Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
  • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
  • G06F40/00—Handling natural language data
  • G06F40/40—Processing or translation of natural language
  • G06F40/58—Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
  • H04M1/64—Automatic arrangements for answering calls; Automatic arrangements for recording messages for absent subscribers; Arrangements for recording conversations
  • H04M1/65—Recording arrangements for recording a message from the calling party
  • H04M1/6505—Recording arrangements for recording a message from the calling party storing speech in digital form

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• the present invention relates to an answering machine having an automatic translation function.
• FIG. 1 shows a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention
• Fig. 2 shows the operation as an answering machine when receiving a call.
• Fig. 3 is a flowchart showing the automatic translation operation.
• I is a one-chip microprocessor (CPU)]
• INT is an interrupt pin.
• 0 to I to 0 to 6 are output terminals, I to I to; [14 is an input terminal, and TESTI is an input terminal.
• 2 is the operation switch! ), Recording of response message ( ⁇ GM), playback switch, rewinding of caller's message (ICM), playback switch It has various operation switches such as setting to the one-answer recording mode.
• 3 is a line monitoring circuit for detecting the ringing signal and the on-hook of the caller, and 4 is the operation
• GM recording / playback section tape, or solid memory
• Reference numerals 6 and 7 denote amplification circuits
• reference numeral 8 denotes an ICM recording / playback unit for a caller's message (ICM :).
• ICM ICM recording / playback unit
• a recording tape is used so that long-time recording is possible.
• I 0 is a voice detection unit, and is the solid-state recording / playback unit described above?
• I2 is a speech tying processor, which determines one measure of the message that is speech-recognized as described above. And output it to a printer of I3 and a personal computer of I4.
• a call signal is sent to telephone lines LI and L2. —-When this signal comes in, this call signal is applied to the input terminal TES ⁇ I of C ⁇ 1 via the line monitoring circuit 3.
• TES ⁇ 1 is connected to a part of the power counter built into the CPUI, counts the AC waveform of the call signal, and if it is judged at step 20I in FIG.
• step 202 turn on relay Y-I to close the telephone line.
• relay Y —! Is turned on, so that the contacts yI-I are connected.]?
• the telephone lines LI and L2 are closed via the line transformer LT. Therefore, the calling signal is absent, and the two parties enter a talk state.
• the response ⁇ The test at the end of the message is performed. If the answer is affirmative, the process proceeds to the next step 205, where the ICM recording / playback unit ⁇ (Not shown) to start recording the caller's message ICM.
• a test is performed to determine whether or not the voice of the caller has been recorded in the above-described recording state.
• step 207 the flag F0 is set to "I"
• step 20S the relay Y-I is turned off to release the connection (step 20?)
• step 2II the message for one call is rewound and played, and this message is recorded in the solid-state recording / playback unit. Transfer to solid memory.
• Step 211 clear the above flag F0, and then (Step 2I3)-After performing the predetermined processing shown in FIG. 3 to be described later, the system returns to the standby state waiting for the incoming call signal of Step 20I.
• an interrupt can be made when the incoming call signal starts, and jumping to step 20I can be performed during automatic translation, even during automatic translation described later. Since the playback unit and the CM recording and playback unit are not used, it is possible to respond to the incoming call from the caller and record the message of the caller. Also, automatic translation takes time.
• the table position of each message is set to, for example, cp ⁇
• the next message to be translated is rewound to a predetermined position on the receiving tape and played back.
• the receiving tape is fast-forwarded ⁇ for the next message to be recorded, and the tape is cueed. Therefore, in order to perform the above-described interrupt operation, the line monitoring shown in FIG.
• the output of the visual circuit 3 is configured to be introduced into the interrupt terminal ⁇ NT of the CJP UI via the NOR gate 4 in parallel with the input terminal TESI of the CPUI.
• FIG. 3 is a flow chart relating to automatic translation]).
• step 301 as described above, one message transferred to the solid-state recording / reproducing unit 9 includes one message. Play a measure and use it as a sound
• one bar is a series of sentences up to the detection of a break in the message by the speech detection unit 10 described above.
• the speech recognition unit can recognize long sentences. Therefore, they are sent to the speech recognition unit one measure at a time.
• step 302 of ⁇ a test is performed to determine whether the above bar is Japanese. To test whether the language is Japanese, for example, perform a test to see if the “is” of the “was” feature of the Japanese language is detected, and test a few points for other features. If the feature of the step is not detected. Step 30 via step 304
• step 304 a test of “lam——”, which is a feature of English, and a few other sentences with features are performed. If it is determined that the language is English, the process proceeds to step 3 I 0. If another language is required, the program may be entered after denial of step 304. If the above message is determined to be in English, the translation software dedicated to the English language is sent to the personal computer I 4 from Steps 15-1 in Step 310. Since the program to determine the word is loaded on the i4 computer, this directive is issued from the personal computer 14 to the floppy I5. In the next step 3 I, the address of the solid-state recording / playback unit is changed.
• step 3 I 2 the above-mentioned bar is converted into a predetermined code, for example, an ASCII key code, in the voice type-writer-processing section I 2, and the -According to I3]? Print in the original language (step 313). Then, when this one-bar print ends, this coded one-bar is stored in the memory RAM of the personal computer I4 (steps 314, 3). 1 5). At the next step 3 I6, a test is performed to determine whether the above-mentioned processing has been completed for all of the message ICM of the caller.
• a predetermined code for example, an ASCII key code
• step 3 I7 the next bar of the solid memory is reproduced, and the above processing is repeated.
• Step 3 IS the automatic translation is started, and when the translation is completed, the translation is blended into the cut sheet using the printer I and the like.
• Step 31? To 320 The printed cut sheet is structured so that it can be supplied to the FAX 17 document feeder.
• the automatic dial section I 8 is started (step 32 1), and The translation is sent to the set recipient (step 3222). O If this transmission is unnecessary, the translation is stored in the printer I6. I can.

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