138 results about "Voice chat" patented technology

An apparatus, system, and method to transcribe a voice chat session initiated from a text chat session. The system includes a chat server, a voice server, and a transcription engine. The chat server is configured to facilitate a text chat session between multiple instant messaging clients. The voice server is coupled to the chat server and configured to facilitate a transition from the text chat session to a voice chat session between the multiple instant messaging clients. The transcription engine is coupled to the voice server and configured to generate a voice transcription of the voice chat session. The voice transcription may be aggregated into a text chat history.

Methods and systems for providing dynamic emoticons during chat sessions across game consoles are disclosed. A dynamic emoticon may include haptic, visual, and/or auditory components. Each component may have an associated intensity level, e.g., based on a pressure with which a user of the game console presses a controller button or actuates a control input. The emoticon's auditory component may include or identify a sound effects filter or a known audio file; the emoticon's visual component may include or identify a visual effects filter or a known video or graphic file; the emoticon's haptic component may cause vibration of or force feedback on the controller. Emoticons may be sent from one voice chat participant's game console to another voice chat participant's game console across a network such as the Internet.

An object of the present invention is to present a voice chat system suitable for networked games. The voice chat system of the present invention comprises a plurality of game apparatuses connected to a communications network and a server apparatus that manages voice chat between the game apparatuses. The server apparatus obtains from a game apparatus the IP address of the game apparatus which is to be the partner for the voice chat. The voice information inputted into the game apparatus is relayed over the IP network as a VoIP packet and is delivered to the chat partner's game apparatus via the server apparatus. Through this configuration, chat sounds are not outputted to all game apparatuses connected to the network but, instead, are outputted only to the game apparatuses specified by a player, so the object can be achieved without an increase in network traffic above what is necessary.

A method and system for providing an out-of-game voice chat service over an online gaming environment is disclosed. A game console may provide a voice chat mode as part of a native application running on the game console. A user of the game console can establish a voice chat session and communicate with users of other game consoles connected to the online gaming environment by navigating menus as part of the game console's default system application.

A voice chat system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses that performs a voice chat while performing speech recognition and a search server connected to the plural information processing apparatuses via a communication network. The search server discloses a search keyword list containing the search keywords searched by the search server to at least one of the plural information processing apparatuses. The at least one information processing apparatus includes a recognition word dictionary generating unit that acquires the search keyword list from the search server to generate a recognition word dictionary containing words for use in the speech recognition, and a speech recognition unit that performs speech recognition on voice data obtained from a dialog of the conversation during the voice chat by referencing a recognition database containing the recognition word dictionary.

The invention discloses a chat emotion input method and device, and relates to the technical field of input methods. The method comprises the following steps: presetting a character sequence and/ or a corresponding relation between the character sequence and each emotion; collecting voice chat resource data and emotion resource data of each topic according to the corresponding relation; creating the emotion resource data based on the emotion type by utilizing the voice chat resource data; receiving an input sequence input by a user; analyzing the input sequence according to the corresponding relation; matching the input sequence and the character sequence and/ or words or phrase sequence to obtain the emotion of each topic corresponding to the character sequence and/ or the words or phrase sequence; sequencing the emotion of each topic, and displaying as an candidate item at a client. With the adoption of the chat emotion input method and device, the emotions of various topics can be conveniently provided to the user while the user inputs, and thus the user emotion input efficiency is raised.

A network collaboration system facilitates collaborations between network clients having access to a digital network. The system uses audio mixes to provide different levels of voice conferences between the meeting participants. In a main collaboration, those participating in the main collaboration receive an audio output that includes audio inputs from the other participants. A subset group of clients may also have a voice chat, in which their audio inputs are removed from the outputs delivered to the clients not participating in the voice chat. Meanwhile, the participants in the voice chat hear each other at full volume, but hear the collaborators who are not part of the voice chat at a reduced volume.

The invention discloses a voice chatting method capable of improving the efficiency of voice information learning for users. The method is achieved through mobile terminals and a server. The method includes the following steps that 1) at least two users set up a voice chatting environment respectively through the mobile terminals where the users are; 2) in the voice chatting environment, each user uses the mobile terminal where the user is to record, and voice of users is converted into voice data to be sent to the server; 3) the received voice data are analyzed through the server to obtain corresponding literal contents; 4) the server integrates the voice data and the corresponding literal contents of the voice data into chatting information, and the chatting information is sent to each mobile terminal in the voice chatting environment; 5) chatting information is displayed each user through each mobile terminal. According to the voice chatting method, voice information is needless to be listened sentence by sentence, all voice chatting contents can be directly obtained on a screen, convenience and efficiency of the users for obtaining the contents are greatly improved, and time is saved for the users.

The invention discloses an information processing method and a device, and belongs to the field of the internet information processing technology. The method comprises the following steps of receiving the voice chatting information; identifying the key information in the voice chatting information, and acquiring the additional multimedia information corresponding to the key information; and synthesizing the additional multimedia information with the voice chatting information to obtain the synthesized information, wherein the synthesized information is played by at least one of voice chatting clients corresponding to the voice chatting information. Compared with the prior art wherein only the voice-modified treatment or the tone-modified treatment of the voice chatting information can be realized, the additional multimedia information is synthesized into the voice chatting information based on the above method. Therefore, the treatment modes of the voice chatting information are enriched. The treatment flexibility of the voice chatting information is improved.

A method and system provides the ability to identify phone numbers and alphanumeric sequences in a text source such as a web page and format them and/or convert them into usable information. According to one aspect, the invention automatically identifies and formats phone numbers in web pages so that they can be automatically dialed using VoIP or PSTN phone services. According to other aspects, the formatted phone number can be provided to any network voice applications, such as voice-over IP (VOIP) solutions, voice chat, voice IM, and wireless, WiFi, and WiMax connections. According to additional aspects, the invention can be integrated with internet browsing applications to allow automatic dialing of phone numbers over VOIP services or PSTN services. According to still other aspects, the invention allows technical support, electronic commerce, customer support numbers, phone numbers for product ordering, etc., on company web pages to be identified and dialed with a mouse click. According to yet other aspects, a search engine provider using the invention can charge an advertiser for phone calls placed to the advertiser, which are far more valuable than “clicks” on advertiser links, thereby reducing the “click fraud” problem afflicting current search engine technology.

The invention discloses an intelligent sound box. The sound box comprises a voice processing module for receiving and identifying voice information sent by a user, and analyzing the voice message, wherein the voice information comprises a voice instruction or voice data, the voice instruction is contained in a preset voice instruction set, the voice instruction set comprises multiple instructionsand function operations corresponding to the multiple instructions, and when the analysis result is the voice instruction, converting the voice instruction according to the voice instruction set; andan instruction execution module for executing corresponding function operations according to the converted voice instruction and a voice instruction type. The invention further discloses a system andmethod for realizing a social function based on the intelligent sound box. The social function can be added to the intelligent sound box to achieve smooth voice chat of users, and thus enriching the practicability and the entertainment of the product.

The invention relates to the technical field of multimedia, and discloses an information processing method and electronic equipment. The method is applied into first electronic equipment and comprises concrete steps of obtaining first voice data in the communication process of the first electronic equipment and second electronic equipment; obtaining a first control command based on the first voice data; sending the first voice data and the first control command to the second electronic equipment to enable the second electronic equipment to play the first voice data and generate an assistant effect for assisting the first voice data based on the first control command in the process of playing the first voice data. The corresponding control command is generated directly by the voice chat content generated by a user of the first electronic equipment, a corresponding assisting effect is further generated, and other operations do not need to be detected and responded, so the technical effect of greater convenience in control over the communication process is achieved.

The invention discloses a method and device for realizing chat on a mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps: when starting a video chat function with an opposite-end user for a user, starting a common chat function with the opposite-end user for the user at the same time; and displaying common chat content generated when the user uses the common chat function in video chat process with the opposite-end user to the upper layer of a chat video generated during using the video chat function. According to the method and device for realizing chat on the mobile terminal, when the video chat function with the opposite-end user is started for the user, the common chat function with the opposite-end user is also started for the user, and the common chat content is displayed on the upper layer of the chat video, so that the user is allowed to check real-time messages during video chatting, and interaction of the users is improved; and especially when the user only needs to watch the video but not needs to carry out voice chat, the user can directly carry out text chat, thereby greatly facilitating the user to carry out communication in an instant messaging mode on the mobile terminal.

The invention discloses a method and device for remotely monitoring embedded physiological information. The device comprises a physiological information collector for detecting the physiological information, a microprocessor for receiving physiological information and converting the physiological information into digital information and also receiving an operational order from a master control computer, a memory for receiving and storing physiological parameter data and video data from the master control computer, a remote monitoring terminal for controlling the collection process of each physiological parameter collector, a USB (universal serial bus) camera for recording digital video data on the real-time health status of a patient and storing the digital video data in the memory by the maser control computer, a router for linking a remote collection terminal of the physiological information with Internet, a voice communication unit for providing online voice chat between the patient and a doctor, and an embedded WEB server for interacting with a browser-side program. According to the method and device, the various physiological information of the patient can be remotely monitored in real time in community and family environments.

A communication system provides a user with the ability to redirect telephone calls to a voice chat account and vice versa. In one example, a voice chat gateway may receive communication requests and determine whether communications directed to a first party is to be redirected. If so, the voice chat gateway may reroute the communication request to an appropriate destination. For instance, a user may request that all communications such as telephone calls be rerouted as a voice chat to the user's voice chat account. Alternatively, a user may request that all communications including voice chats be redirected to a telephone number. Users may further be allowed to call a voice chat account through a telephone network and initiate a voice chat with a telephone number through a data network.

The invention relates to a method and a device for extracting voice content. The method comprises the steps: acquiring a keyword for extracting voice content, wherein the keyword is a text or voice segment; searching for received voice chatting records according to the keyword, and extracting a voice chatting record in which the voice content is matched with the keyword; displaying the voice content of the extracted voice chatting record in the form of text information. According to the invention, the voice chatting record related to the keyword can be extracted based on the voice content of the chatting record so as to facilitate the timely and comprehensive understanding of chatting information by users.

The invention discloses a user state reminding method and a reminding system. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring user voice; analyzing the user voice; and transmitting a nasal abnormity state reminding signal if nasal abnormity is analyzed in the user voice. By acquiring the user voice in user's voice chat or conservation in daily lives, determining the nasal abnormity in the user voice in accordance with the user voice and transmitting the nasal abnormity reminding information to the user, the reminding method and the reminding system disclosed by the invention can remind the user to pay attention to possible health problems in the body in accordance with a user nasal abnormity analysis result, so as to cause user's concern for his body health; and the reminding method and the reminding system are simple and convenient in user state identifying and reminding processes, and user experiences are improved.