Patent ID: 7039590
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: G08C,G10L

Abstract:
1. A voice-translating remote control comprising: a microphone operable to receive a nontrivial voice command and output a nontrivial voice signal; an audio transmitter operably connected to the microphone to transmit an audio input signal to a host system based on the nontrivial voice signal, wherein the host system comprising a nontrivial speech recognition processor; a signal receiver arranged to receive a command signal transmitted by the host system; a signal transmitter operably connected to the signal receiver to transmit a control signal to an appliance based on the command signal; and a user interface for validating the command signal, wherein the user interface configured to display contents of the command signal, wherein the contents of the command signal corresponds to an alpha-numeric representation of the non-trivial voice command.