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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2000
Stefan Rapp, Fellbach, DE;
Silke Goronzy, Fellbach-Schmiden, DE;
Ralf Kompe, Fellbach, DE;
Peter Buchner, Kirchheim/Teck, DE;
Franck Giron, Fellbach, DE;
Helmut Lucke, Tokyo, JP;
Sony International (Europe) GmbH, Berlin, DE;
Abstract
According to the present invention network devices that can be controlled via a speech unit included in the network can send a device-document describing its functionality and its speech interface to said speech unit. The speech unit combines those documents to a general document that forms the basis to translate recognized user-commands into user-network-commands to control the connected network-devices. A device-document comprises at least the vocabulary and the commands associated therewith for the corresponding device. Furtheron, pronunciation, grammar for word sequences, rules for speech understanding and dialog can be contained in such documents as well as the same information for multiple languages or information for dynamic dialogs in speech understanding. It is possible that one device contains several documents and dynamically sends them to the speech unit in case they are needed. Furtheron, the present invention enables a device to change its functionality dynamically based on changing content, since a network device send its specifications regarding its speech capabilities to the speech unit while the speech unit is in use.