KR20030092877A - Method and Device for providing menu in mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for transmitting a message by using a mobile communication network is provided to transmit a text message having high frequency by using a voice message, thereby enabling a transmitting terminal to conveniently transmit the message, and enabling a receiving terminal to easily receive the message. CONSTITUTION: A voice message management server receives a transmission request signal from a transmitting terminal(300), and transmits a voice information request signal to the transmitting terminal(305). The terminal transmits a user's voice information to the server by using a mobile communication network in real time(310). The server stores the voice information in a voice mail box(313). The server decides whether the message transmission request signal is a text message request signal(315). If so, the server recognizes the received voice information, and converts the voice information into text(325). The server transmits a text message generation request signal including text information to a message service center(330). The center transmits a generated message to a receiving terminal(335). The receiving terminal displays a message informing of voice message arrival on a display, or displays a text message(340).

Description

Method and system for transmitting message using mobile communication network {Method and Device for providing menu in mobile terminal}

The present invention relates to a method and system for transmitting a message using a mobile communication network, and more particularly, to a method and a system for transmitting a text message with a high frequency of use as much as a voice call using a voice message.

Currently, a method of transmitting a message to a counterpart in a position where a user cannot receive a call includes a text message method and a voice message method.

The text message method may be represented by a short message service. The short message service refers to a text service that allows mobile phone users to exchange short sentences of about 40 characters without additional equipment.

If the voice message method can be represented by a voice mail service, the voice mail service makes a call and finds the other party, but if necessary, stores the necessary voice content and then listens when the other party can answer the call. Refers to a service.

However, both the text message method and the voice message method have the following inconveniences.

In the case of the text message method, the receiving terminal can check the message without any input procedure, but there is an inconvenience in that the transmitting terminal must input the text message to be transmitted through the keypad.

Moreover, there is a problem in that a large amount of time is spent inputting a content to be transmitted using a keypad instead of a keyboard.

In addition, since the text message is limited to about 80 bytes, there is a problem in that it is not suitable for transmitting all of the long content.

Recently, with the development of mobile terminal and wireless network, the short message service is limited to only 80 bytes and can be transmitted. However, the long text message service that can transmit text without restriction is available. There is a problem that takes a lot of time.

On the other hand, in the case of a voice message service, there is an advantage in that the transmitting terminal simply transmits without a keypad input procedure. However, in the receiving terminal, the receiver needs to access and listen to the voice mailbox server.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and provides a method and a system in which a transmitting terminal can conveniently transmit a message, and a receiving terminal can also conveniently receive a message.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a method and system capable of receiving a voice message transmitted from a transmitting terminal as a text message at the receiving terminal.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a method and system capable of receiving a message in a text message format at a receiving terminal without inputting a text using a keypad.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a method and system capable of transmitting a long text message beyond the limit of 40 bytes.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for transmitting a message by dividing it into a short message service or a long message service corresponding to its length in a text message.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for recognizing a voice in a voice message and transmitting the recognized voice in a text message.

Also. An object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for applying voice recognition to a voice message service, which is rapidly expanding in recent years.

1 is a diagram showing the overall system configuration according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a module of a voice message management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating a transmission and reception procedure between a terminal and a voice message management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a voice recognition procedure of the voice message management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a view showing a user interface screen for providing a message service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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100: terminal

105: base station

110: base station controller

115: PS diene

120: mobile exchange

135: voice message management server

140: Long Message Service Center

145: Short Message Service Center

According to an aspect of the present invention to achieve the above object, in a method for providing a message service in a voice message management server coupled to a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal, receiving a message transmission request signal from the transmitting terminal Transmitting the voice information request signal to the transmitting terminal, receiving the voice information from the transmitting terminal, storing the voice information, and the incoming call corresponding to the receiving terminal from the transmitting terminal. Receiving a number, converting the voice information into text information and transmitting the text message transmission request signal to a message service center, wherein the text information request signal corresponds to text information and a receiving terminal. Including a number, wherein the message service center is It is possible to provide a method and system for transmitting a text message corresponding to text to the receiving terminal.

The converting the voice information into the text information may include extracting the stored voice, detecting only the voice from the voice information, extracting a feature of the voice from the extracted voice, and performing a preset voice recognition algorithm. The method may further include recognizing a voice.

In addition, the preset recognition algorithm may be any one of DTW, HMM, and ANN, and the step of transmitting to the message service center may include determining the size of the converted text, and a message service center corresponding to the text size. The method may further include transmitting a message generation request signal including the text information.

Further, if the text is less than a preset size, the text may be transmitted to the short message service center. If the text is greater than or equal to the preset size, the text may be transmitted to the long message service center.

The preset size may be 80 bytes or 160 bytes.

The present invention may further include receiving a voice information request signal from the receiving terminal, extracting voice information corresponding to the receiving terminal, and transmitting the voice information to the receiving terminal. have.

Hereinafter, an advertisement providing method based on location information according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram showing the overall system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a voice message management server according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a terminal 100, a base station system (BTS) 105, a base station controller (BSC) 110, and a mobile station. It is associated with a mobile switching center (MSC) 120 and a public data switched network (PDSN) 115.

The voice message management server 130 according to the present invention may transmit a signal using a circuit data method and a packet data method.

In the case of connection by packet network, voice information transmitted from the terminal 100 is transmitted to a base station (BTS) base station (BTS), a base station controller (BSC) 110, and a PDN using a mobile communication network. The voice message management server 135 may be connected via a public data switched network (PDSN) 115.

And, in the case of a connection through a circuit network, voice information transmitted from the terminal 100 is transmitted using a base station system (BTS), a base station controller (BSC) 110, and a mobile communication network. The voice message management server 135 may be connected via a mobile switching center (MSC) 120.

Here, the base station (BTS) 505 connects the portable communication terminal 500 to the mobile switching center (MSC) 515 and performs a function of the extension. The base station (BTS) System) 505 may include a transceiver, an antenna, a control device, a data terminal and a power supply.

The base station controller (BSC) manages a plurality of base stations (BTSs) connected to the base station controller (BSC).

In the method of transmitting voice information through the terminal 500, it is a mobile switching center (MSC) and PDSN (PDSN) that serves as a switch in the public network.

A mobile switching center (MSC) is composed of a control unit, a call unit and peripherals, and can also collect billing data after the call is completed.

PDSN (Public Data S 0work) is a core component of the DCN (Data Core Network), a system that provides packet data services to mobile subscribers, and the RAN (Radio Access Network) corresponding to the wireless network connection between the DCN and DCN. Through the interworking, the wireless signal can be connected to the IP network.

The voice message management server 135 may perform an STT (SPEECH TO TEXT) function.

Estee (STT, SPEECH TO TEXT) is a function that converts voice information into text. That is, the STT (SPEECH TO TEXT) refers to the conversion of the content spoken by a person into a text.

The voice message management server 135 according to the present invention may perform a voice mail service function together with a voice recognition function.

A voice mail service (VMS) is a service that is frequently used in situations where subscribers cannot answer a call, i.e., during a call, when the power is turned off, or when a call is not available. That is, when a caller leaves a voice message, the caller immediately informs the subscriber that there is a voice message in the voice mailbox, so that the service can listen to the voice message of the recorded counterpart.

The voice message management server 135 may digitalize the voice message input by the microphone and record the data in the voice mailbox, and then inversely convert the message into analog voice and provide the same to the terminal 100.

In addition, the voice message management server 135 may recognize voice data stored in the voice mailbox in real time, convert the recognized voice data into text, and transmit the received voice data to a receiving terminal.

2 is a diagram illustrating a module of a voice message management server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The voice message management server according to the present invention may include a voice recognition module 200, a text generation module 210, a text size determination module 220, a voice mail mailbox module 230, and the like.

Of course, the voice message management server includes a transmission module, a reception module, a storage module, etc., but a description of a module that performs the basic function will be omitted.

The voice recognition module 200 performs a function of recognizing a voice received from the terminal. According to the present invention, the voice signal can be received via PDN or mobile exchange.

The speech recognition performed by the speech recognition module 200 will be described.

Speech recognition refers to identifying linguistic semantic content from speech by automatic means. Specifically, the process of identifying a word or a word sequence and extracting meanings using a speech waveform may be classified into five types: speech analysis, phoneme recognition, word recognition, sentence interpretation, and meaning extraction.

The voice recognition device that required a large device has been able to be realized on an integrated circuit of several millimeters in width by the development of a large scale integrated circuit (LSI), and the voice message management server according to the present invention includes the voice recognition chip. .

The text generation module 210 converts voice data into text using the information recognized by the voice recognition module 200.

The text size determination module 220 determines the size of the text generated by the text generation module 210. The voice message management server according to the present invention transmits the message converted into the text (hereinafter referred to as a text message) to the long message service center by using the determination result of the text size determination module 220 or short message. Determines whether to send a message to the service center.

That is, the voice message management server transmits the text message to the long message service center when the text message size is 80 bytes or more, and transmits the text message to the short message service center when the text message size is less than 80 bytes.

Also. The voice message management server according to the present invention may perform a voice mailbox function.

The terminal may determine whether to transmit the user's voice signal in a text message or a voice message using a voice mailbox.

When the voice mail module 230 transmits the voice message, the voice mail module 230 stores the voice message of the user, and thereafter, performs a function of providing the voice message when the receiving terminal requests the voice message by accessing the voice message management server. Can be.

3 is a diagram illustrating a transmission and reception procedure between a terminal and a voice message management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The voice message management server according to the present invention may store the voice information received from the transmitting terminal, and then provide the voice information to the receiving terminal as a voice message or a text message.

In the present invention, the text message includes a short message and a long message.

The division criteria of the short message and the long message are divided based on a preset byte size. In one embodiment of the present invention, the division criteria may be 80 bytes or 100 bytes.

However, when the GSM system is used as the mobile communication network, the division criteria is preferably 160 bytes.

Hereinafter, a transmission and reception procedure between the terminal and the voice message management server will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

In operation 300, the voice message management server receives a message transmission request signal from the terminal.

The message request signal may include a receiver side identifier. The receiver identifier refers to the telephone number of the receiver terminal.

Of course, the receiver may be configured to transmit the receiver identifier in a separate transmission procedure without transmitting the message request signal as a receiver identifier.

In step 305, the voice message management server transmits a voice information request signal to the transmitting terminal.

In step 310, the terminal transmits voice information of the terminal user to the voice message management server using only mobile communication in real time.

In step 313, the voice message management server stores the voice information in a voice mailbox.

In operation 315, the voice message management server determines whether the message transmission request signal is a voice message request signal or a text message request signal.

If the message request signal is a voice message request signal, the voice message management server generates a voice message arrival signal corresponding to the voice information in step 320, and transmits the voice message arrival signal to a receiving terminal in step 335.

As a result of the determination in step 315, if the message request signal is a text message request signal, in step 325, the received voice information is recognized, and the voice information is converted into text using the recognized result.

In operation 330, a text message generation request signal including the text information is transmitted to a message service center.

In the present invention, the message service center includes a short message service center and a long message service center.

The voice message management server transmits a text message generation request signal to a long message service center when the text message size is 80 bytes or more, and transmits a text message service request signal to the short message service center when the text message size is less than 80 bytes. do.

In operation 335, the message service center coupled to the voice message management server transmits the message generated corresponding to the message generation request signal to the receiving terminal.

In operation 340, the receiving terminal displays a message indicating the arrival of the voice message corresponding to the voice message arrival signal on the display device of the receiving terminal, or displays the text message on the display device of the receiving terminal.

Hereinafter, a function for converting the voice message into a text message will be referred to as a message conversion function, and a function for storing the voice message in a mailbox will be referred to as a message mailbox function.

Through the steps 300 to 340, the voice message management server according to the present invention may perform a voice mailbox function and a message conversion function.

In FIG. 3, the voice mailbox function and the message conversion function are alternatively provided. However, the voice mailbox function and the message conversion function may be provided in duplicate.

That is, when the receiver terminal receiving the text message requests voice information corresponding to the text message, the voice information may be extracted and provided to the receiver terminal.

Hereinafter, the speech recognition function according to the message conversion function according to the present invention will be described.

4 is a diagram illustrating a voice recognition technology according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Speech recognition refers to extracting a feature from a given speech signal, applying a pattern recognition algorithm to it, and back-tracking which phoneme sequence the speaker generates.

According to the present invention, the voice recognition is performed using a voice recognition chip included in the voice message management server.

Nature's voice signal is a physical analog signal that originates in human vocal cords, propagates through air, and is recognized through human auditory organs. However, automatic speech recognition (ASR) using a computer refers to a method of converting an electrical signal input through a microphone into a digital signal using an analog-to-digital converter (AD Converter).

Therefore, the audio signal sampled by the analog-to-digital converter is a large amount of numerical data obtained by measuring the sound intensity every unit time, and generally uses 16-bit representation for 16KHz sampling. In this case, the one second audio signal is represented by 256000 bit strings.

The voice recognition chip of the voice message management server according to the present invention converts the digital voice signal into a feature vector suitable for the purpose by digital signal processing.

The speech recognition chip used in the present invention can be converted into a feature vector using filter-banks, linear predictive coding, and EIH (Ensemble Interval Histogram).

The filter bank is a method of coding a speech using an array of bandpass filters having different pass frequencies in consideration of the fact that the vestibular nerve in the human ear responds to the energy intensity for each frequency band of the voice signal coming into the ear. .

The linear prediction is mainly used for continuous speech recognition in combination with HMM, and finally, EIH model coding performs speech processing after performing complex processing by modeling the acoustic membrane more precisely unlike filter banks. .

Hereinafter, a function of the voice recognition chip of the voice message management server according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

In step 400, the voice message management server extracts the voice stored in the voice mailbox. The voice mailbox stores voice information as digital data.

In step 405, the voice message management server detects only voice. The speech detection step is a part that greatly affects the performance of speech recognition, and detects only speech from the extracted speech information.

In step 410, the voice message management server extracts only voice features. The speech feature extraction step is to find a filter coefficient by modeling human speech organs.

In step 415, the voice message management server extracts a feature vector by performing a recognition algorithm. The recognition algorithm should be an algorithm capable of modeling time-varying characteristics of speech, and actual speech recognition will be performed using the algorithm.

As the algorithm, DTW, HMM, ANN, or the like can be used.

In step 420, the voice message management server determines voice recognition or misrecognition based on the result obtained by using the voice recognition algorithm of step 415.

If the voice is successfully recognized, in step 420, the voice message management server converts the recognized voice information into text.

In step 430, the size of the text is determined.

If the text size is greater than or equal to a predetermined size in step 435, the text information is transmitted to a palm message service center.

If the text size is less than a predetermined size in step 440, the text information is transmitted to the short message service center.

The voice message management server transmits a text message generation request signal to the long message service center when the text message size is 80 bytes or more, and transmits a text message service request signal to the short message service center when the text message size is less than 80 bytes. Can be.

Through the above steps, the text message switching function of the voice message according to the present invention can be achieved.

5 is a diagram illustrating a user interface screen providing a message conversion function according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

When the message sending button is pressed, a screen such as step 500 is displayed.

If an outgoing message is selected in step 510, a screen as in step 510 may be displayed.

According to the present invention, the message may be divided into a text message and a voice message.

A text message refers to a service for a user to create a text message through an input of a keypad, and a voice message refers to a text message to be written through a voice.

In step 510, when the voice message creation button is pressed, the voice message management server according to the present invention may be accessed and the voice message may be recorded.

In step 520, the other party's number is entered.

The voice message management server may convert the message into text and transmit the short message converted into text to a terminal corresponding to the counterpart number.

As described above, according to the present invention, there is an effect that the transmitting terminal can conveniently transmit the message, and the receiving terminal can also conveniently receive the message.

It is also an object of the present invention to receive a voice message transmitted from a transmitting terminal as a text message at the receiving terminal.

It is also an object of the present invention to receive a message in the form of a text message at a receiving terminal without inputting a text using a keypad.

It is also an object of the present invention to send a long text message beyond the limit of 40 bytes.

In addition, an object of the present invention has the effect of transmitting a message divided into a short message service or a long message service corresponding to the length in a text message.

It is also an object of the present invention to recognize the voice of a voice message and to transmit the recognized voice in a text message.

Also. Another object of the present invention is to apply voice recognition, which is rapidly expanding in recent years, to voice message services.

Although the above has been described with reference to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as set forth in the claims below It will be appreciated that modifications and variations can be made.

Claims (11)

A method for providing a message service in a voice message management server in combination with a sending terminal, a receiving terminal, and a message service center, Receiving a message transmission request signal from the transmitting terminal Transmitting a voice information request signal to the transmitting terminal Receiving voice information from the transmitting terminal; Storing the voice information; Receiving an incoming telephone number corresponding to a receiving terminal from the transmitting terminal; Converting the voice information into text information; And Transmitting a text message generation request signal to the message service center, wherein the message generation request signal includes text information and a telephone number corresponding to a receiving terminal; Including, The message service center transmits a text message corresponding to text information to the receiving terminal. The method of claim 1, Converting the voice information into text information Extracting the stored voice information; Detecting only a voice from the extracted voice information; Extracting a feature of a voice from the detected voice; Recognizing speech using a preset speech recognition algorithm; And Converting the speech information into text information using the speech recognition result Characterized in that comprises a The method of claim 2, The preset speech recognition algorithm is any one of DTW, HMM and ANN. The method of claim 1, Transmitting a text message generation request signal to the message service center; Determining a size of the converted text information; Transmitting the message generation request signal to a message service center corresponding to the size of the text information; Message service providing method comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein And transmitting the message generation request signal to a short message service center when the text information is smaller than a preset size. The method of claim 4, wherein And transmitting the message generation request signal to a palm message service center if the text information is equal to or larger than a preset size. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The preset size is Message service providing method, characterized in that 80 bytes. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The preset size is Message service providing method, characterized in that 100 bytes. The method according to claim 5 or 6, The preset size is Message service providing method, characterized in that 160 bytes. The method of claim 1, Receiving a voice information request signal from the receiving terminal; Extracting voice information corresponding to the receiving terminal; And Transmitting the voice information to the receiving terminal Message service providing method further comprises. A memory in which a program is stored; And A processor coupled to the memory to execute the program; The processor is a message service providing system characterized in that for executing the message service providing method described in any one of claims 1 to 10 by the program.