content is updated by utilizing the fact that the content is updated at a predetermined time, and when the content update time comes, the number is automatically dialed to obtain the information and the information is obtained. Further, the audio information is automatically recorded, reproduced and used.

[0004]

However, in the prior art, when the number of the other party to be called is unknown, to dial the other party, the dial operation must be performed at least twice in order to inquire the directory guide. . Therefore, it takes time and the number of troublesome key operations increases. In addition, information obtained from the directory guide must be stored or written down. If this information is forgotten or erased, there is a problem that it is necessary to dial the directory guide again to obtain the information.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and has been made in consideration of the above-described problems. The purpose is to provide.

[0006]

According to the present invention, there is provided a dial transmitting apparatus for inputting telephone number data.
Automatically receives the phone number data and automatically calls the other party.
In an automatic dial telephone device equipped with a dial device
To provide a directory key on the dialing device,
If you do not know the telephone number you want to call,
By using the automatic dialing device,
Sends the number data and automatically calls the directory guide,
The other party guided by the response notification voice from the talk number guide
Recognize and extract destination telephone number data, and extract the extracted telephone number
Number data in the storage means, and
Terminates the communication, and then stores the telephone
Send the number data to the automatic dialing device and automatically
It has a function of calling the other party .

[0007]

According to the present invention, when the telephone number of the other party to be called is unknown , the telephone number guide key is operated to provide telephone number guidance.
Call, telephone directory and state the address and name of the other party
To obtain the other party's phone number data.
The other party can be automatically called by telephone number data .

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the automatic dial telephone device of the present invention. As shown in the figure, this apparatus includes a dial transmission device 1, a CPU (central processing unit) 2, an automatic dial device 3, a transmission device 4, a telephone line connection device 5,
It comprises a receiving device 6, a voice recognition device 7, a pattern recognition device 8, a number memory 9, a microphone 10, and a speaker 11.

The dial transmitting device 1 includes a push button 1-1 for dial transmission, a number guide key-1-2 (tentative name), a display 1-3, and the like. The CPU 2 processes the ON / OFF operation of the telephone line, the push button signal from the dial transmitting device 1 or the number data stored in the number memory 9 to generate a dial signal, and sends the dial signal to the automatic dial device 3. The dial signal is output to the telephone line connection device 5 via the automatic dial device 3 and the transmission device 4, and this device is connected to the corresponding party. A voice is transmitted from the microphone 10 via the transmitting device 4, and a voice signal received from the other party is received by the receiving device 6 to listen to the voice from the speaker 11 and talk with the other party.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the automatic dialing system according to the present invention. Description will be made with reference to FIG. When the telephone number of the party to be called is unknown, the user presses a directory service key-1-2 (tentative name) (step ST30).
1). Pressing this key automatically dials the directory guide (step ST302). When connected to the directory service, as in the prior art, the directory service operator is notified of the address or name of the other party and asked to search for the corresponding party number (step ST303). If the other party number is found out, it is notified by a synthesized voice from the computer for number guidance (step ST304). Since this synthesized voice is standardized, the digital data from which the synthesized voice is created is created.
The pattern of the data has a one-to-one correspondence with each voice.

FIG. 2 shows a pattern of digital data corresponding to a synthesized voice of numbers. As shown in the figure, the received speech signal is converted into a pattern of digital data by the speech recognition device 7, and the synthesized speech from the computer is classified and extracted (step ST305). Further, the synthesized speech is compared with a number pattern by a pattern recognition device 8 to extract a pattern of digital data corresponding to the number (step S).
T306), and stored in the number memory 9 (step ST)
307). Since the content of the synthesized speech from the computer almost only answers the telephone number, even the synthesized speech contains 0
It is relatively easy to read only the numerals 9 to 9 because the number of patterns to be stored is small (see FIG. 2).

Next, the CPU 2 operates the telephone line connection device 5 on-hook to automatically terminate communication with the directory guide (step ST308). Thereafter, the CPU 2 performs off-hook operation of the telephone line connection device 5 and automatically sends a dial signal of the number to the automatic dial device 3 based on the telephone number stored in the number memory 9, the transmission device 4, and the telephone line connection device. 5 (step ST30)
9), and start talking with the other party in response to the call (step ST310).

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following effects can be expected. When the telephone number of the other party to be called is unknown, it is possible to call the other party only by operating the number guide key once. That is,
Traditionally, if you don't know the phone number of the person you want to call ,
After I asked the phone number mentioned the address or name of the other party to call the phone number guide, it is necessary at least twice of the dial operation is because the phone to the other party, in the present invention of a single number guide key State the address and name of the other party in the operation and phone number guide
Call, so you can quickly identify the phone number you don't know.
Can be called .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of an automatic dial telephone device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a pattern of digital data corresponding to a synthesized voice of numbers.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of automatic dialing with number guidance according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 dial transmitting device 1-1 push button 1-2 number guide key 1-3 display 2 CPU (central processing unit) 3 automatic dial device 4 transmitting device 5 telephone line connection device 6 receiving device 7 voice recognition device 8 pattern Recognition device 9 Number memory 10 Microphone 11 Speaker

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. Dial dialing for inputting telephone number data
Device and, in an automatic dialing telephone apparatus having a <br/> dialer to call automatically destination receives the telephone number data, a directory assistance key to the dialing device is provided, the destination telephone number you want to call If the telephone number is unknown , pressing the directory key causes the automatic dialing device to call.
Automatically send phone number data for telephone number guide
Call the inside and plan from the response notification voice from the telephone number guide
To recognize the internal has been coming destination telephone number data is extracted, the
When the extracted telephone number data is stored in the storage means,
At the end of the telephone number information communication,
The telephone number data stored in the column
To automatically call the other party
An automatic dial telephone device.