Global Patent Index - EP 0919032 A4

EP 0919032 A4 20030625 - NATURAL-LANGUAGE SPEECH CONTROL

Title (en)

NATURAL-LANGUAGE SPEECH CONTROL

Title (de)

NATÜRLICHE-SPRACHE-SPRECHSTEUERUNG

Title (fr)

PROCEDE DE COMMANDE VOCALE EN LANGAGE NATUREL

Publication

EP 0919032 A4 20030625 (EN)

Application

EP 97940741 A 19970828

Priority

  • US 9715388 W 19970828
  • US 2514596 P 19960829
  • US 91913897 A 19970827

Abstract (en)

[origin: CA2263743A1] A natural-language speech control method (20) produces a command (34) for controlling the operation of a digital computer (36) from words spoken in a natural-language. An audio signal that represents the spoken words is processed to generate textual digital-computer-data (24). The textual digitalcomputer-data (24) is then processed by a natural-language-syntactic-parser (26) to produce a parsed sentence in a logical form of the command (28). The parsed sentence is then processed by a semantic compiler (32) to generate the command (34) that controls the operation of the digital computer (36). The command (34) is expressed in a natural-language sentence that has an implied second person singular pronoun subject and the verb is active voice present tense. The preferred method uses a principles-and-parameters (P-and-P) Government-and-Binding-based (GB-based) natural-language-syntactic-parser (26) for resolving ambiguous syntactic structures.

IPC 1-7

G06F 17/20; G06F 17/27; G10L 5/00

IPC 8 full level

G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/20 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G06F 40/00 (2020.01); G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G10L 15/183 (2013.01); G10L 15/193 (2013.01); G10L 15/28 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE DE DK FR GB IE IT LU NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

CA 2263743 A1 19980305; EP 0919032 A1 19990602; EP 0919032 A4 20030625; JP 2002515147 A 20020521; NZ 333716 A 19990729

DOCDB simple family (application)

CA 2263743 A 19970828; EP 97940741 A 19970828; JP 51200598 A 19970828; NZ 33371697 A 19970828