Abstract:
A communication session is established between a mobile station (102) and an interactive voice response (IVR) system (106). One or more menu options in a speech form are received at the mobile station (102). The mobile station (102) converts these menu options from the speech form to a displayable form. A stored menu at the mobile station (102) is updated with the displayable form. The updated menu may then be presented to the user. The menu options reflected in the displayable form may be stored in at the mobile station (102) and/or at external devices that may or may not be associated with the IVR system (106).
Abstract:
Techniques and systems for recalling voicemail messages from remote voicemail systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for recalling a voicemail message from a target mailbox can include: accessing a voicemail system by a caller using a device; authenticating the caller using speaker verification; and deleting the voicemail message from the target mailbox. The target mailbox owner can be a member of the voicemail system, while the caller can be a non-member of that voicemail system. The device may be configured to support a telephony user interface (TUI), for example.
Abstract:
A method and voice communicator to provide a voice communication is described. The method may include identifying text to be communicated and automatically processing the text to generate an audio equivalent of the text. For example, the text may be scraped from a web page. The method may include identifying an intended recipient of the audio equivalent and thereafter communicating the audio equivalent as a telephone communication (e.g., a voice mail message in a voice mailbox). Thus, identifying the intended recipient may include requesting a telephone number of a sender (caller) of the voice communication. In an embodiment, the method comprises monitoring selection by a user of a contact list available on the voice communicator wherein the contact list includes a plurality of recipient names and their associated telephone numbers. The audio equivalent is communicated to the recipient device over, for example, PSTN or VoIP network.
Abstract:
A voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) positioning center (VPC) is implemented in configuration with support from a text-to-voice module, emergency routing database, and VoIP switching points (VSPs) to allow a public safety access point (PSAP) or other emergency center to effectively communicate the nature of an emergency alert notification and the area of notification to the VoIP positioning center (VPC). The inventive VPC in turn determines which phones (including wireless and/or VoIP phones) are currently in the area for notification, and reliably and quickly issues the required warning to all affected wireless and VoIP phones.
Abstract:
A voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) positioning center (VPC) is implemented in configuration with support from a text-to-voice module, emergency routing database, and VoIP switching points (VSPs) to allow a public safety access point (PSAP) or other emergency center to effectively communicate the nature of an emergency alert notification and the area of notification to the VoIP positioning center (VPC). The inventive VPC in turn determines which phones (including wireless and/or VoIP phones) are currently in the area for notification, and reliably and quickly issues the required warning to all affected wireless and VoIP phones.
Abstract:
A system (190) and method (200) for providing a message-based communications infrastructure for automated call center (11) post-call processing is described. Verbal speech utterances in a stream of recorded user messages (194) are identified. The recorded user messages (194) are parsed from a call with a user (82) into a call center (11). The stream of recorded user messages (194) are stored into a database (34) maintained by the call center (11). The call is processed through an agent (81). One or more of the user messages (194) is presented to the agent (81). Commands on the user messages (194) are executed responsive to the agent (81).
Abstract:
A method to generate revenue for a global network-based media provider is disclosed (400). The method includes qualifying users and sponsors of an integrated web site which provides streamlining digital media and search capability to users (410). The integrated web site includes a predictive global search engine which updates links in a view of the integrated web site by making predictive demographic and psychographic associations to users' lifestyles based on user interactions with the integrated web site (420). The updated links include links to sponsor web sites that a user is predicted to be interested in, and the provider of the integrated web site (i.e., the media provider) is paid a monetary amount every time a user accesses a sponsor's web site (430).
Abstract:
A radio telephone (100) and method (200,300) for responding to an incoming call received by the telephone (100). In response to the incoming call from a calling party the telephone provides for generating (220) an alert and then the telephone receives (240) a text message input at a user interface (106,105). This text message is composed after receipt of the incoming call and the text message is then converted (245) into a corresponding speech message. The speech message is then transmitted (255), after the incoming call is answered, to the calling party.
Abstract:
A method comprising receiving a request to compose a message; outputting a first prompt requesting a recipient for the message; receiving a first audible response to the first prompt, the first audible response including a recipient of the message; outputting a second prompt requesting a body for the message; receiving a second audible response to second prompt, the second audible response including a body of the message; and composing the message. An electronic device for voice messaging comprising an audible guide module for audibly prompting a user for recipient information and for audibly prompting a user for message information; a voice recognition module for interpreting received responses to the audible prompt for the recipient information and the audible prompt for the message information; and a message compiler module for creating a message from the responses to the audible prompt for the recipient information and the audible prompt for the message information.
Abstract:
A system (10) and method (40) for providing audible caller information to telephone service subscribers is presented. The system (10) includes a pre-processor (28) that converts textural caller information from a first data format to a second data format suitable for text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). The pre-processor (28) can be incorporated in a service node/intelligent peripheral (SN/IP) (24) in an advanced intelligent network (AIN). In this configuration, the pre-processor (28) can be used to convert caller-ID with name database entries into a predetermined TTS format. The TTS formatted information can be provided to a TTS synthesizer (30) included in the SN/IP (24). In conjunction with a switching service point (SSP) (20), the pre-processor (28) can provide a talking call-waiting feature to subscribers with significantly improved intelligibility.