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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1997
Jeremy Peter James Hughes, Southampton, GB;
Brian Hulse, Romsey, GB;
Robert Michael Jordan, Winchester, GB;
Caroline Edith Maynard, Winchester, GB;
John Brian Pickering, Winchester, GB;
Andrew Ritchie, Eastleigh, GB;
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A voice processing system comprising a digital trunk processor,and a system unit,incorporates a local voice recognition resource,provided on a digital signal processing board,, and can access a remote voice recognition resource,in a server,via a local area network,. The system provides a barge-in facility for the recognition resource on the remote server, whereby a prompt is played out to the user, and the incoming telephony signal is fed into a voice activity detector on the digital trunk processor. Responsive to a detection of incoming voice activity, the outgoing prompt is terminated, and the incoming data is transferred over the local area network to the remote server for recognition.