Nokia Corporation

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Olli Viikki

Kari Laurila

Jilei Tian

Imre Kiss

Ramalingam Hariharan

Juha H&auml;kkinen

Juha Iso-Sipilä

The invention relates to an electronic device, which includes a voice user interface (VUI), speech-recognition devices (SR) for implementing the voice user interface (VUI), and memory (MEM), in which language-configuration data is arranged for the user interface (VUI, UI), including several language packages (LP-LP), in which packages (LP-LP) several languages (L-L) are grouped, of which at least some of the languages (L-L) may belong to several language packages (LP-LP), and at least one language package (LP) is arranged to be selected for use in the user interface (VUI, UI). In the invention, the language package (LP-LP) is selected by the device.

Language configuration of a user interface

A method needed in speech recognition for forming a pronunciation model in a telecommunications system comprising at least one portable electronic device and server. The electronic device is arranged to compare the user's speech information with pronunciation models comprising acoustic units and stored in the electronic device. A character sequence is transferred from the electronic device to the server. In the server, the character device is converted into a sequence of acoustic units. A sequence of acoustic units is sent from the server to the electronic device.

Arrangement of speaker-independent speech recognition

A method and device for providing a mixed audible signal which includes a ringing tone and the identity of a calling party upon receiving the incoming call of the calling party. The incoming call can be a voice call, a call to convey an MMS message, or a call to convey an SMS message. A TTS synthesizer is used to generate sounds representative of the text identifying the caller if the identity can be found in a caller ID database. A MIDI protocol is used to generate a ringing tone of one or more musical note sequences. A combining module is used to integrate the TTS message and the MIDI tone into the mixed audible signal. Whether only the ringing tone or the mixed audible signal is played is selectable based on a use profile of the device.

Text-to-speech and MIDI ringing tone for communications devices

In a speech recognition method and apparatus, according to the present invention, feature vectors produced by an analysing unit of a speech recognition device are modified for compensating the effects of noise. According to the invention, feature vectors are normalized using a sliding normalization buffer ( ). By means of the method according to the invention, the performance of the speech recognition device improves in situations, wherein the speech recognition device's training phase has been carried out in a noise environment that differs from the noise environment of the actual speech recognition phase.

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