Patent ID: 6615177
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: G10L,H04M

Abstract:
Method to control a network device connected to a network with a speech unit within said network that translates user-commands into user-network-commands to control said network device via said network, comprising the steps of:receiving at least one device-document that contains a language of a corresponding network device, said language comprises at least one pair of an user-command interpretation element and an associated user-network-command; adapting a general document comprising a language of said speech unit with a received device-document, said language of said speech unit is structured like said language of a device-document, the general document being adapted by updating said language of said speech unit to include all pairs of an user-command interpretation element and an associated user-network-command of the language of said speech unit and of the language of the newly received device-document, wherein all user-commands of the pairs of an user-command interpretation element and an associated user-network-command which respective user-command interpretation elements are included in an intersection of said language of said speech unit and of the language of the newly received device-document get translated into a corresponding user-network-command on the basis of all pairs of an user-command interpretation element and an associated user-network-command included in said general document and a selection procedure and; translating a received and recognized spoken user-command into a corresponding user-network-command on the basis of all pairs of an user-command interpretation element and an associated user-network-command included in said general document.