Telephone system for voice recognition
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorMasami Nashirozawa
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Abstract
A telephone set 2 to be connected to a main unit 1 of a private branch exchange or a key service unit includes therein a verbal telephone directory memory section 28d which stores information relating to the voice of the user and information relating to telephone numbers, a control section 28a which recognizes the user's input voice on the basis of the voice information and controls a dialing operation on the basis of the phone-number information, and a predetermined guidance memory section 28c which stores predetermined guidance used for giving instructions to the user in the form of voice or an indication.
Claims2
A telephone system for voice recognition to be connected to a main unit of a private branch exchange or a key service unit, said system for voice recognition comprising:
- a verbal telephone directory memory section for storing user voice information and user telephone directories;
- a control section which receives an input voice from a calling user, which retrieves a telephone number corresponding to the input voice from the verbal telephone directory memory section;
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- an interface unit for communicating the telephone number to a system control section of the main unit for controlling a dialing operation of the telephone number.
A method for providing user access to a verbal telephone directory comprising the steps of:
- storing user voice information;
- storing a user telephone directory in a telephone directory memory section;
- receiving an input voice from a calling user, performed after the step of storing user voice information;
- accessing, by a control section of a system for voice recognition, a telephone number in the user telephone directory which corresponds to the input voice;
- and
- providing the telephone number, by the control section, to a system control section of a main unit of a private branch exchange or a key service unit to which the system for voice recognition is connected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.