Patent ID: 8223746

Claim:
A method for determining the type of transmission of signaling information between a first packet network terminal and a speech dialogue system, for simplifying the processing of the signaling information with relation to a dialogue with a speech dialogue system in a packet network, comprising: providing a first speech dialogue system, the first speech dialogue system having no special hardware for the support of in-band signaling; specifying the first speech dialogue system as the speech dialogue system; determining a codec supported by both the first packet network terminal and the speech dialogue system for the transmission of signaling information; controlling the speech dialogue system by a control device that, independently of the selected codec, sends a signaling message to the first packet network terminal and that message stipulates the use of out-of-band signaling; and in the case that the first packet network terminal does not permit out-of-band signaling for codecs supported by both the first packet network terminal and the first speech dialogue system: specifying a second speech dialogue system supporting in-band signaling as the speech dialogue system instead of the first speech dialogue system; and determining a coding method with in-band signaling for the transmission of the signaling information between the first packet terminal and the second speech dialogue system.