Method of controlling dialing modes in a vehicle
AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation
InventorsMichael A. Wuergler, Sherri J. Voran-Nowak, Rathinavelu Chengalvarayan, Gaurav Talwar
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Abstract
A dialing mode of a telematics unit in a vehicle is controlled by monitoring for dialing digits from a vehicle occupant, determining whether the type of dialing digits are continuous dialing digits or discrete dialing digits, establishing a continuous mode for receiving continuous dialing digits or a discrete mode for receiving discrete dialing digits based on the determination, and if the type of dialing digits changes, switching the established mode.
Claims11
A method of controlling a dialing mode of a telematics unit in a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving dialing digits that are spoken by a vehicle occupant;
- (b) placing a vehicle telematics unit in a voice mode;
- (c) determining that the dialing digits are no longer being spoken;
- (d) placing the vehicle telematics unit in a manual mode in response to the determination in step (c);
- (e) adding one or more dialing digits received via a tactile device to the dialing digits spoken by the vehicle occupant;
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- (f) monitoring both the tactile device and a microphone for additional dialing digits either spoken by the vehicle occupant or received at the tactile device.
A method of controlling a dialing mode of a telematics unit in a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
- (a) monitoring for dialing digits from a vehicle occupant;
- (b) determining whether the type of dialing digits are continuous dialing digits or discrete dialing digits;
- (c) selecting between a continuous mode for receiving continuous dialing digits and a discrete mode for receiving discrete dialing digits based on the determination, wherein the discrete mode performs speech recognition on each digit prior to receiving subsequent digits;
- (d) directing a vehicle telematics unit to enter the selected mode;
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- (e) if the type of dialing digits determined in step (b) changes, switching the selected mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.