KR20050052792A - Apparatus and method of text message to voice offering - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a text message voice.

According to the present invention, a user who does not have a terminal and can not check a message provided as a text message is automatically connected to a multimedia message center by using a preset number to listen to the text message received by the user. Connect the call to the answering center using a landline phone or a wireless phone, enter a user's own authentication information, perform authentication, and if the user has received a text message, the text message is voiced. By providing a service that allows you to listen to the user can provide a convenience that allows the user to check the text message, regardless of the place, without a wireless terminal.

Description

Apparatus and method of text message to voice offering}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a voice message for a text message. Particularly, when a user who has received a text message does not have a terminal and cannot check a message using the Internet, the user can use a normal wired telephone or another wireless terminal. The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a voice message of a text message, so that a voice message can be heard.

The short message service (SMS) provided by the mobile communication system transmits a counterpart number and a simple text message that the user wants to receive. The short message service receives the message from the short message center of the mobile communication system and temporarily stores it in a queue. Accordingly, the short message is transmitted to the exchange to which the receiving terminal is connected.

The exchange transmits the short message to the base station with which the cellular phone to which the short message is being communicated, and the base station transmits the short message to the target terminal using a paging channel among channels managed by the mobile station.

The terminal receiving the short message normally notifies the short message center in the reverse order of receiving the message that the normal short message has been received, and the received short message center deletes the short message stored in the queue.

In addition, if there is no response from the receiving terminal that the short message is normally received, the short message center continuously attempts to transmit the message according to the retry rule. Therefore, when the terminal is incapable of receiving a call and the short message center changes to a callable state during the retry period, the short message may be received.

In addition, the range of services is increasing from short text messages to simple text messages, long text messages to send long text messages, and multimedia message services to send voice and video text messages.

The various message service methods described above have a problem that it is impossible to check a received message unless there is a receiver's wireless terminal capable of displaying text. Accordingly, a service for allowing a user who does not have a terminal by interworking with a web page of the Internet to verify a text message received through his or her terminal through authentication on the Internet web page has been expanded.

However, despite the above-described method, there is a problem in that the user cannot check the received text message when the user does not have his or her wireless terminal and the Internet connection is difficult or when the user is in an environment where the user cannot see the message. .

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention uses a text message service provided by a mobile communication system, using a general landline telephone or another person's wireless terminal under conditions that do not have a terminal and it is difficult to check text messages over the Internet. It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for providing a voice message of a text message so that the text message can be heard by voice so that the text message service can be used anywhere.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a text message providing method is provided.

Claims [1] A method for providing a text message received by a user in a voice in a wireless communication system including a multimedia message center providing a text message and a multimedia message transmission / reception service between wireless terminals connected through a wireless network. Receiving, by the message center, a call from a user who wants to provide a voice message of a text message through an automatic response center, and receiving user's personal information; (b) searching for the text message received by the multimedia message center using the personal information received and informing the user of the result through the automatic response center; And (c) the multimedia message center converting the text message into a voice and providing the text message to the user through the automatic response center according to whether the text message is requested from the user.

In the step (a), the automatic answering center is characterized in that the user has a representative number that can connect the call using a wired telephone or a wireless terminal.

And, the personal information of step (a) is characterized in that the unique telephone number of the user wireless terminal and the password specified by the user.

In particular, in the step (c), the multimedia message center converts the text message into voice data, characterized in that it uses TTS (Text To Speech) technology.

In addition, in the step (c), when the user presets a specific voice or voice tone for voice provision of a text message, the multimedia message center converts the converted voice into a specific voice or voice tone set by the user. Converting and providing to the user.

Apparatus for providing a text message voice according to an aspect of the present invention,

An apparatus for providing text messages transmitted and received between wireless terminals, comprising: a base station for transmitting and receiving data over a wireless channel with a wireless terminal; A central control station controlling the base station; A multimedia message center connected to the central control station for temporarily storing and transmitting text messages and multimedia messages transmitted and received between the wireless terminals, and converting text messages to voice at the request of a user; And an auto-response center connected to the multimedia message center and providing automatic guidance for providing a voice of a text message to the user.

The multimedia message center may further include: a call processing server that processes a call connection from the answering machine and transmits voice data of a text message; A message storage server for storing text messages and multimedia messages transmitted and received between the wireless terminals; A multimedia conversion server for converting the multimedia message transmitted and received between the wireless terminals into a format according to the counterpart terminal; And a text-to-speech conversion server for converting the text message received by the user into voice according to the voice providing request of the text message requested through the call processing server.

The text-to-speech conversion server may include: a text-to-speech converter for converting a text message into voice data; And a voice converter for converting the voice data converted by the text-to-speech converter into a specific voice or voice tone according to a user's setting.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the accompanying drawings, parts irrelevant to the description of the present invention are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and the same or similar parts are denoted by the same reference numerals.

1 is a block diagram showing the structure of a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a mobile communication system according to the present invention includes a wireless terminal 110, a wireless network 120, a long message service center (LMSC) 130, a multimedia message service center (MMSC) 140, and an ARS center. (Auto Response Service) 150.

In this case, the ARS center 150 is connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and can be connected with a landline telephone, a representative number for connecting with a landline telephone through a public network, and the wireless terminal 110. It has a special setting number to connect with.

In addition, the wireless terminal 110 is a terminal device having a text message transmission and a multimedia message transmission function and making a call or transmitting a message through the wireless network 120.

LMSC (130) is a text message service center developed from the existing Short Message Service Center (SMSC), and adds a function for enabling the SMSC to transmit and receive a long sentence of a long sentence from being able to transmit and receive a short short message. There is a long message service center.

The MMSC 140 is a service center for transmitting / receiving a multimedia message such as a moving picture or still image, voice, etc., including a text message received from the wireless terminal 110. The text message received by the LMSC 130 is also MMSC 140. As it is transmitted to the temporary storage, it is delivered to the other party radio terminal (110).

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the MMSC 140 is connected to the ARS center 150, and has a function of converting a text message received to a subscriber of a wireless network into voice data.

The MMSC 140 will be described in more detail as follows.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a structure of the multimedia message center 140 of FIG. 1 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the MMSC 140 includes a call processing server 141, a multimedia conversion server 142, a text-to-speech server 143, and a message storage server 146. In addition, the text-to-speech server 143 includes a text-to-speech converter 144 and a voice converter 145.

The call processing server 141 performs call processing for transmitting and receiving messages and call processing from a wired telephone or a wireless terminal connected through the ARS center 150.

In addition, the multimedia conversion server 142 processes message conversion for transmitting and receiving multimedia messages, and the text-to-speech conversion server 143 performs a function of converting a text message into voice data according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In particular, the text-to-speech converter 144 converts a text message into voice data, and the voice-converter 145 sets the specific voice or voice tone that the user wants to hear. The voice data converted by 141 is converted according to user settings. In this case, the text-to-speech converter 144 may be configured in addition to the MMSC 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention. When the text-to-speech converter 144 is added to an existing mobile communication network, the text-to-speech converter 144 may be a separate server device. It is possible to connect and configure further.

In this case, the text-to-speech conversion unit 144 converts the text message into voice data may be implemented using a TTS (Text to Speech) technology, and the like, and thus the description thereof will be omitted. do.

In addition, the message storage server 146 stores text messages and multimedia messages transmitted and received by the wireless network 120.

The MMSC 140 having the above structure connects a call to the representative number (eg, 1588-0016) of the ARS center 150 through the ARS center 150, or the wireless terminal 110 When a request is made to connect a call to a special set number (for example, * 89) to provide a voice message for a user's own text message, the call processing server 141 connects the call to receive a text message received by the user from the message storage server ( 146), the text-to-speech converter 144 of the text-to-speech server 143 converts the searched text message into voice, and then transmits the voice to the ARS center 150 to the user. Allows you to listen to text messages you receive.

At this time, if the user has previously set his or her text message to be heard in a particular voice tone or a specific voice, the voice-conversion unit 145 converts the voice data converted by the text-to-speech converter 144 according to the setting. In addition, the call processing server 141 may additionally provide a service for transmitting the converted voice data to the ARS center 150 so that the user can listen to the desired voice.

Therefore, the user must subscribe to a service that provides a text message as a voice in advance, and at this time, a desired voice or voice tone should be set for each group or individual according to taste.

In addition, the above settings may be changed or set by the user using his or her own terminal, directly through the Internet site, or through a mobile communication system provider.

The voice providing method of the text message according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail as follows.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a voice in a short message according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, when the wireless terminal 110 composes and transmits a text message, the LMSC 130 receives the corresponding text message through the wireless network and delivers the text message to the MMSC 140 to the message storage server 146. To store (S301).

At this time, the stored text message is stored including the telephone number information of the receiver of the corresponding message. When the wireless terminal 110 transmits a multimedia message including a text message together with an image or music, the wireless terminal 110 classifies and stores the image or music data of the corresponding multimedia message and the text message portion, respectively, and stores the table. The receiver side phone number information of the multimedia message is also included and stored in a table in the message storage server 146.

When a user using a wireless communication service wants to check a message received to him or her, there is currently no wireless terminal (S302), and if it is difficult to check a text message using an Internet site (S304), a text message received to the user In order to check whether there is a text message of the contents, a call is connected to the ARS center 150 using a wired telephone or a wireless terminal of another person (S306).

At this time, the ARS center 150 as described above, the wired telephone can be connected to the representative number-for example, 1588-0016-, the wireless terminal can be connected to a special set number-for example * 98-.

When the call is connected to the ARS center 150, the call processing server 141 of the MMSC 140 is connected, and the ARS center 150 inputs an authentication number to check whether there is a received text message to the connected user. Requires. At this time, the authentication number can be used by setting the user's wireless terminal phone number and password.

When the user inputs the authentication number (S307), the ARS center 150 transmits the user authentication number information to the call processing server 141, and the call processing server 141 uses the received user authentication number to store the message. Search (146) to check whether there is a text message received by the user (S308), and guides the search result to the user through the ARS center 150.

When the user listens to the voice guidance and receives the text message, if the user selects to listen to the text message (S309), the ARS center 150 sends the text message received to the user to the call processing server 141. The voice message, the call processing server 141 causes the text-to-speech server 143 to convert the text message to voice, and then transfers the converted voice to the ARS center 150 so that the user To be heard (S310).

In addition, if the user has set a specific voice tone or voice for a service for providing a text message by voice, voice data converted by the text-to-speech conversion unit 144 of the text-to-speech conversion server 143 is voiced. The call processing server 141 transfers the converted data into the voice set by the conversion unit 145 to the ARS center 150.

As described above, in the situation where the user does not have his own wireless terminal and cannot check the text message through the Internet, the user makes an ARS connection using a normal landline phone or another person's wireless phone and listens to the short message received by the user by voice. So you can check short messages regardless of the location or situation.

Although a preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above, the present invention is not limited thereto, and various other changes and modifications are possible.

As described above, the apparatus and method for providing a short message voice according to the present invention does not have a user's own terminal for receiving a short message, and even if it is difficult to check the short message over the Internet, By using a short message received by the user can be confirmed by voice has the effect of providing a variety of services to the user.

1 is a block diagram showing the structure of a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a structure of a multimedia message service center of FIG. 1 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a voice of a text message according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (8)

Claims [1] A method for providing a text message received by a user in a wireless communication system including a multimedia message center providing a text message and a multimedia message transmission / reception service between wireless terminals connected through a wireless network. (a) receiving, by the multimedia message center, a call from a user who wants to provide a voice message of a text message through an automatic response center, and receiving user's personal information; (b) searching for the text message received by the multimedia message center using the personal information received and informing the user of the result through the automatic response center; And (c) the multimedia message center converting the text message into a voice and providing the text message to the user through the automatic response center according to whether the text message is requested from the user. Voice providing method of a text message comprising a. The method of claim 1, In the step (a), The automatic answering center is a method for providing a voice message of a text message, characterized in that the user connects the call to a representative number of the corresponding automatic answering center set in advance by using a wired telephone or a wireless terminal. The method of claim 1, The personal information of step (a), The method of providing a voice message for a text message, characterized in that the user's wireless terminal unique number and the password specified by the user. The method of claim 1, In the step (c), the multimedia message center converts the corresponding text message into voice data, using a text to speech (TTS) technology. The method of claim 1, In the step (c), If the user presets a specific voice or voice tone for voice provision of a text message, the multimedia message center converts the converted voice into a specific voice or voice tone set by the user and provides the same to the user. Voice providing method of text messages further comprising. In the device for providing a text message transmitted and received between the wireless terminal by voice, A base station for transmitting and receiving data through a wireless channel with a wireless terminal; A central control station controlling the base station; A multimedia message center connected to the central control station for temporarily storing and transmitting text messages and multimedia messages transmitted and received between the wireless terminals, and converting text messages to voice at the request of a user; And An automatic response center connected to the multimedia message center and providing automatic guidance for providing a text message to the user. Voice providing apparatus for a text message comprising a. The method of claim 6, The multimedia message center, A call processing server which processes a call connection from the answering machine and transmits voice data of a text message; A message storage server for storing text messages and multimedia messages transmitted and received between the wireless terminals; A multimedia conversion server for converting the multimedia message transmitted and received between the wireless terminals into a format according to the counterpart terminal; And Text-to-speech conversion server for converting a text message received by the user into a voice according to the voice providing request of the text message requested through the call processing server Voice providing apparatus for a text message comprising a. The method of claim 7, wherein The text-to-speech server, A text-to-speech converter for converting a text message into voice data; And A voice converter for converting the voice data converted by the text-to-speech converter to a specific voice or voice tone according to the user's setting Voice providing apparatus for a text message comprising a.