RU2713874C2 - Mobile voice information device - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to computer engineering. Technical result is achieved due to mobile voice information device intended for simultaneous translation and sounding of voice information from one language to another from different sources and containing: microcomputer with WI-FI and Bluetooth modules and peripheral interfaces, controlled by voice commands through voice virtual assistant and configured to obtain information from external sources and connected to an output speaker configured to receive voice information, connected to a microphone comprising a bone conduction microphone and configured to receive spoken speech voices, wherein the microcomputer, through built-in WI-FI and Bluetooth modules, is configured to find the desired music, or news, or background information from the Internet through standard communication with a personal mobile phone, provide its translation and voice to user through microphone of bone conductivity in background mode.

EFFECT: technical result is broader technical means for simultaneous translation and voice recognition of voice information from one language to another from different sources.

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Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates to the field of mobile voice language translators.

Existing Russian inventions and foreign patents do not consider mobile information devices, but improve voice language translators.

The proposed information device is a personal mobile information device that solves the problem of not only voice translation, but also a number of other important consumer functions of the user.

State of the art

From the prior art it is known device voice language translation described in the invention RU 2016 138 166 publ. 01/10/2017 IPC G06F 17/28 (2006.01).

The proposed device differs from the proposed invention in that the device has a number of distinctive features:

- use of the device for voice dialogue of the user with the interlocutor in different languages in the absence of additional devices in the latter.

- the proposed device works from a microcomputer, which allows to expand its communication and consumer capabilities, and does not require a smartphone, iPhone and tablet computer to perform its functions.

Closest to the claimed technical solution is the device voice translator languages, which are reflected in patent US 2017/0039866 A1 publ. 02.09.2017 Int. C1 G09B 5/049 (2006.01) G06F 17/28 (2006.01).

The proposed device differs from the patent:

- the presence of synchronous scoring of the translated user response into the language of the interlocutor;

- the lack of a touch screen, since the proposed device is controlled by a software voice virtual assistant;

- the presence of a microcomputer, which allows you to use it with Bluetooth and WI-FI to increase its user capabilities.

Disclosure of Invention

Mobile voice information device is a personal mobile information complex, which, in addition to voice language translation in synchronous colloquial and visual modes, is able to provide the user with reference information from the Internet via WI-FI, and other user devices with built-in Bluetooth.

The proposed device includes: a microcomputer with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (Fig. 1, position 2) and peripheral interfaces; headphones with bone conduction sound technology (FIG. 1, item 12); standard microphones (Fig. 1, items 3 and 7); photo camera (Fig. 1, item 9); output speaker (Fig. 1, item 8); connectors for micro USB (Fig. 1, item 4); micro SD (Fig. 1, item 5); battery (Fig. 1, item 1).

The micro USB interface allows you to charge the device’s battery, upgrade the operating systems installed on the microcomputer, install programs, and communicate with external devices.

The micro SD interface allows you to work with additional databases, to increase the amount of RAM memory by USB flash drives.

The installed language translation programs on the microcomputer of the device, perceiving the input voice signals of spoken speech through the microphone, automatically determine the language and synchronously voice the translation into the user's native language into the headphone.

The use of bone conduction microphone headset in the device allows the user to pronounce the voice response in their native language in the silent response mode. The device, through this headset, receiving a voice speech signal from the user, programmatically translates it into the interlocutor’s language and reads the translation through the speaker built into the device, which increases the volume of the user's response, eliminates the discomfort of speaking the user in the native language and voicing the translation by a computer translator .

For a comfortable dialogue with the interlocutor, the built-in voice in the used translator programs can be further programmatically tuned to the user's timbre, which allows him to be identified as a specific person.

Adjusting the parameters of the output voice from the device’s speaker is possible both in automatic mode and in manual mode using a USB device to configure an embedded program that synthesizes the output sound.

Through standard microphones, the device perceives colloquial speech for translation both from the interlocutor and in the background from the user's environment, which creates the effect of being in an unfamiliar language environment - for example, in crowded places.

The device, using a photo camera, carries out a language translation from visual textual photo information (for example, translating street signs, billboards, advertisements, etc. for tourists) and programmatically voices it to the user.

The device allows for real-time language translation of the voice acting of the film industry products - films. The voice language translation when watching movies for the user is carried out synchronously using the translator program.

The device can be used as it as a training device.

Perform a reference function with specialized language dictionaries on the Internet, for example, when talking with specialists in specialized topics.

The device is controlled by the user with the help of voice commands through the voice program virtual assistant assistant, which is installed under the specific operating system used on the microcomputer.

Currently, in the computer market, a software assistant-assistant is present both in Russian and English-speaking users and is intended for voice control in dialogue with the user of various software applications that are installed on the microcomputer of the device.

In the dialogue mode with the user, it allows, using the Wi-Fi module, to receive help from the Internet with help voice information from help sites, both during direct conversation and in the background, to find the sound information required by the user via Wi-Fi (specific music compositions, news radio programs with simultaneous translation in various languages.

The built-in Bluetooth module in the microcomputer of the device allows you to receive information from any gadgets of medical, sports and special purposes, such as a radiation dosimeter, and to voice it with a voice assistant program assistant.

The device via the Bluetooth module is also capable of performing standard communication with a personal mobile phone for radio communication.

The microcomputer of the device allows you to connect external sources, change software, update databases, and increase RAM.

The device works both offline and online.

Description of drawings

In the drawing of FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a microcomputer of the device used in the example of the proposed device.

The device is equipped with a microcomputer such as Intel Edison or Onion Omega on Windows, Os X operating systems, a microphone headset, a photo camera with video shooting function, a speaker, a battery.

The implementation of the invention

Based on the proposed personal mobile information device, an example of its application is proposed (Fig. 1).

Microcomputers are used on Windows, Os X operating systems. An example is the use of Intel Edison or Onion Omega microcomputers.

The software computer market offers, on a paid and free basis, a number of language translator programs, virtual assistant programs, translation programs from photo and video material, and search programs.

For each operating system in the computer market has developed its own software for voice applications.

The presence of a Bluetooth module in modern medical, sports and special-purpose gadgets allows the device to read and sound information from them, reading them from the user.

The bone-conduction microphone headset (key 12) is solved by FORBAIN and Aftershokz technologies.

In the proposed example of the device, a flat battery is used, which is located between the minicomputer and the head, which serves as radiation protection for the user when the device is operated with the WI-FI module.

The development of computer technology leads both to a decrease in the size of microcomputer motherboards and to an increase in their speed, which makes it possible to improve software software applications.

The structure of the set of consumer functions of the proposed personal mobile voice information device should be basic for its further improvement.

Claims (1)

A mobile voice information device designed for simultaneous translation and dubbing of voice information from one language to another from various sources and containing: a microcomputer with WI-FI and Bluetooth modules and peripheral interfaces, controlled by voice commands through a voice-activated virtual assistant program and performed with the ability to receive information from external sources and connected to the output speaker, configured to sound voice information, connected to a microphone headset containing a bone conduction microphone and configured to receive conversational voice signals, while the microcomputer via the built-in WI-FI and Bluetooth modules is configured to find the required music, or news, or reference information from the Internet through standard communication with a personal mobile phone , or receive information from medical or sports gadgets or from gadgets that function as a radiation dosimeter, provide its translation and voice s user via bone conduction microphone in the background.

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