KR100383053B1 - The method of storing, guiding and auto-connecting telephone numbers with voice identification for the cellular phone and the system of the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for storing and guiding a voice recognition phone number for a mobile phone, an automatic connection method and a system thereof. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of transmitting a voice file received from a mobile phone user to a main server using a voice file in an interface device; Recognizing the voice file received from the main server and converting the voice file into text; determining whether the voice file means storing the phone number or searching for a phone number; Searching for a keyword by using a discourse technique using a discourse technique; storing the keyword in a database server in the main server when the voice file means storing a phone number; If the search means the search of the database server with the keyword found in the main server And a step of making the searched phone number into a voice file in the main server and transmitting the voice file to an interface device, and converting the voice file received from the interface device into voice and transmitting the voice file to a user. At this time, if you want to make a phone call, the main server automatically dials the searched phone number. According to the present invention, the mobile phone user can create, store and search his / her own phone book using only voice, and can automatically make a phone connection, thereby achieving the effect of using the mobile phone more conveniently.

Description

The method of storing, guiding and auto-connecting telephone numbers with voice identification for the cellular phone and the system of the same}

The present invention relates to a voice recognition telephone number storage and guidance for a mobile phone, a system for automatically connecting a phone, and a method thereof, and more particularly, to recognize a user's voice, and to store a phone number by voice and to search a stored content. The present invention relates to a system and a method for automatically connecting a telephone number.

In the related art, a mobile phone having a built-in voice recognition function to connect a phone by voice by embedding a voice recognition function inside a mobile phone has been provided. In addition, there is a function to store and retrieve phone numbers and other contents inside the mobile phone. This function is used as a method of selecting and viewing the keyboard of the mobile phone directly.

However, the existing automatic phone connection function built into the mobile phone was extremely insignificant due to the limitation of the memory capacity inside the phone, the complicated usage method, and the deterioration of the voice recognition rate. In addition, in order to use the existing phone number storage and guide function, it is cumbersome because it needs to store and search by using the keyboard while looking directly at the display part, and there are many safety problems, especially when it is used while moving. In addition, there has been a problem of losing information stored in the mobile phone when the mobile phone is lost.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to recognize the voice of the mobile phone user of the LVR engine of LH company to automatically store and retrieve their phone book through the discourse technology and LH company RealSpeak provides search results and improved voice recognition phone number storage and guidance for mobile phones that can connect directly to a phone.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a mobile telephone system.

Figure 2 is a block diagram showing a mobile phone system comprising a voice recognition telephone number storage and guidance, automatic connection system according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a block diagram showing the internal module of the interface device of the telephone number storage and guidance, automatic connection system according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is a block diagram showing the internal module of the main server of the phone number storage and guidance, automatic connection system according to the present invention.

Figure 5 is a flow diagram illustrating the overall process in the telephone number storage and guidance, automatic connection system according to the present invention.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a keyword search script used in the present invention.

According to an aspect of the present invention, the method for storing, guiding, and automatically connecting a voice recognition phone number for a mobile phone according to the present invention comprises the steps of transmitting a voice received from a mobile phone user to a main server by making a voice file in an interface device; Recognizing the voice file received from the main server and changing the text file into text; determining whether the voice file means storing the phone number or searching for a phone number; Searching for a keyword using a discourse technique of a series of characters, storing the keyword in a database server in the main server if the voice file means storing a telephone number, and the voice file is a telephone call. In case of searching the number, the database server is searched by the keyword found in the main server. Searching for, and making the searched phone number as a voice file in the main server to transmit to the interface device, and converting the voice file received from the interface device into a voice and transmitting to the user. It also includes a step of automatically calling the main server with the searched phone number or a step of recognizing a number that is a phone number and dialing the number accordingly.

In addition, according to another aspect of the present invention, the voice recognition telephone number storage, guidance, and automatic connection system for a mobile phone according to the present invention means for transmitting a voice file received from the mobile phone user in the interface device to a voice file to the main server And means for recognizing the voice file received from the main server and converting the voice file into a text; and means for determining whether the voice file means storing the telephone number or searching for a telephone number in the main server; Means for finding a keyword by using the discourse technique of the series of characters, and means for storing the keyword in a database server in the main server when the voice file means storing a telephone number, and the voice file. If this means to search for the phone number, the keyword is found on the main server. It means for searching the database server, and the retrieved telephone number and means for creating a sound file transmitted to the interface unit from the main server, change the audio file received from the interface device by voice means for transmitting to the user. It also includes a means for automatically calling the main server from the retrieved telephone number or a means for recognizing a number that is a telephone number and dialing the number accordingly.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a mobile telephone system.

The mobile telephone system includes a mobile station (MS) 100, which is a means of directly calling a user, a base station transmit substation (BTS) 110 for transmitting and receiving a wireless signal with the terminal, and a connection with the base station. BSC (Binary Synchronous Controller, 120), HLR (Home Location Register, 130), Mobile Switching Center (MSC, 140), which acts as an exchanger. It further includes a public switched telephone network (PSTN, 150), a private branch exchange (PBX, 160), a wired telephone terminal 170. The operation of the mobile telephone system is as follows. When the user having the mobile telephone terminal 100 makes a call, the mobile telephone terminal 100 is connected to the mobile telephone exchange 140 through the mobile communication base station 110, the BSC 120, the HLR 130, and the receiver is the mobile telephone terminal 100. In this case, when the mobile terminal switch 140 transmits the terminal signal of the receiver to each mobile communication base station 110 through the HLR 130 and the BSC 120, the mobile telephone exchange 140 receives the signal of the nearest base station 110 and moves the receiver. The telephone terminal 100 is connected to make a call. When the receiver is the general telephone 170, the mobile telephone exchange 140 is connected to the general telephone 170 through the PSTN 150 and the PBX 160 to make a call.

Figure 2 is a block diagram showing a mobile phone system including a voice recognition telephone number storage and guidance, automatic connection system according to the present invention. Mobile phone system including a voice recognition telephone number storage and guidance, automatic connection system according to the present invention is a private branch exchange (PBX, 160) for connecting the user's phone to the interface device 200, the user interacts with the user And a format module for transforming a voice module of the user to a voice file and transmitting the voice file transmitted from the main server to the main server 210 and transmitting the voice file transmitted from the main server to the PBX 160. An interface device 200, a voice recognition module for recognizing a voice file received from the interface device 200, and converting the voice file into a text; a search module for searching for and storing a keyword in the changed text and searching or storing the keyword in the database server 220; Enables automatic phone connection based on voice synthesis module and searched phone number that converts searched phone number to voice file A main server 210 including a telephone automatic connection module, a database server 220 storing phone number data of each user, and the interface device 200, the main server 210 and the database server 220. It includes a network 230 that connects to the existing mobile phone system. The network 230 may use the TCP / IP protocol.

Figure 3 is a block diagram showing the internal module of the interface device of the telephone number storage and guidance, automatic connection system according to the present invention. The interface device 200 includes an exchange module 300 for allocating a telephone line and a formatting module 310 for converting a user's voice into a voice file in accordance with a protocol so that the voice can be recognized by the main server.

The exchange module 300 serves to maintain the location of the user who dialed when there are multiple ports (junctions).

The format module 310 transforms the user's voice into a file to be recognized by the main server 210 and transforms the voice file received from the main server 210 so that the user can hear it. Since the voice support board used in the interface device 200 has a different specification for each company, it must be uniformly modified to be recognizable by the main server 210.

Figure 4 is a block diagram showing the internal module of the main server of the phone number storage and guidance, automatic connection system according to the present invention. When the main server 210 receives the voice file from the interface device 200, the voice recognition module 400 recognizes the voice file and converts the voice file into a text. The main server 210 searches for a keyword in the changed text and searches the keyword in the database server 220. The search module 410 for searching or storing the voice synthesis module 420 for changing the searched phone number into a voice file and the phone automatic connection module 430 for automatically dialing the searched phone number.

The voice recognition module 400 analyzes the received voice file and transmits a voice to the user through the interface device 200 informing the user that the voice is unrecognizable and to try again if the voice file is not recognized. When the received voice file is recognized, the voice is changed to a text and transmitted to the search module 410. In addition, it is determined whether the voice file means storing the phone number or searching the phone number, and transmits the result of the determination to the search module 410 together. The speech recognition module 400 may be implemented using an LH (Large Vocabulary Recognition) engine. In addition, it is possible to recognize a number that is a phone number and make a call directly as the number. In this case, the number is obtained by the voice recognition module 400 and the number corresponding to a parameter set by the search module 410 is set. Combining the phone number to perform the automatic telephone connection module 430 to make a call.

The search module 410 finds a keyword in the text received from the voice recognition module 400. If the keyword is not found, a voice is transmitted to the user through the interface device 200 informing the user that the desired phone number cannot be stored or found and to try again. If a keyword is found, the phone number is stored in the database server 220 or the database server 220 is searched to find the desired phone number according to the determination result received from the voice recognition module 400. In case of searching, if the search result exists, the voice is transmitted to the voice synthesis module 420 if it exists, and if it does not exist, the user notifies that the desired phone number does not exist and tries to try again. Send to the user via the device 200.

The voice synthesis module 420 synthesizes sentences based on the text received from the search module 410 and converts the sentences into voice files. The speech synthesis method can be performed by using an automatic speech response system (ARS) that synthesizes only a limited number of vocabulary and syntax structures, or an unlimited lexical synthesis system that synthesizes speech by receiving arbitrary sentences. have. In the case of using an unlimited lexical synthesis system, the unlimited lexical synthesis system can be implemented using RealSpeak, which is a text-to-speech (TTS) engine of LH. After the voice synthesis, the synthesized voice file is transmitted to the user through the interface device 200.

The automatic telephone connection module 430 enables automatic telephone connection using the telephone number found in the search module 410. Ask the user if they want to connect automatically, and if they want, first check whether the phone you want to connect is a landline phone or a mobile phone. In other words, by interfacing the phone number value to the PBX, in the case of a wired general telephone, the telephone is connected through the PBX and PSTN included in the system. Connect the phone through.

Figure 5 is a flow diagram illustrating the overall process of the phone number storage and guidance, automatic connection system according to the present invention. In step 500, the mobile phone user through the BTS (110), BSC (120), MSC (140), PSTN (150), PBX (160) when the phone number is stored and guided, call the automatic connection system The telephone line is assigned by the exchange module 300 of the interface device 200. When the user is assigned a line and a message is issued during the conversation 501 through the computer and the user speaks accordingly, in step 502, the user's voice is received and in step 503, the format module of the interface device 200 ( The voice is formatted into a file so that the main server 210 can recognize the voice through 310 and transmits the voice to the voice recognition module 400 of the main server 210. In step 510, if the voice recognition module 400 cannot recognize and recognize the received voice file, in step 511, the voice recognition module 400 transmits to the user that the voice recognition is not possible through the interface device. Return to 501). If it can be recognized, in step 512, the voice file is changed to a text and transmitted to the search module 410 of the main server 210. In addition, it is determined whether the voice file means storing the telephone number or searching the telephone number, and transmits the determination result to the search module 410 together. The search module 410 that has received the text and the determination result finds a keyword in the text in step 520. If the keyword is not found, in step 521, the content that the keyword cannot be found is transmitted to the user through the interface device 200, and the flow returns to step 501. If a keyword can be found, in step 522, the keyword is stored in the database server 220 or the database server 220 is searched according to the keyword according to the determination result. If the determination result is a search, in step 523, it is determined whether a search result exists, and if it does not exist, in step 524, the content that there is no search result is transmitted to the user through the interface device 200, and step 501. Back to If there is a search result, the search result is transmitted to the voice synthesis module 420 of the main server 210, and the voice synthesis module 420 synthesizes a sentence based on the search result in a voice file in step 530. Change and transmit the voice to the interface device 200. If the interface device 200 receives the voice file in step 540, the format module formats the format so that the user can recognize the voice file. In step 550, the interface device 200 transmits the formatted voice to the user. In addition, in step 560, the user inquires whether the user wants to connect to the phone number, and if the user wants, in step 561, the telephone is automatically connected by the method described above in the automatic connection module 430 of the main server 210. And making a connection.

In another variation, even when a search result is present in step 523, the user is asked to confirm whether the recognition content in step 510 is correct, and the user's answer is analyzed and the answer is correct. If only the process of step 530, step 540 and step 550 is answered and the answer is not correct, step 501 may be returned.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a keyword search script used in the present invention. As described above, the search module 410 of the main server 210 finds a keyword through the text of the user's voice file. It's the same way. Sentences for storing and retrieving a phone number for each user may be different, and the possible sentences are defined in a script and stored in advance in a storage space of the main server 210. The search module 410 compares the received text with the script stored in the storage space of the main server 210. In the script, the location of the main word is specified, and a keyword can be extracted from the received character through comparison. If the keyword is not found as a result of the comparison, as described above, the keyword cannot be found and the received text is stored separately so that the script can be used as a reference when adding the content of the script. Keywords can be person names, places, numbers, and so on.

As described above, according to the present invention, a mobile phone user can create and store his or her own phone book using only voice, and can search and automatically make a phone call. This can increase the stability of your phone.

In addition, the storage of the phone number is made in the main server that is external to the mobile phone is not limited to the capacity to store the phone number and has the effect of preventing the damage of management information generated when the mobile phone is lost.

The features of the present invention can be operated in accordance with the language characteristics of the world, such as American English, British English, Japanese, Chinese, German as well as Korean.

Claims (9)

In the voice recognition phone number storage and guidance for mobile phones, automatic connection method, Transmitting a voice file received from the mobile phone user to a main server in a voice file on the interface device; Recognizing the voice file received from the voice recognition module of the main server and changing the text file into text; Determining, by the search module of the main server, whether the voice file means storing of a phone number or searching of a phone number; Finding a keyword in the search module of the main server by using the discourse technique; Storing the keyword in a database server in the main server when the voice file means storing a telephone number; Searching for a database server using the keyword found in the main server when the voice file means searching a telephone number; Transmitting the retrieved telephone number to the interface device by making a voice file in the main server; And converting the voice file received from the interface device into a voice and transmitting the voice file to a user. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: asking a user whether or not they want to connect to the phone number; If the user wants to make a call from the main server, The method further comprises the step of recognizing a number that is a phone number and dialing the number. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of making a phone call is performed by a method of automatically calling a corresponding person by interfacing a phone number value of a server to a PBX. Way. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of recognizing the voice file and converting the voice file into a text is performed using a Large Vocabulary Recognition (LVR) engine of LH. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of making the searched phone number into a voice file is performed using a text to speech (TTS) engine (RealSpeak) of LH. How to connect. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of making the searched phone number into a voice file is performed by using an automatic voice response system (ARS). . The method of claim 1, wherein the searching of the keyword is a discourse technique, wherein the character is compared with a script previously stored in a storage space of the main server, and a method of extracting the keyword is performed. How to store and guide a recognized phone number and how to connect automatically. The method of claim 7, wherein when the keyword cannot be extracted by comparing the text with the script, the text is stored in a storage space of the main server for adding a script. Guide, how to connect automatically. In the voice recognition phone number storage and guidance for mobile phones, automatic connection system, An interface device for making a voice file received from a mobile telephone user or a voice file; A voice recognition module for converting the voice file into a text; A database server storing telephone numbers; A search module for searching a keyword from the text to find a characteristic telephone number from the database server using a discourse technique or storing a telephone number corresponding to the text in the database server; A speech synthesis module for converting the text retrieved by the search module into a speech file; Voice recognition telephone number storage and guidance for a mobile phone, characterized in that it comprises a telephone automatic connection module for making a call to the telephone number retrieved by the search module.