Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Seok-Yeong Jung

Sang-Hoon Lee

Kyung-Tae Kim

Hyuk Kang

Seong-Min Je

Shin-Jae Kang

Sang-Hoon Oh

Nam-il Lee

In-Yong Choi

Jeong-Hyun Ha

A portable communication device is provided for voice recognition and comprises a display, communication circuitry, a microphone, at least one processor including a first processor and a second processor, and a memory storing instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the portable communication device to: receive a first voice input via the microphone while a specified application is running; determine whether a voice recognition is to be performed with respect to the specified application by one of the first processor and the second processor; in case that the voice recognition is to be performed with respect to the specified application by the first processor; when the first voice input includes a wakeup command which is different from a designated command for the specified application by the voice recognition of the first processor, transmit a second voice input received after the first voice input through the communication circuitry to an external electronic device, and when the first voice input does not include the wakeup command and the first voice input includes the designated command by the voice recognition of the first processor, perform a function of the specified application corresponding to the designated command.

Electronic device and method for voice recognition using a plurality of voice recognition devices

A method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided for voice recognition. The method includes method of performing voice recognition by an electronic device including a first voice recognition device and a second voice recognition device, the method comprising receiving first voice by one of first voice recognition device and second voice recognition device; when first voice is received by the first voice recognition device and the first voice recognition device recognizes a predetermined command in the first voice, transferring a received second voice to an external electronic device and recognizing the received second voice through the external electronic device; and when the first voice is received by the second voice recognition device and the second voice recognition device recognizes the predetermined command in the first voice, recognizing a second command in the received second voice, and performing an operation based on the recognized second command.

Disclosed is an electronic device including: at least one processor; and a memory electrically connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions to recognize a received first voice, recognizes a first speaker based on the recognized first voice, and determines a response corresponding to the first voice based on a result of the recognition of the first speaker. Other embodiments are possible.

Method of responding to input voice of electronic device and electronic device therefor

A method and an electronic device are provided for voice recognition. A method includes receiving a first voice by one of a first voice recognition device and a second voice recognition device; when the first voice is received by the first voice recognition device and the first voice recognition device recognizes a predetermined command in the first voice, transferring a received second voice to an external electronic device and recognizing the received second voice through the external electronic device; and when the first voice is received by the second voice recognition device and the second voice recognition device recognizes the predetermined command in the first voice, recognizing a second command in the received second voice, and performing an operation based on the recognized second command.

Electronic device and method for voice recognition using a plurality of voice recognition engines

A method and an apparatus for managing a menu item in a portable terminal are provided. In the method, at least one item is selected from items displayed on a screen according to a user control. An attribute of selected at least one item is determined. A new item is generated by one of dividing and merging the at least one item depending on the determined attribute.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Seok-Yeong Jung