Voice control system, corresponding motorcycle, helmet and method

A method of controlling a motorcycle dashboard, the method comprising:

• receiving, by receiver circuitry, voice-generated signals comprising voice-generated command signals for the motorcycle dashboard;
• recognizing, by command recognition circuitry, voice-generated command signals for the motorcycle dashboard out of the received voice-generated signals;
• and
• implementing, by command implementation circuitry, motorcycle dashboard actions as a function of the voice-generated command signals recognized by the command recognition circuitry;
• the recognizing the voice-generated command signals comprising:
• checking availability of a net-based voice-generated command signal recognition facility;
• in response to determining that the net-based voice-generated command signal recognition facility being checked to be unavailable, supplying, by a command recognition circuit located in a first signal propagation path towards the command implementation circuitry, to the command implementation circuitry, the voice-generated command signals recognized by the command recognition circuit;
• in response to determining that the net-based voice-generated command signal recognition facility being checked to be available, transmitting, by a network connectivity interface located in a second signal propagation path towards the command implementation circuitry, the voice-generated signals to the net-based voice-generated command signal recognition facility;
• after transmitting, receiving, by the network connectivity interface, voice-generated command signals recognized by the net-based voice-generated command signal recognition facility from the net-based voice-generated command signal recognition facility;
• and
• supplying, by the network connectivity interface, to the command implementation circuitry, the voice-generated command signals recognized by the net-based voice-generated command signal recognition facility.

A motorcycle voice control system comprising:

• a microphone sensitive to vocal activity disposed in a helmet, the microphone configured to produce voice-generated signals as a function of the vocal activity;
• wake word processing circuitry configured to detect an occurrence of at least one wake word in the voice-generated signals;
• command recognition circuitry configured to recognize voice-generated command signals out of the voice-generated signals;
• command implementation circuitry configured to implement motorcycle dashboard actions as a function of voice-generated command signals recognized by the command recognition circuitry,
• wherein the command recognition circuitry comprises:
• a command recognition circuit located in a first signal propagation path towards the command implementation circuitry, the command recognition circuit configured to supply, to the command implementation circuitry, voice-generated command signals recognized by the command recognition circuitry;
• and
• a network connectivity interface located in a second signal propagation path towards the command implementation circuitry, the network connectivity interface configured to:
• transmit the voice-generated signals to a net-based voice-generated command signal recognition facility;
• receive, from the net-based voice-generated command signal recognition facility, the voice-generated command signals recognized by the net-based voice-generated command signal recognition facility;
• and
• supply, to the command implementation circuitry, the voice-generated command signals;
• and
• a network availability node configured to, in response to detecting the occurrence of the at least one wake word by the wake word processing circuitry, check availability of the net-based voice-generated command signal recognition facility.