Speech recognition for internet video search and navigation

摘要

Speech representing a desired video site or video subject is detected and digitized at a TV remote, and then sent to a TV. The TV or in some embodiments an Internet server communicating with the TV use speech recognition principles to recognize the speech, enter a database using the recognized speech as entering argument, and return a link to an Internet site hosting the desired video. The link can be displayed on the TV for selection thereof by a user to retrieve the video.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
a TV communicating with the Internet; at least one remote control device wirelessly communicating with the TV; at least one microphone on the remote control device, the remote control device digitizing speech signals of a viewer of the TV and representing a viewer desired video site or video subject from the microphone and sending the signals to the TV; at least one processor coupled to the TV and implementing speech recognition on received speech signals representing a desired video site or video subject to generate recognized speech; and the processor accessing at least one database containing at least one index correlating speech with Internet addresses using the recognized speech to return at least one Internet address of an Internet site, wherein the database includes at least one index derived by the processor from closed captioned text in a televised video program received by the TV and provided to the processor.