Intel Corporation

Jim A Larson

Ben S Wymore

Sangita R Sharma

A mobile personal digital assistant (PDA) allows a user to enter information using both a touch screen and voice commands with a stylus. The stylus includes a microphone positioned at one end, and a transmitter for transmitting received voice signals to either a personal computer (PC) or the PDA. In one embodiment, a wireless stylus also includes a power supply and an activation control switch. The PC is used to translate the voice signals into translated voice data which is transmitted to the PDA for storage and display. If the user and the PDA are located remotely from the receiving PC, voice signals are stored in the PDA until a later time when the PC can translate the received voice signals. Where the PDA contains a processor to translate received voice signals, the stylus transmits directly to the PDA, and the PDA translates the received voice signals.

Pointing device with integrated audio input and associated methods

A mobile personal digital assistant (PDA) allows a user to enter information using both a touch screen and voice commands with a stylus. The stylus includes a microphone positioned at one end, and a transmitter for transmitting received voice signals to either a personal computer (PC) or the PDA. In one embodiment, a wireless stylus also includes a power supply and an activation control switch. The PC is used to translate the voice signals into translated voice data which is transmitted to the PDA for storage and display. If the user and the PDA are located remotely from the receiving PC, voice signals are stored in the PDA until a later time when the PC can translate the received voice signals. Where the PDA containsa processor to translate received voice signals, the stylus transmits directly to the PDA, and the PDA translates the received voice signals.

Pointing device with integrated audio input

The invention relates to unified client-server distributed architectures for spoken dialogue systems. Particularly, the invention provides a method, apparatus, and system for dynamically switching between various architectural configurations based upon user functionality and network conditions to implement speech recognition functions for a spoken dialogue system. In one embodiment, a client device is coupled to a server through a network. A configuration selection switch located within the client device selects a configuration based upon user functionality and network conditions to implement speech recognition functions for the spoken dialogue system. For example, the configuration selection switch may select one of a client-based configuration, a server-based configuration, a client-server distributed configuration, or a client-gateway-server distributed configuration based upon user functionality and network conditions. Each of these configurations is selected to provide the user with the most efficient speech recognition for the function being utilized by the user based upon network conditions.

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Beaverton, OR, United States of America

Jim A Larson