JPH10283054A - Voice starting device and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To start information processing equipment without performing complicated operation such as power source on or user identification data input to the information processing equipment. SOLUTION: An agent computer block 12 compares voice identification data applied from an input/output IF computer block 14 with voice identification data in a user identification table previously stored in a storage device 18 and when they are coincident, a main body 100 of PC (and respective devices connected to it) are started by turning on the power source through a PC interface 16. Afterwards, the user identification data stored in the user identification table corresponding to the relevant voice identification data are possessed and these data are inputted through the PC interface 16 to the main body 100 of PC so that the main body 100 of PC can be set into usable state.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a voice activation device for controlling activation of an information processing device by a user's voice, and a program including an instruction for causing a computer to execute such a voice activation control process of the information processing device. The present invention relates to a computer-readable recording medium that stores the information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an information processing apparatus such as a personal computer, confidential information is prevented from leaking to a third party by inputting user identification data such as a password set in advance at the time of startup.

[0003]

However, in such a method, when trying to use information processing equipment,
The user must input the user identification data after performing the power-on operation. That is, a complicated operation is required when the information processing device is started.

[0004] It is an object of the present invention to be able to start up an information processing device without performing complicated operations such as powering on the information processing device and inputting user identification data.

[0005]

The means of the present invention are as follows. The registration unit registers the user's voice in advance in association with the user identification data for identifying the user. The voice input means is for inputting a user's voice. The voice identification means identifies the user's voice input by the voice input means. The activation control unit compares the voice identified by the voice identification unit with the user voice registered in advance in the registration unit, and when both match, activates the information processing device connected to the voice activation device. At the same time, the user identification data unique to the user registered in advance in the registration means is read, and the information processing device is set to a usable state based on the data.

The operation of the means of the present invention is as follows. When activating the information processing device connected to the voice activation device, the voice of the user input by the voice input unit is identified by the voice identification unit, and the activation control unit transmits the identified voice and the registration unit in advance. Compare the registered user voice, and when they match, activate the information processing device and use the information processing device based on the user identification data unique to the user registered in advance in the registration means. Set to a possible state. Therefore, the information processing device can be started up without performing complicated operations such as turning on the power of the information processing device and inputting user identification data.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. (A) of FIG.
1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an agent device 10 as a voice activation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2B is a configuration of a personal computer (PC) system as an information processing device to which the agent device 10 is applied. FIG.

The PC system includes a CPU and an RO (not shown).
PC main body 100 including M, RAM, etc., key input device 102 such as keyboard, display device 104 such as CRT, portable recording medium 106 such as floppy disk or optical disk
An external storage device 108, which is a portable recording medium driving device for writing / reading data to / from, and a communication interface 110 such as a modem.

The agent device 10 has an input / output interface (I
F) The computer block 14 includes two computer blocks.

The agent computer block 12 includes a PC interface 16 capable of turning on / off the power of the PC main body 100 and exchanging data with the PC main body 100, an agent basic program and a user recognition table. And a portable recording medium for reading them from a portable external recording medium 20, such as a floppy disk or optical disk, which stores the agent basic program and the like stored in the storage device 18. The driving device 22 is connected.

The input / output IF computer block 1
Reference numeral 4 denotes a storage device 24 storing a voice recognition program (P), a semantic analysis P, a voice conversion P, and various other dictionaries; a voice input device 26 such as a microphone; a voice output device 28 such as a speaker; Are connected.

The above agent computer block 1
The user identification table stored in the storage device 18 connected to the storage device 2 is a table having a storage structure as shown in FIG. That is, the voice identification data corresponding to the user's voice previously input from the voice input device 26 is stored in advance in association with the user identification data as a password arbitrarily set by the user in advance, and A start setting flag for instructing whether or not to start is set and stored. Here, it is assumed that the activation setting flag indicates, for example, activation when it is “1” and does not activate when it is “0”. Also, this user identification table has records for a plurality of users.
It is possible to cope with a case where a plurality of users jointly use the C system.

The external storage device 108 of the PC system
The portable recording medium driving device 22 can be omitted by obtaining the data via the PC interface 16 by using the above.

The operation of the agent device 10 having such a configuration will be described below. FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the agent basic program stored in the storage device 18. The agent computer block 12
The PC main unit 100 is controlled via the PC interface 16 according to the agent basic program.

That is, when the agent basic program is executed by turning on the power of the agent device 10, first, the voice input device 26 waits for a voice input from the user (step S10). Then, when there is a voice input, voice identification data corresponding to the voice is given from the input / output IF computer block 14, and it is compared with the voice identification data in the user identification table to determine the presence or absence of the corresponding person ( Step S12). If there is no voice identification data corresponding to the input voice,
Waiting for voice input again. The voice identification data may be a simple match comparison as the name of the speaker or an arbitrary sentence. However, the input / output IF computer block 14 converts the voice of the speaker into a numerical value and performs the comparison. It is preferable in terms of data security.

On the other hand, if there is voice identification data, P
It is determined whether the C system is running (step S1).
4) If not activated, it is determined whether or not the activation setting flag stored in the user identification table corresponding to the voice identification data is set to the PC activation setting, that is, “1” (step S16). If the startup setting has been made, P
The power of the C body 100 (and each device connected thereto) is turned on and activated (step S18). Thereafter, similarly, the user identification data stored in the user identification table corresponding to the voice identification data is obtained (step S2).
0), and inputs it to the PC main body 100 via the PC interface 16 (step S22), and waits for a setting completion notification from the PC main body 100 (step S24). And
When the completion notification is received via the PC interface 16, a voice message, for example, "PC is ready for use" is generated by the input / output IF computer block 14, and is output by the voice output device 28 (step S26). ).

In step S16, the PC
No startup setting has been made, that is, the startup setting flag is “0”
In this case, it is determined whether or not the user's instruction analyzed by the input / output IF computer block 14 is "PC start setting" (step S28). Then, if so, after setting the activation setting flag “1” in the user identification table (step S30), the above-described step S18 is performed.
Then, the PC body 100 is started. If the setting is not “PC start setting”, a process according to the analyzed user instruction is performed (step S30).

On the other hand, in step S14, the PC
If it is determined that the system is running, it is determined whether or not the user's instruction analyzed by the input / output IF computer block 14 is "PC end" (step S34). If so, the process is terminated and the power is turned off by giving a termination command to the PC main body 100 via the PC interface 16 (step S3).
6). If it is not "PC end", the process proceeds to step S30 to perform a process according to the analyzed user instruction.

As described above, the agent device 10
Since the voice from the user is identified and the PC system is set to a usable state based on the user identification data corresponding to the user, the user simply speaks to the agent device 10 and tries to use it. This makes it possible to use the PC system immediately, and it is not necessary to perform complicated operations such as turning on the power to the PC main body, inputting a password, and the like as in the related art when starting up the computer.

[0020]

According to the present invention, the information processing device can be started without performing complicated operations such as turning on the power to the information processing device and inputting user identification data.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1A is a block diagram of an agent device as a voice activation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1B is a block diagram of a personal computer system as an information processing device to which the agent device is applied; It is a figure, (C) is a figure showing the storage structure of a user identification table.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an operation flowchart of an agent device as a voice activation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 10 agent device 12 agent computer block 14 input / output interface (IF) computer block 16 PC interface 18, 24 storage device 20 portable external recording medium 22 portable recording medium drive device 26 audio input device 28 audio output device 30 display device 100 personal Computer (PC) body

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A registration unit for registering a user's voice in association with user identification data for identifying a user in advance; a voice input unit for inputting a user's voice; Voice identification means for identifying the voice of the user; and a voice identified by the voice identification means and a user voice registered in advance in the registration means. Activation control means for activating the information processing device, reading the user identification data unique to the user registered in advance in the registration means, and setting the information processing device to a usable state based on the data; A voice activation device comprising: 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the activation control unit prohibits activation of the information processing device when the voice identified by the voice identification unit is different from a voice of a user registered in advance. The voice activation device according to claim 1. 3. The registration means stores a plurality of pieces of user identification data and user voices corresponding to the plurality of pieces of user identification data, and the activation control means generates a user voice corresponding to the voice identified by the voice identification means. The voice activation device according to claim 1, wherein the information processing device is set to a usable state based on corresponding user identification data. 4. The registration means stores, in addition to the user identification data and the user voice, boot setting information as to whether or not to start the information processing device. When the identified voice matches the user voice registered in advance in the registration unit, it is determined whether to activate the information processing device according to the activation setting information stored in the registration unit. The voice activation device according to claim 1. 5. The voice activation device according to claim 4, further comprising means for setting the activation setting information by a voice instruction from a user. 6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: content analysis means for analyzing the content of the voice identified by said voice identification means; 2. The voice activation device according to claim 1, wherein when the request is a request, the information processing device is terminated. 7. When activating an information processing apparatus, a process for identifying an input user's voice and a comparison between the identified voice and a pre-registered user's voice are performed. A process for activating the information processing device and setting the information processing device in a usable state based on user identification data unique to the user registered in advance, and a program including an instruction for causing a computer to execute , A computer-readable recording medium.