VOICE-DIALING SYSTEM USING BOTH SPOKEN NAMES AND INITIALS IN RECOGNITION

Patent №

US 5,912,949

Granted

1999-06-15

Filed 1996

Owner

NORTHERN TELECOM LIMITED

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · speech · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08743933

A system for dialing a telephone by voice receives from a user a spoken name corresponding to a telephone number that the user desires to call and at least one initial. The systems uses both forms of speech information to retrieve a stored telephone number that corresponds to a stored name that best matches the spoken name.

Natural languageSpeechKnowledge representationH04M 1/271H04M 3/42204H04M 3/4931H04Q 3/625H04M 2201/40H04Q 2213/1307H04Q 2213/13093H04Q 2213/13096+5 more

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation0.55
Machine learning0.44
AI hardware0.33
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

NORTHERN TELECOM LIMITED

assignment · 83910642

Assignors

CHAN, CONWAY, WILL, CRAIG ALEXANDER

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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