Speech recognition function

摘要

An integrated computer-telephone system includes a personal computer Ä141Ü and a plurality of telephone sets Ä104A....104NÜ. Each of the telephone sets is connected to an adapter Ä202A....202NÜ, and to a telephone network Ä106Ü via a telephone line. The personal computer controls the telephone sets via control Ä318Ü and communication Ä316Ü channels that do not interfere with regular signal transmission between the telephone sets and the telephone network. When coupled to the communication channel each of the telephone sets is able to send a speech command to the personal computer to invoke Ä602,604Ü a specific operational feature of the system. The personal computer interprets the speech command and generates corresponding control commands for the operational feature. Via the control channel the personal computer sends the control commands to the adapters that are connected to the telephone sets and controls the operation of the telephone sets. The speech command can be the name of a person, the computer identifies the person, retrieves the telephone number from store Ä506Ü and dials the number. The speech command can be an intercom command. <IMAGE>