KR20010011217A - method of sending e-mail using telephone and voice recognition technology - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An electronic mail sending method using voice recognition technique is provided to forward a voice e-mail to a recipient by use of an Internet web server and an ARS system during moving or at the exterior. CONSTITUTION: The method is described which comprises connecting to an e-mail service using a telephone(ST1). User's identity is confirmed(ST2). An e-mail address is inputted by the voice of a transmitter at a telephone connection service. After a desired voice message is recorded(ST3), the recorded voice message is converted into a computer voice file at a web server(ST6). The computer voice file stored in the web server is forwarded to a recipient by a voice(ST7).

Description

Method of sending e-mail using telephone and voice recognition technology

The present invention relates to a method for sending an e-mail, and more particularly, to a method for sending a voice mail to an e-mail address of a recipient to be sent using a dial-up service.

Generally, a letter has been used in the past to convey a message to the other party. However, in order to deliver the news in the letter, at least two days were required after shipment.

In recent years, with the emergence of the new concept of the Internet, which virtually connects the world, great changes have been made in the way mail is sent.

This is what is called the world wide web (WWW), the world wide computer network. The concept of WWW was in earnest in the late 80's, and rapidly spread around the world in just four to five years.

In other words, by distributing computers distributed around the world into one, it is possible to create a single virtual mail network that uses each computer as an individual mailbox and communicate with each other.

The reason why computers can be used as a single mail network as described above is that many computers connected to the Internet each have a unique IP address (IP).

In addition, since the user using each computer also has a personal Internet mail address (e-mail address), it is possible to selectively send e-mails to individuals around the world.

In particular, at least one e-mail address currently exists by an individual.

In addition, since the Internet can exclude local temporal specificity, the receiver can recognize the content and retrieve the received content at the moment of sending the specific content to the receiver using the Internet.

Thus, it is now rapidly spreading to the world's population.

However, the above-described computer-based e-mail transmission method cannot transmit documents or other forms of voice in a place where a computer cannot be used.

That is, it was not possible to send the e-mail while traveling or for other reasons without a computer.

As a solution to the above problems, there is currently a service that can send a text message using a telephone.

In the method of transmitting a text message using a telephone, a user calls a message to be transmitted to an operator through a telephone. Accordingly, the operator types a message transmitted by the user and uses a personal computer such as a personal computer. I send it in the form of a text to an arbitrary e-mail address that I have agreed to.

However, since the e-mail transmission method through the operator has to go through the operator, personal privacy may be exposed.

In addition, there is a fear that the contents which the user wants to send are wrongly transmitted by the operator.

In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for freely sending an Internet e-mail to a recipient even in the absence of a computer.

1 is a flow chart illustrating an e-mail sending method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for sending an e-mail addressed to a receiver's e-mail address using a voice recognition technology, a dial-up service, and an internet mail server interworking with the dial-up service. The sender accessing the dial-up service; Inputting an e-mail address of a receiver in a voice of a sender in the dial-up service; Recording the voice message that the sender wants to send, and simultaneously converting the recorded voice message into a general purpose computer voice file in a web server; Disclosed is a method for sending an e-mail using a telephone and a voice recognition technology, comprising sending a general computer voice file stored in the web server to a recipient who has a voice input from the web server.

In particular, the invention is preferably characterized by the use of telephone mailboxes, for example 700 services, which are currently widely used and provided by telephone stations. In addition, an automatic answering system (ARS) may be used.

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

1 is a flowchart illustrating an e-mail transmission method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the biggest feature of the present invention is to register an e-mail address of a receiver using voice recognition technology through a telephone and send a message to the recipient. To record the voice, and to send the recorded voice to the receiver.

The voice recognition technology using the telephone is currently being researched and is being applied in the domestic auto securities information service as a pilot.

The voice recognition technology is a method of registering the name of a listed domestic company in advance in the automatic securities guide service and learning it, thereby automatically guiding the stock market of a company to obtain information according to the user's voice.

In the present invention, a method of recognizing a recipient's e-mail address by registering a specific character in a dial-up service in advance and combining the same as in the automatic securities guide service.

That is, the specific character registers the English alphabet used as an e-mail address, and @,. (Do: dot), etc. in advance.

In addition, in order to recognize the voice intonation of the various users, the dial-up service to learn the specific character.

First, in step ST1, when a user needs to send an e-mail in a place where there is no computer, the user first accesses a predetermined dial-up service using a telephone.

The dial-up service may be, for example, a telephone mailbox 700 service or an ARS.

After accessing the dial-up service, in step ST2, a guide voice recorded in the dial-up service is output in advance, and the recipient's e-mail address is input.

Input of the recipient's e-mail address is made directly by the sender and consists of a combination of specific characters registered in advance in the dial-up service.

For example, if the recipient's email address is cskim@tftlcd.kyunghee.ac.kr, the sender registers a specific character as a voice. That is, Mr, S, K, I, M, At, T, F, T, L, Mr, D, Dot, K, Y, U, Y, M, H, Lee, Lee, Dot ), A, C, Dot, K, Egg, etc., enter the recipient's email address in order.

The e-mail address of the receiver entered as described above is automatically guided to the recognized e-mail address of the recognized recipient in order to confirm the e-mail address for the verification process, and re-enter if the registration is incorrect. In addition, if there are two or more receivers to send a message, the above step ST2 is repeated.

The e-mail address of the voice registered recipient is converted into a text file.

As described above, a technique of confirming the sender by voice again through the letter combination is a language input by the sender by a TTL.

In addition, voice recording is performed in step ST3 according to the voice guidance of step ST2. That is, the voice recording is made through the handset of the telephone, and the method is similar to the voice recording method of the personal pager.

The recorded voice file is stored in a telephone mailbox or an ARS server of the dial-up service, and the voice file becomes a digitalized VOX file.

Thereafter, the VOX file stored in the telephone mailbox or the ARS server is converted into a WAV file in step ST4. The VOX file is a file that can be stored and read through any specific hardware or software. Preferably, the VOX file should be converted to a WAV file for general use. The conversion of the VOX file into a WAV file takes place simultaneously with recording.

Here, when the VOX file is recorded for the first time, it may be replaced with a WAV file that is a general file.

When the ST4 step is completed, in the ST5 step, the recorded voice file may be transmitted to an email address of a receiver that has previously recognized voice.

Then, when the step ST5 is completed, the recipient's e-mail address and the recorded and converted WAV file are moved to a web server, and the web server is converted into a voice file having a predetermined format. .

Since the WAV file converted in step ST4 is too large, the WAV file is converted into a smaller file in the web server in step ST6. For example, assuming that voice recording is performed for about 1 minute, the size of the WAV file converted in step ST4 is several tens of megabytes (Mb).

If it is several tens of Mb to send a voice of about 1 minute to the receiver as described above, it will take a considerable time to transmit the voice file, and the receiver will also take a lot of time to confirm it.

Therefore, the WAV file must be converted into a small file. For example, an RA file in a real audio format capable of transmitting and reproducing voice in real time may be an example.

The melted voice converted into a small file in the web server is sent from the web server to the e-mail address of the voice recognized recipient in step ST2. The e-mail sending time may be sent immediately after recording, or may be sent at a time determined by the sender (ST7).

Finally, the recipient retrieves the voiced e-mail delivered to him through the personal computer in step ST8. If the voice file converted in step ST6 is a file in RA format, it can be played through software called real audio.

As described above, if the voice recorded using the telephone is sent to the receiver by e-mail, the user can send more elaborate contents, the sender's identity can be confirmed, and the recipient's e-mail address through voice recognition. You will be able to register it.

In addition, since telephones are established in mountain wallpaper or remote areas where computers are not widely used, anyone can send an e-mail using a telephone.

And, it may be possible to check the voicemail received by the user. That is, the user's own e-mail address and password can be confirmed by voice, and if there is a received message, it can be confirmed.

For example, using voice recognition technology, an additional service may be provided using the reverse order of sending voice e-mail or using the technology.

The method of sending an e-mail using a telephone according to the embodiment of the present invention described above has an advantage of sending a voiced e-mail using a telephone (including a mobile phone) in a mobile or other situation without a computer.

In addition, by recognizing the e-mail address of the recipient by voice, there is an advantage that anyone can send a message containing the sender's voice automatically to the person to send.

Claims (5)

An e-mail sending method for sending a sender's voiced message to an e-mail address using a voice recognition technology, a dial-up service, and an internet mail server interworking with the dial-up service, The sender accessing the dial-up service; Inputting an e-mail address of a receiver in a voice of a sender in the dial-up service; Recording the voice message that the sender wants to send, and simultaneously converting the recorded voice message into a general purpose computer voice file in a web server; Mailing the general computer voice file stored in the web server from the web server to a recipient inputted by the sender by voice; E-mail sending method using a phone and voice recognition technology comprising a. The method according to claim 1, The step of inputting the recipient's e-mail address includes a telephone and voice recognition technology further comprising the sender inputting the recipient's e-mail address by voice and texturing the entered e-mail address in the dial-up service. How to send e-mail. The method according to claim 1, Mail sending through the web server is an email sending method using a telephone that is sent at a time determined by the sender. The method according to claim 1, The dial-up service is an electronic mail sending method using an automatic answering system (ARS) telephone. The method according to claim 1, The dial-up service is an e-mail sending method using a telephone that is a telephone mailbox.