WO2001018990A1 - Systeme d'information personnelle, notamment systeme de guidage personnel pour transmettre des informations vocales sans fil - Google Patents

Systeme d'information personnelle, notamment systeme de guidage personnel pour transmettre des informations vocales sans fil Download PDF

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WO2001018990A1
WO2001018990A1 PCT/EP2000/008311 EP0008311W WO0118990A1 WO 2001018990 A1 WO2001018990 A1 WO 2001018990A1 EP 0008311 W EP0008311 W EP 0008311W WO 0118990 A1 WO0118990 A1 WO 0118990A1
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Wolfgang Niehoff
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Sennheiser Electronic Gmbh & Co. Kg
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Priority to EP00954657A priority patent/EP1214800B1/fr
Priority to DE50008774T priority patent/DE50008774D1/de
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L19/00—Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis
    • G10L19/0018—Speech coding using phonetic or linguistical decoding of the source; Reconstruction using text-to-speech synthesis

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  • Personal information system in particular personal guidance system, for the wireless transmission of voice information
  • the invention relates to a personal information system, in particular a personal guidance system, for transmitting voice information from a speaker's microphone by means of a transmitter to one or more listeners, which are each equipped with a receiver and playback sound transducer for receiving the wirelessly transmitted signals from the transmitter.
  • Group guidance systems are known in which a leading person (speaker) wears a wireless microphone close to the body and the individual persons in a guided group each receive a high-frequency receiver through which they hear the leading person, for example a city guide.
  • a leading person wears a wireless microphone close to the body and the individual persons in a guided group each receive a high-frequency receiver through which they hear the leading person, for example a city guide.
  • the city guide must speak this language himself or another person speaks this language, whereby different languages can also be transmitted simultaneously using different transmission frequencies.
  • Sennheiser with the SKM 1081 wireless microphone and the EK 1031 receivers.
  • multichannel interpreting systems are known, for example Sennheiser Infraport 1029 on an infrared basis. The voice of a speaker is transmitted to several interpreters, who translate the lecture simultaneously.
  • Each language is then fed separately to a multi-channel infrared transmitter.
  • the listeners have multi-channel receivers with which they can select their desired language from the simultaneously transmitted languages via frequency selection and listen to the lecture. These systems are also conceivable as multi-channel high-frequency systems, or a selection based on time slot (DECT) takes place.
  • DECT time slot
  • DE-A-1 95 08 01 7 describes a communication device with a built-in radio telephone and electronic translator, which translates from a first source language into an intermediate translation language. This intermediate translation language is then transmitted to another communication device in order to be converted there into a second language.
  • the present invention has for its object to equip and design a personal information system for transmitting speech information of the type mentioned in such a way that an automatic conversion of a source speech signal into one or more target languages is made possible, so that the use of interpreters is unnecessary.
  • the equipment required for this should be as compact as possible so that it can be integrated in a speaker unit or in receiver units.
  • a personal information system for transmitting voice information from a microphone of a speaker by means of a transmitter to one or more listeners, which are each equipped with a receiver and playback sound transducer (for example headphones) for receiving the wirelessly transmitted signals from the transmitter, in accordance with the present invention solved in that in the signal path between the microphone of the speaker and the playback sound transducer of the listener a speech recognition unit for recognizing the source information of the source language of the speaker, a translator unit for translating the source information into the target information of the target language and a speech generator unit for generating the target language from the target information ,
  • the automatic conversion from the speaker's source language to the listener's target languages is made possible by the fact that already known Speech recognition units and speech generator units are used and the conversion into the other language takes place by translating the recognized source information into the respective target information and not the direct conversion of the source language into the target language.
  • This implementation path with a speech recognition unit, a translation unit and a speech generator unit is preferably connected in parallel with an additional direct signal path for the unchanged transmission of the speech information in order not only to supply the translated speech information to certain listeners, but also to make the original speech information available to some listeners untranslated. Simplified receiver units can then be provided for these listeners of the original language information.
  • the units used here can be implemented in a relatively space-saving manner by using microelectronics, so that in a first advantageous embodiment they are accommodated in a receiver unit for the listener, but in a second embodiment for the speaker in a speaker unit.
  • the receiver units can e.g. B. be equipped for only one target language, so that several different handset units must be distributed for transmission in several languages. However, it is also possible to equip the receiver units for several target languages and to switch them over accordingly by the receiver.
  • the speaker unit or the central unit are preferably equipped for a plurality of target languages, and the transmitter is set up to transmit a plurality of target languages, including the source language, in the multiplex.
  • the system according to the invention can preferably be designed as a tour guide system in order to convert the speech information given by a speaking guide into several languages at the same time and to address these to the individual listeners transfer.
  • the principle according to the invention can also be implemented in any information system in which the language of a speaker or animator is automatically translated into several languages and transmitted to the listeners, who then select the desired language.
  • the transmission between the transmitter and the receiver is preferably carried out by means of radio frequency in order to enable seamless transmission even with obstacles in between.
  • transmission by means of infrared signals is also possible if there are no obstacles between the speaker and the listener, or parallel transmission paths are provided in another way.
  • the speech recognition unit, translator unit and speech generator unit are accommodated in the receiver unit and the transmission between transmitter and receiver takes place by means of radio frequency, it is also conceivable to use the system according to the invention in a radio transmission to a radio receiver, which is also a receiver unit.
  • the source information is available at the output of the speech recognition unit and the translated target information is available at the output of the translation unit, it is possible according to a further embodiment of the invention to connect an output unit here for outputting the coded source information or target information in order to provide the output recognized or translated information.
  • This output unit can be a display unit or a printer, for example. Further advantageous embodiments of the invention can be found in the subclaims.
  • FIG. 1 shows the block diagram of a first embodiment
  • Figure 2 shows the block diagram of a second embodiment.
  • a microphone M and a transmitter S provided with an antenna A are provided in a speaker unit SPE.
  • a plurality of receiver units HE1, HE2 etc. each have a receiver E connected to an antenna A, a speech recognition unit SE, a translator unit U and a speech generator SG to which a headphone or earphone A is connected.
  • any other suitable reproduction sound transducer can of course also be provided, e.g. also a speaker.
  • the receiver E receives the source language of the speaker unit SPE, and the speech recognition unit SE derives the source information from this. This source information is translated into target information of the target language by the translator unit U and converted into the target language in the language generator unit SG, which is reproduced by the headphones or earphones H.
  • Each of the receiver units HE1, HE2 etc. is either set up for only one target language, so that receiver units HE of different languages may have to be output to the individual listeners, or the translator unit U is set up for conversion into target information of different languages, so that the listener can then select the respective target language by pressing a selector switch W.
  • the number of receiver units HE1, HE2 is practically unlimited.
  • the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 differs from the first described according to FIG. 1 in that the speech recognition unit SE, the translator unit U and the speech generator units SG are accommodated in the speaker unit SPE.
  • the transmitter S is set up for the transmission of several target languages and sends this information in the multiplex, for. B. in frequency division multiplexing or time division multiplexing.
  • the receiver units HE are of a simpler design than in the first embodiment, since there is no translation of the speech information, but only the information received via the receiver E has to be transmitted to the headphones or earphones.
  • each receiver unit HE can be equipped for a target language, so that different receiver units HE must be output.
  • each of the receiver units HE is set up to selectively receive different languages, and the receiver selects the desired language via a selector switch W.
  • a bridging path 0 (shown in dashed lines) is provided for the additional transmission of the original language from the speaker to the listeners, in order to also supply the individual listeners in the original language.
  • This variant is particularly expedient, since a group of listeners with one language, e.g. the mother tongue of the country.
  • the speaker information can be transmitted unchanged for these listeners, so that these listeners can also be equipped with simpler receiver units, e.g. as shown in Fig. 2.
  • the microphone M and the transmitter S are accommodated in a common housing in the speaker unit SPE, from which the antenna A is also led out.
  • Such wireless microphones are generally known.
  • the receiver units HE this
  • the exemplary embodiment also contains further electronic units such as the speech recognition unit SE, the translation unit U with selector switch W and the speech generator unit SG. All of these units are preferably housed in a common housing, in particular in a housing of the headphones H or on a corresponding bracket.
  • the speech recognition unit SE the translation unit U with selector switch W
  • the speech generator unit SG All of these units are preferably housed in a common housing, in particular in a housing of the headphones H or on a corresponding bracket.
  • the electronic units of the speaker unit SPE are preferably accommodated in a common housing, that is to say in addition to the microphone M and the transmitter S and the antenna A, the electronic units such as the speech recognition unit SE, the translator units U1 and U2 and the speech generator units SG1 and SG2.
  • the receiver unit of the second exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 2 here contains fewer electronic units, such as the receiver E with antenna A and the headphone or earphone H, which can be switched over by the selector switch W, and these units can also be accommodated in a simple manner, in particular in the housing Housing or on the bracket of a headphone H.
  • the data can also be used to output the speaker's speech in the original language or in the target language.
  • an output unit D is connected at this point, as indicated by dashed lines in FIG. 1.
  • This output unit can e.g. a display unit for displaying the information on a screen or an output printer with which the information can be output on paper.

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L'invention concerne un système d'information personnelle, notamment un système de guidage personnel, pour transmettre les informations vocales d'un locuteur à plusieurs auditeurs par des voies sans fil. Selon l'invention, il est prévu dans le parcours des signaux, entre un microphone (M) du locuteur et des écouteurs (H) des auditeurs, une unité de reconnaissance vocale (SE) pour identifier l'information source de la langue source du locuteur, une unité de traduction pour traduire l'information source en information cible de la langue d'arrivée et une unité de génération vocale (SG) pour produire la langue d'arrivée à partir de l'information cible.
PCT/EP2000/008311 1999-09-02 2000-08-25 Systeme d'information personnelle, notamment systeme de guidage personnel pour transmettre des informations vocales sans fil WO2001018990A1 (fr)

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JP2001522691A JP2003509712A (ja) 1999-09-02 2000-08-25 スピーチ情報の無線送受信のための個人用情報システム
AT00954657T ATE283581T1 (de) 1999-09-02 2000-08-25 Personeninformationsanlage, insbesondere personenführungsanlage, zum drahtlosen übertragen von sprachinformationen
EP00954657A EP1214800B1 (fr) 1999-09-02 2000-08-25 Systeme d'information personnelle, notamment systeme de guidage personnel pour transmettre des informations vocales sans fil
DE50008774T DE50008774D1 (de) 1999-09-02 2000-08-25 Personeninformationsanlage, insbesondere personenführungsanlage, zum drahtlosen übertragen von sprachinformationen

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