Radio communication apparatus with telephone number registering function through speech recognition

A radio communication apparatus comprising:

• first and second storage sections;
• a receiving section receiving a speech data transmitted from a remote caller apparatus, said speech data including a telephone number;
• a speech recognizing section;
• a control section storing at least a part of said received speech data in a location of said first storage section, extracting said telephone number from said received speech data using said speech recognizing section, and storing said extracted telephone number in said second storage section in association with said predetermined location;
• and
• a transmitting section,
• wherein said speech recognizing section converts said received speech data into a character string through speech recognition in response to a recognition instruction,
• said control section generates said recognition instruction to said speech recognizing section and extracts said telephone number from said character string,
• said control section detects a numeric character string from said character string, determines that said numeric character string is said telephone number, based on a number of digits of said numeric character string and whether said numeric character string has one of a plurality predetermined telephone number patterns, and
• said control section controls said transmitting section in response to said acquisition start instruction and said acquisition end instruction to transmit first and second sounds to said remote caller apparatus, respectively.

A method of improving operability of a radio communication apparatus comprising:

• receiving a speech data transmitted from a remote caller apparatus, said speech data including a telephone number;
• storing at least a part of said received speech data in a location of a first storage section;
• extracting said telephone number from said received speech data by use of a speech recognizing function;
• and
• storing said extracted telephone number in an address of a second storage section,
• wherein said extracting comprises:
• converting said received speech data into a character string by use of said speech recognition function,
• extracting said telephone number from said character string,
• detecting, by a control section, a numeric character string from said character string;
• and
• determining that said numeric character string is said telephone number, based on a number of digits of said numeric character string and whether said numeric character string has one of a plurality of predetermined telephone number formats, and
• wherein said receiving comprises starting the reception of said speech data in response to an acquisition start instruction, and
• stopping the reception of said speech data in response to an acquisition end instruction.

A radio communication apparatus comprising:

• a first storage section storing speech data corresponding to a record in association with an address, the speech data output from a speech recognizer;
• a second storage section having first to third storage areas, said first storage area storing a telephone number of said record, said second storage area storing an association data of said record, said association data being associated with said telephone number, and said third storage area storing said address;
• an input section configured to input data and an instruction;
• a display section;
• and
• a control section displaying said association data of said records on said display section in response to a display instruction inputted from said input section by a user,
• wherein said control section detects a numeric character string from a character string converted from said speech data, and determines that said numeric character string is said telephone number based on a number of digits of said numeric character string and based on whether said numeric character string has one of a plurality of predetermined telephone number patterns, and
• wherein a reception of said speech data is started in response to an acquisition start instruction, and the reception of said speech data is stopped in response to an acquisition end instruction.

A radio communication apparatus comprising:

• first and second means for storage;
• means for receiving a speech data transmitted from a remote caller apparatus, said speech data including a telephone number;
• means for speech recognition;
• and
• control section means for storing at least a part of said received speech data in a location of said first means for storage, extracting said telephone number from said received speech data using said means for speech recognition, and storing said extracted telephone number in said second means for storage,
• wherein said means for speech recognition converts said received speech data into a character string through speech recognition in response to a recognition instruction, and said control section means generates said recognition instruction to said speech recognizing section and extracts said telephone number from said character string,
• wherein said control section detects a numeric character string from said character string, and determines that said numeric character string is said telephone number based on a number of digits of said numeric character string and based on whether said numeric character string has one of a plurality of predetermined telephone number patterns, and
• wherein a reception of said speech data is started in response to an acquisition start instruction, and the reception of said speech data is stopped in response to an acquisition end instruction.