Personal home voice portal

摘要

A method of accessing voice services through a personal computing system can include receiving, in the personal computing system, a telephone call from a user registered with the personal computing system, wherein the user is remotely located from the personal computing system, receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call, and speech recognizing the user spoken utterance to determine a request for a voice service. The method further can include formatting an electronic message according to the request for a voice service and sending the electronic message over a communications network to a remote computing system in accordance with the request for a voice service. Also, the method can include processing and formatting a response received from the remote computing system and playing back audio to the user over the telephone call.

主权项

1. A method for remotely requesting information and/or services from at least one remote service server through a personal computer, the method comprising steps of:
receiving, at the personal computer, a telephone call from a user that is registered with the personal computer, wherein the telephone call is a call originating from a device remote from the personal computer; receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call; performing speech recognition on the user spoken utterance to determine a request for information and/or a service; formatting an electronic message according to the request; using one or more client software applications executing on the personal computer to send the electronic message over a communication network from the personal computer to the at least one remote service server and to receive content at the personal computer from the at least one remote service server; converting the content to speech audio at the personal computer; and playing the speech audio to the user over the telephone call.