公开(公告)号：US07404007B2

公开(公告)日：2008-07-22

申请号：US10862107

申请日：2004-06-04

申请人： Lawrence Wilcock ,  Paul St John Brittan

发明人： Lawrence Wilcock ,  Paul St John Brittan

IPC分类号： G06F15/173

CPC分类号： H04W88/06 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04L63/0442 ,  H04L63/12

摘要： Image data generated at a first mobile device is transferred to a storage service that is accessible via a communications infrastructure and with which a first party associated with the first mobile entity is preferably registered. This transfer is effected via one or more nearby third-party mobile devices with the first mobile device initially transferring the image data and an identifier of itself to the or each nearby third-party mobile device by using, for example, a short-range wireless link. The or each third-party device is then responsible for directly or indirectly forwarding the image data and the first-party identifier over the communications infrastructure to the storage service where it is stored. In one preferred embodiment, a reward is credited to any party whose device has been used in the successful transfer of image data to the storage service on behalf of the first party.

摘要翻译： 在第一移动设备处生成的图像数据被传送到可经由通信基础设施访问的存储服务，并且优选地与第一移动实体相关联的第一方注册。 该传送通过一个或多个附近的第三方移动设备实现，其中第一移动设备最初通过使用例如短距离无线网络将图像数据及其自身的标识符初始传送到或每个附近的第三方移动设备 链接。 然后，该或每个第三方设备负责通过通信基础设施将图像数据和第一方标识符直接或间接转发到存储在其中的存储服务。 在一个优选实施例中，奖励被记入任何一方，其设备已经用于代表第一方成功地传送到存储服务的图像数据。

公开(公告)号：US07191132B2

公开(公告)日：2007-03-13

申请号：US10158084

申请日：2002-05-31

申请人： Paul St John Brittan ,  Marianne Hickey ,  Roger Cecil Ferry Tucker

发明人： Paul St John Brittan ,  Marianne Hickey ,  Roger Cecil Ferry Tucker

IPC分类号： G10L13/08

CPC分类号： G10L21/0208 ,  G10L13/08 ,  G10L2021/02168

摘要： A speech synthesiser is provided with a dialog-style selection arrangement responsive to a factor affecting intelligibility of speech output by the apparatus to select a dialog style intended to provide at least a minimum level of intelligibility of speech output by the synthesiser. The selected dialog style is used by a speech-application text provider when generating text-form utterances for a current speech application, these text-form utterances then being converted into speech form by a text-to-speech converter. The factor affecting intelligibility may be a measure of the intelligibility of the speech-form output or an environmental factor such as background noise in the user's environment.

摘要翻译： 语音合成器被提供有响应于影响由设备输出的语音的可懂度的因素的对话式选择装置，以选择旨在提供由合成器输出的语音的至少最小水平的对话风格。 在为当前语音应用生成文本形式话语时，语音应用文本提供者使用所选择的对话风格，然后这些文本形式的话语被文本到语音转换器转换成语音形式。 影响可懂度的因素可以是语音形式输出的可懂度或用户环境中的背景噪声等环境因素的度量。

公开(公告)号：US06708153B2

公开(公告)日：2004-03-16

申请号：US10189156

申请日：2002-07-02

申请人： Paul St. John Brittan ,  Robert Francis Squibbs

发明人： Paul St. John Brittan ,  Robert Francis Squibbs

IPC分类号： G10L1302

CPC分类号： G10L13/08 ,  G10L15/30

摘要： A method is provided of setting the voice personality of a voice service site. A user browsing a voice web visits a voice site where the voice output of the site is presented using a set of voice personality characterisers with which the user is particularly comfortable. The user, in subsequently transferring to another voice service site, opts to have the voice personality that was embodied in the set of voice personality characterisers used by the site being left, transfer with the user to the new site. This transfer will typically be subject to permissions set by both the site being left and the site about to be visited.

公开(公告)号：US06664892B2

公开(公告)日：2003-12-16

申请号：US09994933

申请日：2001-11-28

申请人： Andrew Thomas ,  Stephen John Hinde ,  Paul St John Brittan

发明人： Andrew Thomas ,  Stephen John Hinde ,  Paul St John Brittan

IPC分类号： G08B2600

CPC分类号： G08B21/24 ,  G08B25/10 ,  G08B26/004 ,  G08B29/18

摘要： When a person first enters an unfamiliar work space, it is useful for that person to know what devices are present in the space and often the person will spend the first few minutes looking around, effectively carrying out an inventory of the devices present. In order to simplify this process the devices are arranged to announce their existence by sound in response to a prompt, such as a handclap. To avoid the announcements being made all at once in an unintelligible manner, the devices interact with each other to order their announcements so that each device announcement is, at least in due course, made uninterrupted by announcements from other devices. Typically, this interaction involves the devices using a collision-detection and back-off protocol applied to the announcements themselves.

摘要翻译： 当一个人首先进入一个不熟悉的工作空间时，这个人知道什么设备在这个空间中是有用的，并且通常人们将花几分钟的时间来查看周围的环境，从而有效地执行存在的设备的清单。 为了简化这个过程，设备被布置为响应于诸如手铐的提示而通过声音来宣布它们的存在。 为了避免以无法理解的方式立即进行通知，设备相互交互以排序其通知，使得每个设备公告至少在适当的时候由来自其他设备的通知不间断地进行。 通常，这种交互涉及使用应用于公告本身的冲突检测和退避协议的设备。

公开(公告)号：US07305068B2

公开(公告)日：2007-12-04

申请号：US11066984

申请日：2005-02-25

申请人： Roger Cecil Ferry Tucker ,  Paul St John Brittan

发明人： Roger Cecil Ferry Tucker ,  Paul St John Brittan

IPC分类号： G10L15/00 ,  H04M1/64 ,  H04B1/38

CPC分类号： H04M3/42 ,  H04M1/6505 ,  H04M1/663 ,  H04M1/72519 ,  H04M1/7255

摘要： A telephone call may be received or made by the user of telephony-enabled apparatus in circumstances, such as during a meeting, where spoken responses by the user to what the other party to the call has said are unacceptable. A telephony method and arrangement are disclosed which permits a user to use silent input to the telephony-enabled apparatus in order to generate a response to the other party to the call. Response generation is facilitated by enabling the user to effect a selection from the content of the other party's input, or from options derived from that input, with this selection then being used in forming the response.

摘要翻译： 在诸如会议期间的情况下，电话呼叫可以由启用电话的设备的用户接收或进行，其中用户对呼叫的另一方所说的响应是不可接受的。 公开了一种电话方法和装置，其允许用户对启用电话的设备使用静音输入，以便产生对呼叫的另一方的响应。 通过使用户能够从对方的输入的内容或从该输入导出的选项来实现选择，从而使得该选择被用于形成响应。

公开(公告)号：US06725199B2

公开(公告)日：2004-04-20

申请号：US10158010

申请日：2002-05-31

申请人： Paul St John Brittan ,  Roger Cecil Ferry Tucker

发明人： Paul St John Brittan ,  Roger Cecil Ferry Tucker

IPC分类号： G10L1300

CPC分类号： G10L13/047

摘要： A speech synthesizer includes plural synthesis engines each having different characteristics and converting text-form utterances into speech form. One of the synthesis engines is selected as the current operative engine for producing speech-form utterances for a speech application. If the overall quality of the speech-form utterance produced by the text-to-speech converter of the current operative synthesis engine becomes inadequate, a different engine is selected as the current operative synthesis engine.

摘要翻译： 语音合成器包括具有不同特征的多个合成引擎，并将文本形式的话语转换为语音形式。 选择合成引擎之一作为用于为语音应用产生语音形式话语的当前操作引擎。 如果由当前操作合成引擎的文本到语音转换器产生的语音形式的整体质量不足，则选择不同的引擎作为当前的操作合成引擎。

公开(公告)号：US07062440B2

公开(公告)日：2006-06-13

申请号：US10158104

申请日：2002-05-31

申请人： Paul St John Brittan ,  Roger Cecil Ferry Tucker

发明人： Paul St John Brittan ,  Roger Cecil Ferry Tucker

IPC分类号： G10L13/06

CPC分类号： G10L15/22 ,  G10L13/00 ,  G10L2015/228

摘要： A speech system has a speech input channel including a speech recognizer, and a speech output channel including a text-to-speech converter. Associated with the input channel is a barge-in control for setting barge-in behavior parameters determining how the apparatus handles barge-in by a user during speech output by the apparatus. In order to make the barge-in control more responsive to the actual speech output from the output channel, a barge-in prediction arrangement is provided that is responsive to feature values produced during the operation of the text-to-speech converter to produce indications as to the most likely barge-in points. The barge-in control is responsive to these indications to adjust at least one of the barge-in behavior parameters for periods corresponding to the most likely barge-in points.

摘要翻译： 语音系统具有包括语音识别器的语音输入通道和包括文本到语音转换器的语音输出通道。 与输入通道相关联的是用于设置插入行为参数的插入控制，用于确定设备如何在由设备的语音输出期间处理用户的插入。 为了使输入控制更加响应于从输出通道输出的实际语音输出，提供了一种插入式预测装置，其响应于在文本 - 语音转换器的操作期间产生的特征值以产生指示 关于最有可能的驳船点。 驳船控制响应于这些指示，以在对应于最可能的驳船点的时段内调整至少一个驳船行为参数。

公开(公告)号：US07373173B2

公开(公告)日：2008-05-13

申请号：US10870085

申请日：2004-06-16

申请人： Paul St John Brittan ,  Lawrence Wilcock

发明人： Paul St John Brittan ,  Lawrence Wilcock

IPC分类号： H04Q7/20

CPC分类号： H04W4/02 ,  H04M1/72555 ,  H04N1/00127 ,  H04N1/00244 ,  H04N1/00315 ,  H04N1/00326 ,  H04N2201/0084 ,  H04W4/08 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W64/006 ,  H04W84/18

摘要： The user of a mobile entity with camera functionality uses it to capture an image item which the user then transfers to a networked service system for future access. To facilitate the sharing of the image item with persons who were nearby when the image item was captured, the user uses the mobile entity to form a viewer set of permitted viewers of the image item. The process of forming the viewer set involves the user selection of individuals from a group of persons identified as nearby by a wireless enquiry carried out by the mobile entity contemporaneously with image-item capture. Each viewer in the viewer set is then sent a message with access information for accessing the image item at the service system.

摘要翻译： 具有相机功能的移动实体的用户使用它来捕获用户然后传送到网络服务系统以供将来访问的图像项目。 为了便于在捕获图像项目时附近的人员共享图像项目，用户使用移动实体来形成图像项目的允许观看者的观看者组。 形成观看者集合的过程涉及用户通过由移动实体同时进行图像项目捕获而进行的无线查询，从被识别为附近的一组人中选择个人。 然后在观看者组中的每个观看者发送具有用于在服务系统处访问图像项的访问信息的消息。

公开(公告)号：US07113911B2

公开(公告)日：2006-09-26

申请号：US09990768

申请日：2001-11-21

申请人： Stephen John Hinde ,  Paul St John Brittan ,  Marianne Hickey ,  Lawrence Wilcock ,  Guillaume Belrose ,  Andrew Thomas

发明人： Stephen John Hinde ,  Paul St John Brittan ,  Marianne Hickey ,  Lawrence Wilcock ,  Guillaume Belrose ,  Andrew Thomas

IPC分类号： G10L21/00

CPC分类号： G10L15/30 ,  H04M3/4938 ,  H04M2201/40 ,  H04M2201/60

摘要： A local entity without its own means of voice communication is provided with the semblance of having a voice interaction capability. This is done by providing a beacon device at or near the entity, the beacon device transmitting, over a short-range communication link, contact data identifying a voice service associated with, but hosted separately from, the entity. The transmitted contact data is picked up by equipment carried by a nearby person and used to contact the voice service over a wireless network. The person then interacts with the voice service, the latter acting as a voice proxy for the local entity. The contact data can be presented to the user in other ways, for example, by being inscribed on the local entity for scanning or user input into the equipment.

公开(公告)号：US07103548B2

公开(公告)日：2006-09-05

申请号：US10162038

申请日：2002-06-03

申请人： Robert Francis Squibbs ,  Paul St. John Brittan ,  Guillaume Belrose

发明人： Robert Francis Squibbs ,  Paul St. John Brittan ,  Guillaume Belrose

IPC分类号： G10L21/00

CPC分类号： H04M1/72547 ,  H04M1/72544

摘要： A text message generated at a sending device is converted into audio form by a message-conversion system for delivery to a target recipient. This conversion is effected in a manner enabling emotions, encoded by indicators embedded in the text message, to be expressed through multiple types of presentation feature in the audio form of the message. The mapping of emotions to feature values is pre-established for each feature type whilst the sender selection of one or more feature types to be used to express encoded emotions is specified by type indications inserted into the message at its time of generation.