KR100215993B1 - Acoustic guide device - Google Patents

Abstract

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multilingual voice guidance device, comprising: storing a multilingual guide voice in a voice memory IC card using a computer, and repeatedly reproducing the stored guide voice through a speaker in a foreign language according to a user's selection. By displaying a language name, the user can obtain information through a corresponding voice message in a language of a desired country.

An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic voice guide using a semiconductor memory, comprising: a voice IC card in which voice data is recorded in at least one foreign language decoded by a computer or the like; This is achieved by the audio reproducing means for outputting voice data recorded on the voice IC card in a language corresponding to the user's selection.

Description

Multilingual Voice Guidance

The present invention relates to an electronic voice guidance device, and more particularly, to store voice guidance in at least one or more languages in an integrated circuit card using a semiconductor memory, and to repeatedly reproduce a desired foreign language if necessary. It relates to an electronic voice guidance device.

In general, a voice guide device is mainly used in museums, exhibitions, and the like. That is, an audio tape was used to explain the basic contents of the exhibited items, or a guide voice was output using a digital memory device.

However, such a conventional voice guide apparatus, in the case of the voice guide apparatus using an audio tape, is continuously reproduced in the same manner as music reproduction, and thus it is almost impossible to find and listen to a specific part. As a result, the audio tape player was turned on, and there was an inconvenience of following the instructions on the tape.

In addition, multilingual support is difficult in the case of a guide voice device using a digital memory device. For example, if it is necessary to guide the same contents in English, Japanese, Chinese, etc. as well as Korean, each language must be stored in a digital memory device in the set, so that voice guidance can be performed in the corresponding foreign language.

Therefore, a dedicated set should be prepared for each foreign language to be voiced. That is, a dedicated set of Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, etc. should be prepared. Otherwise, a digital memory device capable of voice guidance of multiple languages should be prepared in one set. In this case, since the capacity of the digital memory device is required a lot, there is a problem that the cost burden increases.

Therefore, the present invention is to improve the above-described problems of the prior art to store the multilingual guide voice using a computer, etc. in the voice memory IC card, and to repeatedly reproduce the stored guide voice through the speaker in the foreign language according to the user's selection In addition, it is an object of the present invention to provide a multilingual voice guide device that allows a user to obtain information through a corresponding voice message in a language of a desired country by displaying a corresponding language name.

In order to achieve the above object of the present invention, an apparatus for providing a multilingual voice guide includes: a voice IC card in which voice data is recorded in at least one foreign language decoded by a computer or the like; And voice reproducing means for outputting voice data recorded on the voice IC card in a corresponding language according to a user's selection.

The voice reproducing means includes: data transmitting means including a control panel for selectively transmitting specific foreign language voice data among voice data recorded on the voice IC card, and displaying a selected foreign language and a recording time; And a handset that downloads the voice data transmitted from the data transmission means and outputs the guide voice in a corresponding foreign language when a reproduction request is made.

1 is an explanatory diagram for storing a guide voice in a voice IC card according to the present invention;

2A is a combination diagram of a data transmission device, an IC card, and a handset according to the present invention.

2B is a combination of an IC card and a handset in accordance with the present invention.

3 is a detailed external view of the handset in FIG. 2B;

4 is a detail view of the control panel in FIG. 2A;

Fig. 5A is a data format display diagram when one language is recorded on a voice IC card.

Fig. 5B is a data format display diagram when multilingual is recorded on a voice IC card.

6 is a data transmission flowchart of FIG. 2A;

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

200: voice IC card 210: data transmission device

211 control panel 220 handset

221: keypad 222: display unit

223: Speaker

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram of an apparatus for storing multilingual guided voices in an IC card according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 101; A microphone 102 for directly inputting a guide voice message; A voice IC card 200 converts the guide voice from the storage medium 101 and the microphone 102 into a digital signal by the computer 110 and stores the decoded guide voice.

Here, when the voice guidance data stored in the voice IC card 200 is recorded in the first voice language in one language, as shown in FIG. 5A, the recording date, the recording language name, and the total contents of the voice IC card are shown. A TioC (Top Of Content) information area including a number and a start number of each content; And a voice data area in which voice data of each guide content is stored according to the order of contents recorded in the T.O.C information area.

In addition, when the voice guidance data to be stored in the voice IC card 200 is multilingual, as shown in FIG. 5B, the recording date of the voice IC card, the number of recording languages, the number of total contents recorded and the like. A TOC information area including a start number of each content for each language; And a voice data area in which guide voice data of each content is recorded for each language according to the language and content order recorded in the T.O.C information area.

FIG. 2A is a schematic structural diagram of a guide voice reproducing apparatus for reproducing a guide voice in a corresponding language by user selection of voice guide data recorded in the voice IC card 200 stored in FIG. 1. A card 200; Data transmission means (210) including a control panel (211) for selectively transmitting specific foreign language voice data among voice data recorded on the voice IC card and displaying the selected foreign language and recording time; The handset 220 downloads the voice data transmitted from the data transmission means 210 and outputs the guide voice in a corresponding foreign language when a reproduction request is made.

In addition, the handset 220 includes a keypad 221 for receiving guide voice data as shown in FIG. 3 and selecting voice guidance of a foreign language required by a user; A speaker 223 for reproducing guide voice in a foreign language according to selection of the keypad 221; The display unit 222 displays a language name and a recording time selected by the user.

Referring to the operation of the present invention configured as described above with reference to Figures 1 to 5b in detail as follows.

First, as shown in FIG. 1, the present invention converts voice information from a voice storage medium such as a 'CD-ROM', a cassette tape 101, or a microphone 102 directly to a computer 110 in a desired file format. Save it.

In this way, the voice data converted into a file format is recorded in the voice IC card 200. Here, recording of voice data may use a PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) interface.

In addition, when the voice data is stored in the voice IC card 200 by the computer 110, the voice message having the same contents is stored in each language.

The voice data recorded on the voice IC card 200 will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 5A and 5B as follows.

First, as shown in Fig. 5A, the guide voice data in one language includes the date when the guide voice was recorded on the voice IC card 200 in the TOC information area, the recording language name, the total number of contents recorded, The start numbers of the contents are recorded in order, and then the contents of each guide voice are separately stored in the order of the start numbers of the respective contents recorded in the TOC information area in the voice data area. The guide voice stored as described above is first read out of the T.O.C information area to display the corresponding information, and the contents of the selected voice data are read and read, and then played back through the speaker.

The following is a case where a plurality of guide voice contents in a plurality of foreign languages are stored in one voice IC card 200 as shown in FIG. 5B. First, the guide voice is recorded in the voice IC card 200 in the TOC information area. The date, the number of languages recorded, the total number of contents recorded, and the start number of the contents for each language are recorded. For example, if English, Korean, and Japanese each store nine contents, the starting number of the first ninth content from the first number of the first content of English is recorded first, and then the Korean From the start number of the first content, the start number of the last ninth content is recorded, and finally, in Japanese, the start number of the content from the first to ninth contents is recorded in order.

Each guide voice data is stored in the voice data area according to the language recorded in the T.O.C information area and the order of the contents thereof.

Meanwhile, the country codes recorded in the T.O.C information area will be described in more detail as follows. For example, Korea: 02H, English: 01H, Japanese: 03H, French: 04H, Chinese: 05H, German: 06H, ..., respectively set as follows, the data transmission device 210 and the handset 220 detects it. To be displayed on each display unit 211a and 222. For example, when the recorded language is English, ENG is displayed on the display portions 211a and 222, and other recording times are displayed.

In this case, when there is a code in which the set code is ffH, it means that no foreign language is recorded. The languages recorded on the voice IC card 200 and the number thereof can be known according to the country code set as described above.

Next, look at the number of the content recorded on the voice IC card 200, for example, if the number of recorded content is nine, if the user wants to transmit Korean, the country code of English is '1', Since the number of contents is nine, nine address offsets are generated as '1 * 9', and in the case of Korean, the country code is '2' and as '2 * 9', the address offset of 18 is In the case of Japanese, the address offset of 27 is generated as '3 * 9', and the contents of the recorded data can be accessed in units of blocks, so multiply each offset by the block size. The exact location where the foreign language is recorded can be accessed.

As described above, when the voice IC card 200 in which the foreign language guidance voice is recorded is inserted into the IC card inlet of the data transmission device 210 as shown in FIG. 2A, the microprocessor in the data transmission device 210 inserts the inserted voice. The data of the TOC information area in the IC card 200 is read to first read in which language the data currently recorded on the voice IC card 200 is displayed and displayed on the display portion 211a as shown in FIG.

As described above, when a plurality of foreign languages are recorded, the user operates the foreign language selection key 211b of the control panel 211 to select a desired foreign language and then presses the start / stop button 211c. As shown in FIG. 2, the microprocessor 201 in the data transmission device 210 detects this, and guide voice data in the foreign language in the voice IC card 200 is controlled by the microprocessor 203 in the handset 220. Download to memory 204 of the handset.

Next, as shown in FIG. 2B, the guide voice data recorded on the voice IC card 200 is directly transmitted to the handset 220 without using the data transmitter 210. Similarly, the user inserts the voice IC card 200 into the voice IC card 200 inlet of the handset 220 and operates the keypad 221 to read the voice guidance data recorded in the voice IC card 200 by the handset 220. The display unit 222 displays the foreign language name, recording time, etc. on the display unit 222 and outputs the guide voice through the speaker 223.

As described above, the present invention stores a plurality of guide voices in languages of various countries using a computer or the like in a voice memory IC card, and repeatedly reproduces the stored guide voices through a speaker in a foreign language according to a user's selection. In addition, by displaying the name of the language, the handset is not limited to playback of a specific foreign language, but the data is recorded in the voice IC card of any country only by data transmission, and the recorded contents are recorded in the language of the corresponding country as selected by the user. There is an effect that can be output.

Claims (5)

In an electronic voice guide using a semiconductor memory, A voice IC card in which voice data is recorded in at least one foreign language decoded by a computer or the like; And voice reproducing means for outputting voice data recorded on the voice IC card in a corresponding language according to a user's selection. The data recording apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data recorded on the voice IC card includes: a T.O.C information area including a recording date of the voice IC card, a recorded foreign language name, a total number of contents, and a start number of each contents; And a voice data area in which voice data of each guide content is stored according to the order of contents recorded in the T.O.C information area. 2. The data recorded in the voice IC card according to claim 1, wherein the data recorded on the voice IC card includes a recording date of the voice IC card, a number of recording languages, a total number of contents recorded, and a start number of each content for each language. An information area; And a voice data area in which guide voice data of each content is recorded for each language according to the language and content order recorded in the T.O.C information area. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the speech reproducing means comprises: data transmitting means including a control panel for selectively transmitting specific foreign language speech data among the speech data recorded on the speech IC card and displaying the selected foreign language and recording time; And a handset which downloads the voice data transmitted from the data transmission means and outputs the guide voice in a corresponding foreign language when a reproduction request is made. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the voice reproducing means receives voice data directly from the voice IC card and selects a voice guidance of a foreign language required by a user, and reproduces the guide voice in the foreign language according to the selection of the keypad. And a handset including a speaker and a display unit for displaying a foreign language name and a recording time selected by the user.

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