JPH1013544A - Voice mail equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a voice mail equipment in which contents of a voice message having recorded once are corrected immediately from an opposite telephone set. SOLUTION: The voice mail equipment recording a voice message received via a public line is provided with a DTMF/DP detection means that detects a DTMF signal or a DP signal from an opposite telephone set making a speech and a recording reproducing means recording/reproducing the voice message. When the recording reproducing means records a 1st voice message from the opposite telephone set and the DTMF/DP detection means detects the 1st DTMF signal or DP signal, the recording and reproducing means reproduces the voice message recorded during the recording and sends the message to the opposite telephone set. When the DTMF/DP detection means detects the 2nd DTMF signal or DP signal during transmission or after transmission, the reproduction is intermitted during the reproduction and the recording reproducing means records the 2nd voice message from the opposite telephone set.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a voice mail apparatus for recording a voice message received via a public line, and more particularly to a voice mail apparatus capable of correcting a once-recorded voice message.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Voice mail (voice message) to a desired party is put into a mailbox via a public line,
Then, a voice mail device such as a voice mail device that allows the recipient of the voice mail to retrieve the voice mail from the mailbox, or a message recording device that records messages from the other party when the user is away. Is widespread. Various techniques have been disclosed in connection with these voice mail apparatuses. For example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-229566 discloses a technique which detects not only a voice mail but also a control signal from a partner telephone during recording. By doing so, a voice mail apparatus capable of temporarily suspending recording and resuming recording by detecting a control signal from the other telephone in a suspended state is disclosed.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned prior art, the contents of a once-recorded voice message can be modified, including the voice mail apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-229566. If the user inputs incorrect information as a voice message, the user must deny or correct the incorrect information again. Therefore, considering that the storage capacity for recording is limited, it is wasteful to record erroneous information once and then re-record the voice message for negation or correction as described above. And the recording of necessary voice messages becomes impossible. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a voice mail apparatus which can solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art and can immediately correct the content of a once-recorded voice message from a partner telephone.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a voice mail apparatus for recording a voice message received via a public line. DTMF signal or DP
A DTMF / DP detecting means for detecting a signal; and a recording / reproducing means for recording / reproducing a voice message. The DTMF / DP detecting means during the recording of the first voice message from the other telephone by the recording / reproducing means. When the first DTMF signal or DP signal is detected, the voice message recorded during the recording is reproduced by the recording / reproducing means and transmitted to the other telephone, and the DTMF / DP detecting means is transmitted during or after the transmission. DT for the second time
When the MF signal or the DP signal is detected, if the reproduction is being performed, the reproduction is interrupted, and the second voice message from the partner telephone is recorded by the recording / reproducing means. According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the second DTMF signal or DP signal is detected, if the reproduction is being performed, the reproduction is interrupted, and the reproduction is stopped in the storage area following the current reproduction end position on the storage medium. The second voice message was recorded. Further, according to the third aspect of the present invention, the first aspect
In the described invention, a second DTMF signal or DP
When the signal is detected, if the signal is being reproduced, the reproduction is interrupted, and the second voice message from the beginning of the storage area of the storage medium where the first voice message is recorded is overwritten. According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, when an incoming call is detected in a recording mode for recording a voice message from a partner telephone, a voice guidance indicating a voice registration / correction procedure is sent to the partner telephone. Registration correction procedure sending means. Further, in the above invention, when the DTMF / DP detection means detects a DTMF signal or a DP signal from the other telephone while the voice guidance is transmitted by the registration correction procedure transmitting means, the voice guidance is transmitted. Interrupt immediately,
It is configured to proceed to the next operation.

[0005]

According to the first to third aspects of the present invention, the voice message sent from the other party's telephone for the second time is the voice message sent and recorded on the first time. It is overwritten on the message or written in the area following the recording area of the voice message.
According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the above-described operation, when a call is received from the other party's telephone in the recording mode, a voice guidance indicating a voice registration / correction procedure is sent to the other party's telephone. According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, when a push button or the like of the other party's telephone is pressed during transmission of the voice guidance, the transmission of the voice guidance is immediately interrupted,
Proceed to the next.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram of a voice mail device showing an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the voice mail device of this embodiment includes a DTMF / DP detection unit 1 for detecting a DTMF signal or a DP signal from a telephone set during a call, and a recording / reproducing unit 2 for recording and reproducing a voice message. A hard disk device 3 for storing and storing voice messages and programs recorded by the recording and reproducing unit 2, a hard disk control unit 4 for controlling writing and reading to and from the hard disk device 3, a CPU 5 for controlling and managing the entire device, A RAM 6 for storing a program and temporarily storing voice data and the like, a line control unit (NCU) 7 for performing incoming call detection, dialing, and the like are provided. Note that the recording / reproducing unit 2 performs the process of digitizing the received analog audio signal and converting the digital audio data to analog. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an operation flow of the voice mail device according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an operation procedure diagram of the voice mail device according to the present invention. Hereinafter, according to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3,
The operation of this embodiment will be described. The operation flow of this voice mail device will be described assuming that the voice mail device is set to a recording mode for recording a voice message from the other party's telephone according to a user's instruction from an operation unit (not shown).

First, the NCU 7 detects an incoming call (S
1) and a registration / correction procedure sending unit constituted by the CPU 5, the voice data and the program in the RAM 6 are shown in FIG.
As shown in the operation procedure diagram, "This is a voice mail. Please speak the voice message you want to record. If you want to modify the recorded content, please dial 0. Then, the voice you recorded The message is played back. If the message playback has progressed to the point to be corrected, dial 0 and speak with the corrected content, "and the voice guidance is sent (S2). The audio data for the audio guidance is converted into, for example, PCM and stored in the RAM 6. The audio data is read out by the registration / correction procedure sending means, and converted into an analog audio signal by the recording / reproducing unit 2. Sent to the other party's telephone.

When the voice guidance is transmitted as described above, the DTMF / DP detection unit 1
If no F signal or DP signal is detected (S3, N
o), the voice guidance is transmitted to the end (S
4). On the other hand, during voice guidance transmission, DTMF
If a signal or a DP signal is detected (S3, Ye
s) Immediately stop sending the voice guidance and go to step S
Go to 5. That is, since the user of the partner telephone who has experience using the voice mail apparatus and knows the contents of the voice guidance does not need to listen to the voice guidance to the end, the user can press the push button of the telephone to obtain the DTM.
The F signal is transmitted or the DP signal is transmitted by dialing (rotary dial), and the voice recording in step S5 is started. (In the example of FIG. 3, 0 is transmitted as the DTMF signal or the DP signal.)

In step S5, the start sound "P" generated by the recording / reproducing unit 2 is transmitted to the other party's telephone (see FIG. 3), and a voice message input by the user from the other party's telephone, for example, "here I'm Ricoh, please call me, the phone number is 045477188 "(see Figure 3)
Is received by the recording / reproducing unit 2 via the NCU 7. After that, the recording / reproducing unit 2 converts the received signal into PCM and records it in the hard disk device 3 via the hard disk control unit 4 (S5). In the above recording state, no DTMF signal or DP signal is detected (S6,
No), and the process is continued unless the other party's telephone is hooked on (S7 → S5 → S6 → S7). If the other party's telephone is on-hook (line cut) without detecting the DTMF signal or the DP signal (S6, No) (S7, Y
es), the CPU 5 sets the line on-hook state (S
8), end the operation flow.

On the other hand, the DTMF / DP detector 1
When the MF signal or the DP signal is detected (S6, Ye
s) In response to a command from the CPU 5, the recording / reproducing unit 2 reproduces the voice message recorded at that time from the beginning (S9),
It is converted into an analog signal and transmitted to the other party's telephone (see FIG. 3). At that time, the user of the other party's telephone can stop the reproduction at a desired location while listening to the reproduced voice message. That is, when the reproduction has progressed to the desired position, the user presses the push button or turns the dial, and when the DTMF signal or the DP signal is detected by the user (S10, Yes), the recording / reproducing unit 2 performs the operation. (S9 → S10 → S11 → S9) The reproduction is stopped. Then, the voice message received from immediately after the current reproduction end position on the storage medium is recorded (S1).
2). In the example shown in FIG. 3, when proceeding to the section “This is Ricoh's XX. Call me. The phone number is”, a DTMF signal or a DP signal is used to transmit 0 and switch from playback to recording. . This means that the user who noticed that the telephone number was recorded incorrectly is trying to rerecord and correct the telephone number portion.

Therefore, the telephone number portion is re-recorded (S12, S5) (see FIG. 3). The recording and playback unit 2 displays “0445477188” in the area
54771685. "This will fix it. After the second recording (S5), the recording is repeated in the same manner as described above. Step S1
0, no DTMF signal or DP signal is detected (S10, No), the reproduction / transmission of the voice message ends, and the DTMF signal or D
If no P signal is detected (S10, No / S11, Y
es), the CPU 5 sets the line on-hook (S1).
3) Terminate this operation flow.

In step S11, even if the reproduction / transmission of the voice message is completed, if the predetermined time has not elapsed from the end, it is determined that the reproduction is not completed or not, and the process proceeds to step S10 again. If the DTMF signal or the DP signal is detected (S10, Yes), the voice recording is restarted (S12). This is a case in which the first recorded voice message is sought to be checked for any errors by playing back the entirety. As a result, when an error is found, the user of the other party's telephone is referred to, for example, "Recorded." Wrong phone number, correct phone number is 0454771685
Yes. " Such re-recorded content is used because the reproduction end point has advanced to the end and cannot be overwritten on the first incorrect voice message.

As shown in FIG. 3, in the above-described embodiment, the value transmitted by the DTMF signal or the DP signal is always set to 0. However, in step S10, the DTMF signal or the DP signal transmitted from the destination telephone is set. Is detected. For example, if 0, overwrite is performed in the area immediately after the reproduction end position as described above.
It is also possible to return the writing position to the beginning of the first recorded voice message and overwrite it. Also, DT
It is also possible to adopt a configuration in which the voice message always returns to the beginning of the first recorded voice message and is overwritten regardless of the value of the MF signal or the DP signal. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the voice guidance is transmitted in step S2.
A configuration in which the voice guidance is not transmitted is also possible. In addition, it is possible to transmit or not transmit the voice guidance according to the setting of the user.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention,
According to the first to third aspects of the present invention, at the time of voice recording,
Depending on the operation of the other party's telephone, the voice message sent from the other party's phone for the second time is overwritten on the voice message that has been sent and recorded for the first time, or follows the voice message recording area. Since it is written in the area, the first recorded voice message can be modified.
According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, when an incoming call is received from the other party's telephone in the recording mode, voice guidance indicating a voice registration / correction procedure is sent to the other party's telephone. The user who operates for the first time can operate without reading the manual. In the invention according to claim 5,
If a push button or the like of the other party's telephone is pressed during the voice guidance transmission, the transmission of the voice guidance is immediately interrupted and the process proceeds to the next step. Can be omitted.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a voice mail device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an operation flow chart of the voice mail device showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an operation procedure diagram of the voice mail device showing one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 DTMF / DP detector, 2 recording / reproducing unit, 3 hard disk drive, 5 CPU, 6 RAM.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A voice mail apparatus for recording a voice message received via a public line, comprising: a DTMF / DP detection means for detecting a DTMF signal or a DP signal from a telephone set during a call; Recording / reproducing means for performing reproduction. When the first DTMF signal or DP signal is detected by the DTMF / DP detecting means during recording of the first voice message from the other telephone by the recording / reproducing means, The voice message recorded during recording is reproduced by the recording / reproducing means and transmitted to the other party's telephone. During or after the transmission, the DTMF / DP detecting means performs the second DTMF.
When a signal or a DP signal is detected, if the signal is being reproduced, the reproduction is interrupted, and a second voice message from the partner telephone is recorded by the recording / reproducing means. 2. The voice mail apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
Upon detection of the second DTMF signal or DP signal, if reproduction is in progress, the reproduction is interrupted, and a second voice message is recorded in a storage area following the current reproduction end position on the storage medium. Mail device. 3. The voice mail device according to claim 1, wherein
When the second DTMF signal or DP signal is detected, if the reproduction is being performed, the reproduction is interrupted, and the second voice message from the beginning of the storage area of the storage medium where the first voice message is recorded is overwritten. Characterized voice mail device. 4. In the voice mail apparatus according to claim 1, when an incoming call is detected in a recording mode for recording a voice message from a partner telephone, a voice registration / correction procedure is performed for the partner telephone. A voice mail device comprising a registration correction procedure transmitting means for transmitting the voice guidance shown. 5. The voice mail apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the registration correction procedure transmitting means transmits the DT during the voice guidance transmission.
When the MF / DP detection means detects a DTMF signal or a DP signal from the other party's telephone, transmission of the voice guidance is immediately interrupted, and the operation proceeds to the next operation.