JPS60229463A - Mail system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain reproduction/edition of a mail using a block as a basic unit by allowing a silence detector to detect a pause for a prescribed time or over in an input mail at mail registration, dividing one mail into some blocks and registering them. CONSTITUTION:In registering a mail Nn<2>, a pause detector 11 detects a pause of the voice mail Mn<2> inputted via a voiceinput device 4 from a telephone terminal set 1 under the control of the system controller 14, and when the pause for a prescribed time or over is detected, the end of one voice mail block BL1 is informed to the system controller 8. A mail editing device 12 counts the size of each mail block and a control input device 13 receives a reproducing/editing request signal inputted from the telephone terminal set 1 at reproduction/edition of the mail Mn<2>, and the mail editing device 12 edits and reproduces the block unit and outputs the voice mail from the voice input/output device 4.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a mail system in which one mail is divided into several blocks and registered, and each block can be reproduced and edited.

[Prior art]

A conventional example of a voice-related mail system will be explained with reference to FIG.

In the figure, / is a telephone terminal, ko is a switchboard, 3 is a voice mail registration/playback unit, d is a voice input/output device, y is a mailbox control device, 6 is a mailbox, ri is a guidance output device, and t is a system It is a control device.

Next, to explain the operation shown in FIG. 1, the voice mail registration/playback section 3 is connected to the switchboard by the voice input/output device 47, and receives voice mail (information) from the telephone terminal under the control of the system control device. Register and play. The mailbox control device registers the voice information manually inputted by the voice output device Hiroshi into the mailbox t under the control of the system control device L, reads out the voice information of the registered mail, and outputs the voice information from the guidance output device. Operation guidance is issued to the telephone terminal l under the control of the 2Fi system control device l.

An example of the configuration of the mailbox base in the above system is shown in FIG. ■, ~MBn is the subscriber mailbox for subscriber/~n, 87B is the system mailbox, M is all mail, MECt -MBCn is the management information of each mailbox, Mij (g = //~nr)) is This is the j (j=/~n)th mail in the mailbox MBi of subscriber i (1=/~n).

For email registration and playback, subscriber mailbox management information M
This is done for each subscriber mailbox in accordance with BC1.

In the conventional method described above, the unit of operation is each mailbox for each subscriber, so especially in the case of long voice mails, even if you want to play only each mail in the mailbox, you cannot play the entire subscriber's mailbox. must,
Another drawback was that it was not possible to edit emails, such as deleting unnecessary parts or inserting additional parts.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to solve these drawbacks, this invention uses a voice/silence detection device to detect silent parts (pauses) of a certain length of time or more in an input email when registering an email, and edits the information between the pauses in the email. The object of the present invention is to provide a mail system in which a device stores a block as one block along with its block management information, and allows mail playback editing to be performed using this block as a basic unit.

[Embodiments of the invention]

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the mail system according to the present invention. In the case of the present invention, the voice mail registration/playback section 10 is used in place of the voice mail registration request section 30 in FIG. 7 of the VCFi. , this voice mail registration/playback section 1
0 includes voice/silence detection device//, mail editing device/λ
, a control signal input device/3, and a system control device/da are newly provided, which is different from the case shown in FIG.

Figure 1j4tI is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of a mailbox and the configuration of edited mail used in the present invention. BLC/~BLCm is each voice mail block BL/
This is block management information for ~BLm, and has the size of each voice mail block and pointer information to the previous and next blocks, as described above. In addition, in the figure, the same or equivalent parts as in FIG. 2 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

For example, when registering mail MnJ, under the control of the system control device /I, the sound/silence detection device l/
Detects the silent part of the voice mail registration (information) input via the voice input/output device from ℃, and if the silent part (pause) for a certain period of time or more is detected, the end of the seven voice mail blocks BL/ is detected. Notify system controller JK. The mail editing device counts the size of each mail block and creates block management information BLC/ such as the block size and pointers to the previous and next mail blocks. The mailbox control device 3 registers the mail MnJ consisting of the voice mail block BL/ and the block management information BLC/ in the mailbox 6.

When playing/editing mail MnJ, the control signal input device 13 receives a playback/editing request signal input from the telephone terminal/, and the mailbox control device S receives the playback/editing request signal from the system control device/4.
Under the control of ', the mail MnJ is taken out from the mailbox 6, the mail editing device Noko performs playback and editing in block units, and the voice mail is output from the voice input/output device Hiro.

In Fig. 9, block management information BLC/-BLC
Although the mail structure is shown in which "m" is added to the beginning of each of the corresponding blocks BL/~BLm, as shown in FIG. Very good.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the reproduction/editing procedure of e.g. mail MnJ by the above system, and is the sequence after the subscriber US calls the voice mail system vMs of the present invention. In the figure, step A is the mail service start procedure, and service start guidance S from system VM81m
According to G, the subscriber US enters the subscriber number ID. When the input is accepted, an input end sound ACK is sent, and subsequent operations are possible. Procedure B is a sequence in which mail MnJ is played back to the key MR who keeps sending mails, procedure C is a sequence in which a jump request MJO to the beginning of the mail that was Fled earlier is made, and the procedure is a mail block playback request BRK.
On the other hand, the sequence in which the first mail block BL/ of mail MnJ is played back, step E is a sequence to request deletion of the previously played block BDO, step F is a mail block insertion request BI VC, and therefore a new voice message VM is input. In the sequence, IE is the input end signal. Note that at the end of each procedure, a termination tone ACK is sent from the system VMS to subscriber U8.

In this way, the email system according to the present invention allows you to play and edit one email block by block, delete unnecessary parts and save the email, forward emails with comments added to received emails, and repeatedly play back important parts. It becomes possible.

Although the above description has been made regarding the case where the telephone terminal is used as a subscriber terminal, the present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention may be applied to a multifunctional telephone terminal having function buttons or a voice/data composite terminal having a display device and a keyboard. , In this case, the subscriber's operating procedure becomes simpler. Furthermore, the present system may be used as the audio section of a combined voice and data mail system.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, seven emails are divided into several blocks and registered, so that each block can be used as a reference unit for playback, deletion, insertion, and editing of emails. There are advantages.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a block diagram of a conventional voice mail system, Figure 2 is a block diagram of a conventional voice mail system.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a mail system according to the present invention, FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another example of the structure of mail, and is a diagram showing an example of the procedure for playing and editing mail by the system of FIG. 3. In the figure, / is a telephone terminal, λ is a switchboard, 10 is a mail registration/
A reproduction section, 1I is an audio input/output device, 5 is a mailbox control device, 6 is a mailbox, 7 is a guidance output device, 1I is a voiced fist silence detection device, 12 is a mail editing device,
13 is a control signal input device, /41 is a system control device,
It is. Bill 2 figure, flame 4 figure, banknote 5 figure, flame 6 figure

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] (1) In a mail system in which an exchange network having a storage function provides the storage function to subscribers as a mailbox, and the mailboxes are used for mail communication between subscribers, A sound/silence detection device detects a silent portion longer than an hour, and reproduces and erases information between the silent portions. A mail system comprising: a mail editing device for editing a mail block, which is a unit of insertion operation, together with block management information before mail registration. (j) The mail system according to claim 1, wherein the mail is a voice mail. (,7) The mail system according to claim 1, wherein the mail is a composite mail of voice and data. (41) The mail system according to claim 1, wherein the block management information includes the size of the mail block and pointers to previous and subsequent mail blocks.