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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2004
Todd F. Mozer, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Forrest S. Mozer, Berkeley, CA (US);
Erich B. Adams, San Jose, CA (US);
Todd F. Mozer, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Forrest S. Mozer, Berkeley, CA (US);
Erich B. Adams, San Jose, CA (US);
Sensory, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes a speech recognition system comprising a light element, a power control switch, the power control switch varying the power delivered to the light element, a controller, a microphone, a speech recognizer coupled to the microphone for recognizing speech input signals and transmitting recognition results to the controller, and a speech synthesizer coupled to the controller for generating synthesized speech, wherein the controller varies the power to the light element in accordance with the recognition results received from the speech recognizer. Embodiments of the invention may alternatively include a low power wake up circuit. In another embodiment, the present invention is a method of controlling a device by voice commands.