Telecommunications speech/text conversion and message delivery system
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
InventorJohan Dahlen
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Abstract
An intelligent network telecommunications service allows a calling party (22) to provide a voice message which is converted by the service to a text message. The text message is delivered to any of a plurality of types of media formatters (90), which in turn transmit the text message to corresponding types of receiving equipment (100). The text messages can be delivered to a sole called party or to a distribution list of called parties.
Claims21
A telecommunications system which translates a voice call into a textual message, the telecommunications system comprising:
- a switching point which recognizes and intercepts a call from a calling party requiring speech to text translation;
- a service control point which receives the call from the switching point upon interception and which issues a prompt-enabling signal and a conversion-enabling signal;
- a prompter which, in response to the prompt-enabling signal generates a menu of requested information from the calling party;
- a speech/text converter which, in response to the conversion-enabling signal, receives a voice message from the calling party and converts the speech in the voice message to a text message;
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- wherein the service control point controls forwarding of the text message to a called party in accordance with a response from the calling party to at least some of the requested information.
A method of using a telecommunications system to translate a voice call into a textual message, the method comprising:
- at a switching point, recognizing and intercepting a call from a calling party requiring speech to text translation;
- upon the intercepting, using a service control point to issue a prompt-enabling signal and a conversion-enabling signal;
- in response to the prompt-enabling signal generating a menu of requested information from the calling party;
- in response to the conversion-enabling signal, obtaining the voice message from the calling party and converting speech in the voice message to a text message;
- using the service control point to forward the text message to a called party in accordance with a response from the calling party to at least some of the requested information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.