Nokia Corporation

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Frank Dufhues

Peter Buth

Wolfgang Theimer

Reza Serafat

Udo Gortz

Amir Imam

Christian Steinert

Thomas Druke

Klaus Rateitschek

Klaus Rateitscheck

A communication apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus has an input/output (I/O) controller and a processor hosting a number of applications. The I/O controller responds to messages encoded according to a defined markup language. The applications communicate using the structure of the defined markup language.

Communication terminal

The invention relates to a method for inputting data into a system. In order to make it easier for users to input data, the invention provides that, in response to an input by a user, one or more terms which are as appropriate as possible for this input are determined as identified terms, that a confidence value is defined for each of these identified terms, and that the terms associated with an input are dealt with further, taking account of their confidence values.

Method for inputting data into a system

The invention specifies a simple reproduction method with improved pronunciation for voice-controlled systems with text-based speech synthesis even when the stored train of characters to be synthesized does not follow the general rules of speech reproduction. According to the invention, the method of &ldquo;copying&rdquo; the original spoken input text into the otherwise synthesized reproduction text, which is the current state of the art, is avoided, which will significantly increase the acceptance of the user of the voice-controlled system due to the process invented. More specifically, when there is actual spoken speech input that corresponds to a stored train of characters, the converted train of characters is compared to the speech input before reproduction of the train of characters described phonetically according to general rules and converted to a purely synthetic form. When the converted train of characters is found to deviate from the speech input by a value above a threshold value, at least one variation of the converted train of characters is created. This variation is then output instead of the converted train of characters as long as this variation deviates from the speech input by a value below the threshold value.

Text-based speech synthesis method containing synthetic speech comparisons and updates

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