Patent ID: 6226361
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: G10L,H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
A communication method for communicating voice of a talking person through a non-guarantee type network, comprising the steps of:converting, by a call originating side terminal, voice of a talking person into voice data and speech recognizing the voice data to convert the voice data into character data:connecting the call originating side terminal to a call terminating side terminal through the non-guarantee type network based on identification data of the call terminating side terminal;transmitting, after the connection between the call originating side terminal and the call terminating side terminal is established, the character data as packets toward the call terminating side terminal; andreceiving the packet character data by the call terminating side terminal, converting the received character data in the form of packets into voice data by speech synthesis and outputting the voice data as voice;wherein the voice data are speech recognized divisionally for each predetermined number of words to convert the voice data into character data; andwherein, in parallel to the speech recognition, the voice data are compressed in units of a predetermined number of words to produce compression voice data, and when the speech recognition is insufficient or results in failure, the compression voice data are sent out as packets.