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josh nice stuff..... is this new. or stuff you did before the summer.
I cant wait for the he-man epsiode about mekaneck.. and his feelings of inadiquacy within the masters of the universe.
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lol new thread huh?
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darmit..... sorry i tough i hit post reply.... not post thread... someone can delete this..
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This is an exciting time to be a Reds fan. I think we are better than the Nationals, especially our bullpen.
This is an exciting time to be a Reds fan. I think we are better than the Nationals, especially our bullpen.
Well deserved. Don't really see how anyone can argue, with how much weight is given to "what have you done for me lately" in those rankings.
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ESPN has The Reds moving from #5 to #4, with Rangers, Nats, and Yanks in ascending order. Yankees went 3-3 last week. What a joke.
There are only two seasons - Winter and Baseball.
Yeah, but the Yankees are American league and their schedule is tougher.
You also need to consider who were playing recently though. Not exactly the most challenging teams even though we were on the road.
We only live in patches. - H. G. Wells
I still think this is very exciting i'm also a bluejackets fan we don't get this in columbus
Even though the Reds just executed the superlative argument, (i.e. "even going 10-0 against the worst teams in baseball is a monster feat in itself") it's still going 10-0 and winning 6 in a row on the road. During that run you're one wrong play away from going 9-1. You give any other team the same schedule, 99% of the time they lose a game. Reds could have the exact same schedule and I doubt they win all 10 again.
MLB.com seems to get it. This is testament to how biased ESPN is.
There are only two seasons - Winter and Baseball.
yell but look when they played the a's when they were suppose to be the big dogs i believe we swept them we just need to make it to the big dance anything can happen
I'm just annoyed by ESPN's guys ranking a team whose record is worse than ours (albeit one game) and who lost a series to us at home
I just expected a bigger jump in the rankings (which don't really matter anyway) but the 1-5 spots are packed so tight.
Home field advantage is based on record, not by ESPN employees opinions. So all is well
There are only two seasons - Winter and Baseball.
All the best teams are in the NL, whoever comes out of that league wins the WS
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For decades, Vancouver Lake has been beset by persistent ecological problems. Sediment collects on the bottom, toxic algae blooms are frequent, and closures caused by health hazards are seemingly a rite of summer. All of this despite the best efforts of the Vancouver Lake Watershed Partnership.
Funded largely by the Port of Vancouver, Clark County and the City of Vancouver, the partnership has spent the past decade studying the lake and working toward solutions for its lingering problems. Those three agencies have contributed most of the $1.3 million the partnership has worked with over the past decade.
In December, the partnership published a summary of all the research it has helped facilitate, detailing what has been accomplished with its time and money. "It's a good idea to just sort of stop and assess where you are and look at what you know," said Ron Wierenga, a program manager in Clark County's Environmental Services department. "It's a good way to wrap all that up and give us a tool to communicate to people."
That report included possibilities for new restoration work -- items such as constructing wetlands and adding plants to absorb algae-fueling nutrients, or expanding trails and boat access around the lake. But in pondering what moves can be taken to enhance or protect Vancouver Lake, officials can embrace some lessons from the lake's history.
In the 1980s, a $17 million restoration project at Vancouver Lake dredged sediment from the bottom and built a channel to flush out contaminants with more water from the Columbia River. But over the past 30 years, sediment has built back up, leaving the lake's average depth at only a few feet.
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Amazon is celebrating their 20th anniversary with the aptly named "Prime Day," a shopping day that the retailer hopes will trump Black Friday.
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Yesterday a Fisa court judge issued final authorisation to a programme banned after Congress banned bulk collection of telephone data in the USA Freedom Act.
Today The Intercept is publishing 48 top-secret and other classified documents about XKEYSCORE dated up to 2013, which shed new light on the breadth, depth and functionality of this critical spy system.
Today The Intercept is publishing 48 top-secret and other classified documents about XKEYSCORE dated up to 2013, which shed new light on the breadth, depth and functionality of this critical spy system.
This is the power of an informed public.
Edward Snowden believes there is reason to be hopeful about mass surveillance (SLNYT).
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Eavesdropping on the population has revealed many saying "I'm not doing anything wrong so who cares if the NSA tracks what I say and do?"[more inside]
Citizens don't seem to mind this monitoring, so we're hiding recorders in public places in hopes of gathering information to help win the war on terror. We've started with NYC as a pilot program, but hope to roll the initiative out all across The Homeland.
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"I don't think they're all necessarily horrible people..." In an impressive display of solid intelligence tradecraft, the IC Watch project has released the Transparency Toolkit, whereby social media sites were mined for keywords, project names, employers, and locations known or suspected to be associated with the U.S. Intelligence Community. [more inside]
"I would want the dickpic program changed."
John Oliver explores the topic of government surveillance in the context of the June 1st deadline to reauthorize the Patriot Act and the ongoing Edward Snowden case.
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How the deaths of two women who mistakenly drove into high-security checkpoints reveal an intersection of racial and trans bias with fears about terrorism.
Wikimedia v. NSA
Today, the Wikimedia Foundation is filing suit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) of the United States. The lawsuit challenges the NSA's mass surveillance program, and specifically its large-scale search and seizure of internet communications — frequently referred to as "upstream" surveillance.
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Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald recently did an AMA on Citizenfour, their Oscar winning documentary about Snowden and the NSA scandal. Among the highlights is Snowden discussing the relationship between people and their governments and how enforcing the law too well actually can have severe drawbacks.
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American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys.
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American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys.
In all, Gemalto produces some 2 billion SIM cards a year.
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EFF's Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance
For years, we've been working on a strategy to end mass surveillance of digital communications of innocent people worldwide. Today we're laying out the plan, so you can understand how all the pieces fit together—that is, how U.S. advocacy and policy efforts connect to the international fight and vice versa. Decide for yourself where you can get involved to make the biggest difference.
For years, we've been working on a strategy to end mass surveillance of digital communications of innocent people worldwide. Today we're laying out the plan, so you can understand how all the pieces fit together—that is, how U.S. advocacy and policy efforts connect to the international fight and vice versa. Decide for yourself where you can get involved to make the biggest difference.
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The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle.
New Snowden documents show that the NSA and its allies are laughing at the rest of the world.
New Snowden documents show that the NSA and its allies are laughing at the rest of the world.
Possible Supreme Court cases that could rein in the NSA in 2015
If the Supreme Court tackles the NSA in 2015, it'll be one of these five cases. Detailed, thoughtful piece with lots of links from Ars Technica.
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In my quest for a fun leisurely browser game and my current stint here mmorpg.com I came across your game...
1) The opening message tells you to check progress and drag the highlighted skills to your combat bar
- They are already on your bar, no need to drag... at least order the damn skills in the level they come at...
2) No explanation of sparring/battling at all
- There should be opening message(s) that explain how to fight- that battling counts towards your score, but sparring doesn't and that you can level by sparring, you don't have to battle. Also a tidbit about sparring other people who are not online through their auto attack mode instead of leaving people to think they have to spar and lose to your ONE lvl 1 npc...
3) Balance?
- Having tried each of your 3 classes the shaman is by far the most underpowered and the warrior the most over powered because of the insane amount armor values effect damage (As even the damn fireball is mitigated by armor....[either that or you balanced the fireball to do that little damage....])
4) You can't call your game free if you have to pay to get any item over the level 1 set of items...
-Allow players to buy all the basic sets of armor and afford paying players an exp or geldor boost- and if you offer an item it better not be one with a shit ton more armor until you balance that.
5) The battles even in auto mode can sometimes be laggy and freeze
- Come on... its 2d
6) Ranks not even working
- ... yup
6) Pay less advertising this crap
- Spend it on finishing your game instead.
I love the idea of this game, and appreciate its potential... but don't advertise this until it's actually done- possible customers will be discouraged/frustrated and never open your game again.
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Originally posted by Veridic
Hi Veridic
1. It is wise to check the progress tab to add new skills and distribute points as you level.
2. There is a game manual, its a blue icon right above the chat bar.
3. The Shaman was designed for advanced players. While the Warlord is designed for Novices. While the Shaman may seem a bit underpowered in the begining, you will see as they progress, they become they most powerful class in the game, if you understand how to use the attacks. Shamans are the squishies in this game.
4. There are items available all the way to level 20 that do not require a paid membership to purchase in the game. Our game is F2P, and has the same business model as other F2P games.
5. There were some performance issues after launch, but they have all been resolved now. While the graphics are 2D, there is no client to download, and the PvP battles require real time synching. No other game has done this to date, we are the first. ;)
6. Ranks work quite fine. You may see people with lower win percentages in higher positions because we use the ELO system. Ranks are determined by how difficult your opponents are, so if you just spam kill NPCs all day, you may have a higher win percentage, but you will fall down through the ranks.
6. We are working on updates for the game, but if you have issues with performance I would check with your ISP. The updates we are working on are new pieces of equipment, classes and races.
As I said, changing the wording on the intro page with properly worded information- I didn't mean for you to restate it here. Just include a little information about the manual or maybe open the progress tab and say this is where you can add points as you level... or just word it right.
Saying that one class is designed for advanced players and another isn't is silly... they are either balanced or they are not- if a properly played shaman at higher levels is the most powerful then there is no reason to play other classes- especially in a pvp driven game-
I tried to purchase the only level 3 weapon and armor as a shaman and it said I had to join to do it... I looked for a next page option to look for more gear and there was none- so I obviously i'm not advanced but I have still yet to find it. Please show me where it is.
As per keeping to the standard of f2p, most f2p games only provide costume armor or bonuses- not viably the ONLY armor at certain levels.
Saying your perfomance issues have been solved is silly- I am directly hooked up to a steady 8 mbps DL and 4 up and it is doing it consistantly... every other game I can play wired, with my laptop wireless, with my 360 streaming netflix and i'm fine. So please don't tell me it is my isp.
Now I did not intend for this to start a battle of kwips- I offered suggestions and you basically came back with "Working as intended" and if that's the case this is not the game for me, or my friends and I will be ok with that. I was hoping however for more receptiveness as I have helped test and logged countless hours of many mmos both browser based and packaged. The fact that you responded says something though...
Note I came to this specific forum and did not start a giant flame fest in general- I am genuinely looking for a good browser mmo and want to see new ones succeed. I was a tad irritated but don't think that my feelings were not well thought out and actual perceptions from my friends and I.
Thanks for your time.
Disciple Staff
Joined: 12/08/07
Originally posted by Veridic
In regards to the wording of the intro message, Your suggestion to mention the game manual is a great idea and is noted.
In regards to class balance, I would suggest you play beyond level 3. With a Warlord, the combinations of attacks are pretty straight forward: hit your opponent and absorb damage with heavy armor. As you progress through the game as a Shaman, you will notice rather unique attacks such as buffs and debuffs becoming available. If these attacks are used at the wrong time, you will be defeated often, however if you use the attacks at the 'right time' you will win more often than not. So essentially while the Shaman does start out a bit weak, as you progress your strategy will simply require a bit more thought. Another factor in all of this is how you distribute your points (Body Mind Spirit). As with most RPGs we DID design the game so that its possible to create a broken build, this adds to the fun, but you can always Respec. With all games balance is a never ending chore, however, and though we feel that the game is balanced now, we acknowledge there is ALWAYS room for improvement, and have been making balance updates on a monthly or bi-monthly basis since launch.
In regards to performance, I would suggest a few things: Please check to see if you have your anti virus settings on ultra high. Also check if you have adblock running, or any ip blocking software. In addition to this, if you are playing a real person on the other end, your experience is going to be directly effected by THEIR connection to the internet, as this is all happening in real time. You will not render any faster than your opponent. Since Disciple has absolutely no native client running on your machine (or browser plug in) there is always a chance that an error can occur between your connection and our server anywhere on the internet (routing occurs between multiple carriers etc). In closing we do take performance VERY seriously, and acknowledge that there were a plethora of issues a month ago and before. We use performance tracking software that details load times for all players and all fights that take place on a daily basis. While we do see 1 or 2 'freezes' occur in these reports each day, over 90% of the fights that happen load in under 5 seconds and complete without issues. The other 10% are caused by network anomalies and users with slow connections.
In regards to gear, there is not free gear available at each level, but there is free gear available up until level 20 roughly at every other level.
We do appreciate your feedback, and look forward to more as you continue to play Disciple (we hope you do!). Also, if you are a facebook user, you will see Disciple on facebook next week, with a huge update to many aspects of the game itself.
Good Luck!
I appreciate the reply- I wish you the best, and I will be continuing to watch as this game progresses. For me though because I can only keep up with paying players every other set of items (meaning most of the time I have to fight other non paying players or prepare to lose) and knowing end game I either pay or don't compete- I won't be playing.
I wish you a successful game! Thanks again for answering my questions/suggestions.


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Personalized agent services are provided in a personal messaging device, such as a cellular telephone or personal digital assistant, through services of a speech recognizer that converts speech into text and a text-to-speech synthesizer that converts text to speech. Both recognizer and synthesizer may be server-based or locally deployed within the device. The user dictates an e-mail message which is converted to text and stored. The stored text is sent back to the user as text or as synthesized speech, to allow the user to edit the message and correct transcription errors before sending as e-mail. The system includes a summarization module that prepares short summaries of incoming e-mail and voice mail. The user may access these summaries, and retrieve and organize email and voice mail using speech commands.
1. A personal messaging device comprising:
a hand held mobile device having an audio receiver and an audio transmitter, said audio receiver operable to receive input audio signals, and said audio transmitter operable to transmit output audio signals;
a speech recognizer operable to convert said input audio signals into recognized words;
a mail interface module coupled to said speech recognizer for managing mail messages based on said recognized words;
a speech editor, said speech editor providing a means for editing a segment of said output audio signals or said input audio signals;
said speech editor allowing a user to select a segment of said audio signals; and
said speech editor further allowing a user to alter said segment of said audio signals.
2. The apparatus of
3. The apparatus of
4. The apparatus of
5. The apparatus of
a user selects said segment of said audio signal by indicating a beginning and an end point of said segment; and
said speech editor provides a user interface communicating with said hand held mobile device through which a user selects said beginning and end points of said segment by keypad or voice inputs.
6. The apparatus of
7. The apparatus of
8. The apparatus of
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11. The apparatus of
12. A personal messaging device comprising:
a hand held mobile device having an audio receiver and an audio transmitter, said audio receiver operable to receive input audio signals, and said audio transmitter operable to transmit output audio signals, said hand held mobile device in communication with a mail storage database;
a speech recognizer operable to convert said input audio signals into text;
a text to speech synthesizer operable to convert said text into output audio signals;
a search engine interface in communication with said speech recognizer, said search engine interface operable to receive verbal or textual search queries from a user, said search engine interface further operable to retrieve a text or voice message from said mail storage database based on said search queries; and
a message summarizer, said summarizer operable to receive said retrieved messages from said search engine interface, said summarizer further operable to extract a summary of the contents of said messages.
13. The apparatus of
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16. The apparatus of
17. A method for inputting speech into a hand held mobile device having an audio receiver and an audio transmitter, wherein the input speech is returned to the device in the form of text or synthesized speech for the purpose of review and correction by the user, the process comprising steps of:
transmitting said input speech to a speech recognizer;
converting said input speech into a text message;
converting said text message into synthesized speech;
transmitting said synthesized speech to a user;
selecting a segment of the message based on voice or keypad inputs from a user, the inputs indicating the beginning and end points of the desired segment;
replaying the message to the user with audible tones inserted at the points selected by the user;
receiving an indication from the user that the selected segment of the message is correct; and
editing the selected segment by allowing the user to input speech to replace the selected segment.
18. The method according to
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20. The method of
21. A method for retrieving a summary of a stored electronic mail or text message using a hand held mobile device having an audio receiver and an audio transmitter, wherein the message is returned to the device based on an audio search query input by a user, the process comprising steps of:
transmitting the audio search query to a speech recognizer;
converting audio query into a text query;
interfacing with a search engine;
searching a mail database with the search engine;
retrieving an electronic mail or text message from the mail database based on the search query;
extracting a summary of the contents of the message;
converting the summary of the message into synthesized speech; and
transmitting the summary of the message to the hand held mobile device in the form of synthesized speech.
22. The method according to
23. A method for retrieving a summary of a stored voice conversation or voice message using a hand held mobile device having an audio receiver and an audio transmitter, wherein the message is returned to the device based on an audio search query input by a user, the process comprising steps of:
transmitting the audio search query to a speech recognizer;
converting audio query into a text query;
interfacing with a search engine;
searching an audio database with the search engine;
retrieving a voice conversation or voice message from the audio database based on the search query;
extracting a summary of the contents of the voice conversation or message;
converting the summary of the message into synthesized speech; and
transmitting the summary of the message to the hand held mobile device in the form of synthesized speech.
24. The method according to
The present invention relates generally to speech recognition and speech synthesis. More particularly, the invention relates to a system and method for improving the text and audio messaging features of portable mobile communication devices, such as cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, and the like.
Mobile communication devices such as cellular telephones, personal digital assistants and portable radios, are convenient messaging devices that enable both voice and short text messages to be sent and received. However, these devices have several limitations. There is no convenient way to generate e-mail messages longer than a few sentences. This is particularly true with cellular telephones, which have small display screens and only rudimentary text input capability. Moreover, it is not practical to handle large quantities of incoming e-mail because of the limitations on both storage and character display. There is also no good way to archive and index voice messages and conversations.
The present invention overcomes these shortcomings by providing a system that integrates speech recognition and speech synthesis into these mobile communication devices. We call this system a personalized agent because it handles many of the user's speech and text processing tasks as a personal assistant or secretary might do if one were available. In its preferred embodiment, a server-based speech recognition helps generate text messages. The system will also allow a user to browse through e-mail that is stored on a server by generating search requests on the mobile device. The requests can be initiated by voice or by using the keypad or other input device. In another embodiment speech recognition is used to generate a transcription of a voice message or conversation. The transcription may then be used to index the audio file and the audio file itself can be stored on the server, allowing the user to access it at a later date.
For a more complete understanding of the invention, its objects and advantages, refer to the following specification and to the accompanying drawings.
The present invention will become more fully understood from the detailed description and the accompanying drawings, wherein:
The following description of the preferred embodiment(s) is merely exemplary in nature and is in no way intended to limit the invention, its application, or uses.
The present invention may be used to add speech processing capabilities to a variety of mobile communication devices. A cellular telephone will be used for illustration purposes here, although it will be recognized that the principles of the invention can be utilized in a variety of different mobile communication devices, including but not limited to, personal digital assistants (PDA), mobile radios, and the like.
A mobile communication device (cellular telephone) 10 is illustrated in FIG. 1. It communicates through the cellular infrastructure 12 generally as illustrated. In the presently preferred embodiments the mobile communication device, such as cellular telephone 10, has both voice and text capabilities. Text messages are displayed on display screen 14. The device can send and receive text data as well a voice messages. Voice messages are communicated through the mouthpiece (microphone) and earpiece (speaker) of the device. Text may be manually input by depressing buttons on keypad 16. Also, as will be more fully explained, text can be entered by using the speech processing services of the invention, in which case the user speaks the text that is desired to be input. This input speech can be in the form of continuous speech (e.g., dictation) or in the form of individual (discrete) words or by spelling by voice.
One common shortcoming of most mobile communication devices, including cellular telephone 10, is that the display screen 14 is comparatively small. While short text messages can be conveniently displayed on this screen, longer messages are problematic. Another attribute common to many mobile communication devices is a lack of processing power and memory. It is often not feasible to implement full-featured voice processing systems in the mobile communication device itself.
To address these issues, the preferred embodiment illustrated in
Although any computer network may be used to implement the communication link between the mobile communication device and the speech processing servers, a particularly convenient implementation uses the internet 26 for such communication. Connectivity to the internet can be provided in a variety of ways. The cellular service provider 22 may offer internet service provider (ISP) services as illustrated at 28. Thus subscribers who wish to have internet access on their mobile communication devices (e.g., cellular telephone 10) may receive such services through ISP 28.
Typically the cellular service provider 22 is also connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) 30, which effectively couples the cellular infrastructure users to the public switched telephone infrastructure. Access to the internet 26 may therefore be had by utilizing services of an independent ISP 32 via dial-up connection over the public switched telephone network 30.
Once the mobile communication device is coupled to the internet, it opens up a variety of different communication possibilities, including email. While there are a variety of different e-mail server standards in popular use today, none of them have heretofore fully supported access using portable communication devices such as cellular telephones. For illustration purposes, two mail server systems are illustrated in FIG. 1. The private mail server 24 communicates with the internet 26 through an ISP 34. The speech processing server 20 works in conjunction with the private mail server. Although not required to be connected in this fashion, a typical embodiment would connect the speech processing server with the private mail server using a suitable local area network connection 36.
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In the presently preferred embodiment the recognizer employs a data store containing speaker independent speech models 54 and one or more sets of adapted speech models 56. The speaker independent models are designed to provide good recognition across a wide speaker population. The speaker independent models are used when there are no specifically adapted speech models for an individual user. The adapted speech models 56 are tuned to an individual user's speech.
While there are a variety of different ways of constructing the adapted speech models, one presently preferred embodiment uses the speaker independent speech models as a starting point. These models are then adapted through interaction with a given user. The user is prompted to utter a predetermined phrase or sentence (supervised adaptation) and the system then correlates the user's utterance to the prompted phrase or sentence. In the alternative, unsupervised adaptation may also be implemented. After correlating the utterance to the phrase or sentence, the system selectively adjusts one or more of the speaker independent model parameters to improve the likelihood that the adapted models will recognize the phrase or sentence uttered. The adapted models are stored at 56, preferably as part of the user identification database 58. The user identification database defines a relationship or association between the user's identifier (such as an assigned subscriber identifier 60 or the user's telephone number, which may be obtained using the telephone caller ID 62).
The system will automatically retrieve the appropriate adapted speech models 56 for a given user by first ascertaining the user's subscriber ID or caller ID and then retrieving the corresponding set of adapted speech models from the user ID database 58.
When the user wishes to dictate an e-mail message for sending over a computer network such as the internet, the user uses the cellular telephone (or alternatively any suitable device that communicates with the speech processing server). A dictated message 64 is provided and submitted to speech recognizer 50 for conversion into text. The text transcript of the dictated message is stored in a transcription data store 66, which may be implemented using a computer memory. The transcription data store thus contains an initial text message 68, which may be sent back to the user's portable device (e.g., cellular telephone) for display upon the display screen 14. To accommodate systems which do not have a suitable display screen, the contents of transcription data store 66 may also be sent to the text-to-speech synthesizer 52, which converts the text message into a synthesized voice message 70 that is then sent back to the device 10 for replay through the speaker or earpiece.
Providing the user with both visual and audible replay of the transcribed message gives the user an opportunity to verify that the dictated message was correctly transcribed. If there are any errors or changes required, the user enters an edit mode on the device which allows the user to edit the message. In the presently preferred embodiment the user can edit selected words by highlighting them on the display screen and then making changes to the highlighted selection by data entry through keypad 16, or by re-dictating the highlighted selection or by spelling the corrected dictation by voice. In the spell-by-voice editing mode, the user spells his or her corrections to the highlighted selection by speaking the spelled correction, letter-by-letter.
To accommodate systems that do not have a suitable display screen, the user can "select" a given portion of the synthesized voice message in the audio domain by depressing selection keys on the device at points in time immediately preceding and immediately following the synthesized voice message portion to be edited. In one embodiment, the system places short audible tones at these edit points, so that the user can hear where he or she has placed the edit delimiters before undertaking the editing process.
Once the user is satisfied that the transcription data store 66 contains the e-mail message to be sent, the user depresses the send key on the device, causing the contents of the transcription data store 66 to be flushed to the mail server interface 72. The mail server interface then handles the details of sending the transcribed message as an e-mail message as at 74.
The speech processing server 18 is also capable of retrieving email messages for audible and text presentation to the user of the device 10. Components for providing this functionality in the presently preferred embodiment are shown in FIG. 3. Many of the components have been previously discussed in connection with the e-mail message dictation feature illustrated in FIG. 2. Unless otherwise noted, those components provide the same functionality for the e-mail retrieval and presentation functions depicted in FIG. 3.
Specifically, the mail server interface 72 is placed in communication with mail server database 76. The mail server database can be physically located at the same site as the speech processing server (such as part of the subscriber mail server 38 or private mail server 24 of FIG. 1). However, physical location of the mail server database is not a requirement. The invention may be implemented in configurations where the mail is stored anywhere that is accessible by the mail server interface 72.
Associated with the mail server interface is a search engine interface 78. The search engine interface is in turn coupled to speech recognizer 50. When a user wishes to retrieve an e-mail message for presentation on device 10, the user enters a search query or command phrase 80 by speaking into the device as at 80. The speech recognizer 50 then decodes the uttered query or command and sends it to the search engine interface 78. Alternatively, the user can enter search queries by pressing buttons on the keypad of the device, or by writing the commands as electronic ink symbols on a digitizing input tablet, if such is provided in the handheld device. Digitizing input tablets are common to many handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) and are expected to become popular in cellular telephone devices as well.
In the keypad entry mode, there are several ways to decode the user's input. One embodiment uses the alphabetic letters on the standard telephone touch tone keypad. On such keypads there are typically three alphabetic letters assigned to each button. The user controls which of the three letters is input by the number of times he or she presses the key. For example, the '2' button is assigned letters A, B and C. To input the letter 'A' the user presses '2' one time; to input the letter 'B' the user presses '2' twice; to input the letter 'C' the user presses '2' three times.
An alternate embodiment for keypad entry uses the key encoding scheme described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,246,983, entitled "Text to Speech E-mail Reader with Multi-Modal Reply Processor," issued to Zou, et al and assigned to the assignee of the present invention. That embodiment includes an ASCII encoder system that allows an e-mail message to be composed and addressed using the full ASCII character set, entered through a special technique using the touch tone phone's numeric keypad. Most ASCII characters are defined by a two-button sequence, allowing for entry of both upper case and lower case letters as well as punctuation symbols. Thus the ASCII encoder system allows a user to enter any valid e-mail address, even though the address includes one or more ASCII punctuation characters not found on the touch tone keypad.
Although not shown, the uttered or hand-entered search query or command may be optionally displayed as a text message or repeated as a synthesized voice message in the same fashion as a dictated message was provided to the user for editing as shown in FIG. 2. Thus the user is able to edit and correct any search queries or commands before they are sent to the search engine interface 78.
Once received by the search engine interface, the search engine associated with the mail server interface examines the contents of the mail server database to ascertain whether any mail messages stored there are applicable to the user's query or command. For example, the user may wish to select for presentation all e-mail messages from a particular source. The user would speak a suitable command such as, "Retrieve all e-mail messages from Keri." The speech recognizer would convert the spoken request into a text string which is then fed to the search engine interface 78 for parsing.
The presently preferred search engine interface uses a frame-based natural language parser that will extract the semantic content or meaning of the input command. In this case, the natural language parser would identify the command "Retrieve" as instruction to search for and retrieve records from database 76. It would parse the words "from Keri" as a search criteria or search constraint, namely that all e-mail messages from the identified sender "Keri" are to be retrieved.
The mail server 72 acts upon the parsed command by retrieving the selected e-mail messages from the server and supplying them, preferably sequentially, to the e-mail message data store 82. From data store 82 each email message can be displayed as a text message 68 upon display screen 14, or provided as a synthesized voice message 70 using the services of text-to-speech synthesizer 52.
The capabilities of the preferred embodiments heretofore discussed have related primarily to e-mail sending and retrieving. However, the architecture of the presently preferred speech processing server 18 can readily be extended to non-text messaging as well. To illustrate this capability,
The voice-mail server interface 92 thus provides the selected voice-mail message over two paths, one leading directly to the user's portable device 10 and the other to speech recognizer 50. Using the portable device's speaker or earpiece, the user is thus able to hear the selected voice-mail message as it was originally saved in the voice-mail server 90. The voice-mail message is also processed by speech recognizer 50 to provide a voice-mail index and/or transcription for storage in data store 100. The voice-mail index and/or transcription comprises a text message 68 which can be displayed on the display screen 14. The voice-mail index may be generated, for example, by using the natural language parser services of the search engine interface to extract suitable index information, such as the name of the caller and the topic of the call. The index may also include a numeric indicator corresponding to the length of the message. This length indicator may be suitably derived from the file size of the retrieved voice-mail message.
One particularly useful embodiment of the invention employs a rule-based system for handling how messages are presented. The rule-based system may be implemented as a plurality of rules. Each rule contains three main parts: a condition, a message, and an action. The condition describes when the rule should be activated, based on such information as time, caller id information, location etc. The message is a textual representation of the message that will be played back and may include variables like caller name, time, location etc. The action is an action that is be performed. Examples of such actions include: accept call, reject call, forward call to a certain number or a voicemail system, place a call a certain number etc.
The rules can be generated in a variety of ways. In one preferred embodiment rules are generated using one or more of the of the following approaches: (a) manually generated/edited by the user (b) in combination with use of PIM (Personal Information Management) software, and/or (c) suggested by some a software or human agent that monitors the user's activity.
Yet another embodiment of the invention provides a productivity tool that will allow the user to listen to e-mail messages, and prepare a suitable response even under noisy conditions where the speech recognizer may perform numerous recognition errors.
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Thus, the user ascertains the relative complexity of the required response at step 112. If a simple response can be composed, the user dictates it at step 114, whereupon the system transcribes the reply at step 116 (using the techniques described above). The transcribed reply is then sent as an e-mail message at step 118, preferably during the e-mail reading session or shortly thereafter.
If the response is deemed to be too complex for a simple reply, the user can instead elect at step 112 to merely dictate user notes as indicated at step 120. These notes could include, for example, portions of an e-mail reply that may be sent at a later time. Thus the user could indicate to whom the reply should be sent, the subject that would be included in the subject line or "regarding" line of the e-mail message, together with any other simple communications the user may wish to include. In addition, the user can also dictate his or her notes, thereby preserving the user's thought processes and ideas on how the complex e-mail message may be responded to. These user-dictated notes are transcribed at step 122 so that they may be sent to the server at step 124 for subsequent access by the user. In addition, the user's dictated notes are also stored as digital audio data in association with the transcribed notes. In the presently preferred embodiment, the user's dictated notes are processed to filter out long gaps of silence (non-speech) as at 126. Filtering out silence makes it easier for the user to replay these notes at a later time, because he or she does not need to wait during the non-speech gaps. After filtering, the audio data can be compressed at 128 using any suitable audio compression algorithm. Compression is presently preferred because it reduces the size of the digital audio file and reduces the amount of time required to send it to the server.
It will be appreciated that the productivity tool of this embodiment allows the user to respond to e-mail messages in whatever way seems most appropriate at the time, given the user's current preparedness and given any possible speech recognition constraints imposed by a noisy environment. Thus the user could, for example, handle many e-mail messages while driving in the car or waiting in line.
Any e-mail message responses that are not immediately sent as e-mail replies at step 118 are available for further processing by the user at a later time. The user does this at step 130 by recalling the e-mail message and its associated previously dictated notes. While the user could access this information using the mobile communication device, another scenario involves using a personal computer communicating with the server. The user could, for example, recall the previously saved messages with user-dictated notes attached and then manipulate them using his or her computer at the office or at home.
When manipulating the recalled messages, the user is able to use the transcribed notes generated at step 122 as a template for preparing a reply to the e-mail message, as illustrated at 132. If there are numerous recognition errors in a particular section of the dictated notes, the user can simply delete them and supply new text. Where the transcribed notes are useful, however, the user may keep them. In addition, the user can clip on a voice attachment icon associated with the transcribed notes as indicated at step 134. This causes the system to replay the digital audio voice attachment associated with the transcribed notes. In this way, the user can be reminded of his or her thoughts on how to respond to the message. Based on these thoughts, the user can further edit the transcribed notes as at 136. Once the user is satisfied with the final edited product, it can be sent as an e-mail message at step 138.
Yet another use of the personalized agent as a productivity tool is to use the portable device to dictate e-mail messages, memoranda and "notes-to-self" that may not necessarily be in reply to an incoming e-mail or voice mail message. Thus, the device may be used to generate many different types of messages, memoranda and reminders that are then transcribed and also stored as audio data.
A further embodiment of the personalized agent involves the application of tags, labels and macro commands (hereinafter generally referred to as tags) to an e-mail or voice mail message. The tags may me added by either voice command or by manipulating keypad buttons on the portable device. Such tags would then be attached to or associated with a particular message. For example a user could "tag" a message by speaking the word "important" and the system would apply an "important" tag to that message. Later, when reviewing messages, the user could see that this one was labeled as important. Of course, tags can be applied to newly dictated messages as well as replies to incoming voice mail or e-mail.
As discussed above a tag can be presented as text associated with a given message. However, other uses of tags are also envisioned. Tags can be used to automatically route the message to a particular file, or to forward the message to a particular destination or recipient. The user may, for example, use such tags to invoke macro commands capable of performing multiple tasks. For example, the user could construct a macro that would send or forward a given message to a list of mail recipients.
To implement the tags feature, the presently preferred embodiment is configured to recognize certain keypad commands and/or voiced commands as serving a tagging function. These may be stored in the system, either in the portable device or on a server that communicates with the portable device. In effect, pressing a predetermined keypad button (or sequence of buttons) or speaking a predetermined command is treated by the system as constituting an instruction to attach a tag to the message currently being processed. In one embodiment, these tags are predefined by the user and stored for later use. In a more powerful embodiment, the system employs a tag creation command by which the user can define new tags, "on the fly," as the system is being used.
The description of the invention is merely exemplary in nature and, thus, variations that do not depart from the gist of the invention are intended to be within the scope of the invention. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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