US 11,145,171 B2 · Electronic doorbell system with text communication

Abstract

An electronic doorbell system can be configured to enable remote audio communications between a visitor at the doorbell and a user of a mobile computing device by exchanging speech-to-text and/or text-to-speech messages in real time. Audio captured by the visitor can be transcribed into text messages and sent to the user of the mobile device using a speech-to-text service. The user of the mobile device can send text messages to the doorbell for playback to the visitor by using a text-to-speech service. The system can also use artificial intelligence to detect the language spoken by the visitor for translating between a predetermined language of the user and the language of the visitor. The system can also include a camera for capturing video of the visitor for display to the mobile device simultaneous with exchanging text messages between the visitor and the user, such as during a live Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communication.

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Dependent claims

An electronic doorbell system, comprising:

an electronic doorbell configured to capture an audio stream;
and
a hub in communication with the electronic doorbell, the hub having a processor executing a program stored in a non-transient medium operable to:
detect a trigger event from the electronic doorbell,
after the trigger event, receive an audio stream captured by the electronic doorbell, the audio stream being in a first language, and
transmit the audio stream to a text communication system remote to the hub;
at the text communication system, generate a message in a second language corresponding to the first language of the audio stream and
direct the message in the second language from the text communication system to an electronic device.

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Electronic doorbell system with text communication

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Electronic doorbell system with text communication

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Abstract

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