Patent ID: 6711543
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
A voice operated portable information management system that is substantially language independent and capable of supporting a substantially unlimited vocabulary, including:an input transducer for receiving a user's speech; an output transducer for outputting sound including speech; a speech processing system coupled to the input and output transducers and including means for: generating and storing compressed speech data corresponding to a user's speech received through the input transducer; comparing the stored speech data; re-synthesizing the stored speech data for output as speech through the output transducer; providing an audible user interface including a speech assistant for providing instructions in the user's language; storing user-specific compressed speech data, including commands, received in response to prompts from the speech assistant for purposes of adapting the system to the user's speech; identifying memo management commands spoken by the user, and storing and organizing compressed speech data as a function of the identified commands; identifying memo retrieval commands and search utterances spoken by the user, performing a best-match search comparing the search utterances to all or specified parts of the stored speech data, building a most likely candidate list of stored speech data, and outputting the identified stored speech data as a function of the commands; and identifying memo edit commands spoken by the user, and editing the identified stored speech data as a function of the commands.