SMS messaging with speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversion
AssigneeAlcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
InventorsDavid S. Benco, Kevin J. Overend, Baoling S. Sheen, Sandra Lynn True, Kenneth J. Voight
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Abstract
A method is provided for handling of short message service (SMS) messages for a mobile station (MS) (10) served by a wireless telecommunications network. The method includes: receiving an SMS message at the MS (10), the SMS message being a text message; alerting a user of the MS (10) that the SMS message has been received; receiving an indication that the user desires to audibly retrieve the SMS message; converting the SMS message from a text message to a corresponding verbal message; and, playing the verbal message.
Claims5
A method of handling short message service (SMS) messages for a mobile station (MS) served by a wireless telecommunications network, said method comprising:
- (a) receiving an SMS message at the MS, said SMS message being a text message;
- (b) alerting a user of the MS that the SMS message has been received;
- (c) receiving an indication supplied by the user sent from the MS to a mobile switching station (MSC) that the user desires to audibly retrieve the SMS message;
- (d) converting the SMS message from a text message to a corresponding verbal message;
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- (e) playing the verbal message.
A mobile switching center (MSC) within a wireless telecommunication network providing short message service (SMS) messaging for a mobile station (MS) served by the network, said MSC comprising:
- a voice recognition module (VRM), said VRM selectively:
- (i) converting text from a SMS message received by the MS to corresponding speech upon the MSC receiving a first request type from the MS, said speech being forwarded from the MSC to the MS such that it can be played by the MS to a user thereof;
- and,
- (ii) converting speech received by the MSC from the MS into corresponding text upon the MSC receiving a second request type from the MS, said text being forwarded from the MSC to the MS such that it can be sent as an SMS message to a designated recipient over the wireless telecommunications network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.