1. An enhancement of the speech recognition system described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192.
2. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a telephone call automatic transcription or indexing system specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 using VoIP telephone systems.
3. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein A network based transcription or indexing system specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 using personal computers as input and output devices where the audio and relative text transcripts are provided to all user locations or a central location.
4. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a single user telephone dictation system specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 and a telephone connection that calls a computer system running software that executes code to perform the tasks taught in Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192.
5. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a hosted business model specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 for a remote dictation or indexing service where users pay a per-call, per-minute, or monthly fee for service usage.
6. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a hosted business model system specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 for a telephone call transcription or indexing services where users pay a per-call, per minute, or monthly fee for service usage.
7. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a conference room product specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 where the product is provided to companies that use the product for the purposes of providing on site transcription or indexing services.
8. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a text messaging service specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 where spoken audio is used as the input to a device and the text events are used to take specific actions including sending SMS messages and inserting specific text, graphics, or numbers to a target cell phone or hand held computer.
9. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a text messaging service specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 where spoken audio is sent to a target user’s voice mail.
10. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a voice mail to text product or service specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 where the output of the system from a person leaving voice mail, is to provide text in the form of an electronic document, printed document, or SMS text message.
11. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a telephone call monitoring server specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 where telephone calls are recorded using a passive network RTP listening method resulting with the audio-text event information that can be search him ed and reviewed.
12. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a search, index, and cataloging method specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 where each event is indexed and cataloged for searching, sorting, filtered, edit, printed, audio playback, exporting, and events presented using an MVL Browsing tool.
13. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a Multi-user Voice Log that is an unalterable single file that is digitally encrypted and signed using MD5, DES, or other method to ensure that the specifically a Multi-user Voice Log file has not been changed from its original state.
14. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a method of adding sound alike words and rhymes to indexes for the purpose of increasing audio search accuracy specifically using Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 where each event is indexed and cataloged for searching, sorting, filtered, edit, printed, audio playback, exporting, and events presented using an MVL Browsing tool.
15. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a method of editing audio files by event specifically using the event format as taught in Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 where an audio event can be added, deleted, copied, imported, exported, or modified.
16. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein a data analysis tool based specifically based on Poirier’s U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 where statistics can be gathered on a library or collection of events and displayed in the form of charts, graphs, counts of specific information for the purpose of illustrating trends or patterns of behaviors.
17. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein an audio search method using speech recognition to locate keywords or phrases in audio file(s), then converting audio files that contain the target keywords to events specifically using Poirier’s teachings in U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192, and then displaying the relative text-audio events as the
search results.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An apparatus comprising;
a speaker;
a microphone;
a wireless network interface;
a processor; and
computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on the processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:
causing the speaker to output a request for a password associated with a wireless network;
receiving audio captured by the microphone after the speaker outputs the request;
decoding the audio at least in part to identify alternative candidate passwords from the audio; and
submitting, one at a time, at least one of the alternative candidate passwords to a component of the wireless network until the wireless network interface successfully connects to the wireless network or until each of the alternative candidate passwords has been submitted;
wherein the decoding utilizes a language model, the acts further comprising:
identifying a candidate password of the alternative candidate passwords that, upon submittal to the component of the wireless network, results in the wireless network interface successfully connecting to the wireless network; and
sending the candidate password of the alternative candidate passwords over the wireless network and to an entity to allow the entity to train the language model or another language model using the candidate password of the alternative candidate passwords.
2. An apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the request instructs a user to spell the password associated with the wireless network.
3. An apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the submitting comprises submitting the alternative candidate passwords in accordance with a ranked list of the alternative candidate passwords.
4. An apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein:
each of the alternative candidate passwords is associated with at least one of: a probability or confidence level that the audio includes a sequence of sounds representing the respective candidate password, or a probability or confidence level that the audio includes a sequence of sounds representing a sequence of graphemes forming the respective candidate password; and
the submitting comprises submitting, one at a time, the alternative candidate passwords based at least in part on the respective probabilities or confidence levels of the alternative candidate passwords.
5. An apparatus as recited in claim 1, the acts further comprising causing the speaker to output an indication that a connection to the wireless network has been established.
6. An apparatus as recited in claim 1, the acts further comprising:
causing the speaker to output a request for an identifier of a wireless network;
receiving audio captured by the microphone after the speaker outputs the request for the identifier; and
identifying the wireless network at least partly based on the audio captured by the microphone after the speaker outputs the request for the identifier.
7. A method implemented at least in part by an electronic device coupled to a microphone, the method comprising:
determining, at least partly from audio captured by the microphone, a first candidate string of characters represented by an utterance from a user and a second candidate string of characters represented by the utterance from the user;
submitting the first candidate string of characters to a component of a network;
determining whether a connection has been established with the network after submitting the first candidate string of characters; and
submitting the second candidate string of characters to the component of the network at least partly in response to determining that the connection with the network has not been established after submitting the first candidate string of characters.
8. A method as recited in claim 7, wherein the first candidate string of characters is a most likely string of characters represented by the utterance of the user and the second candidate string of characters is a next most likely string of characters represented by the utterance of the user.
9. A method as recited in claim 7, wherein the submitting of the first candidate string of characters and the submitting of the second candidate string of characters comprises submitting each of the respective strings as a password for connecting with the network.
10. A method as recited in claim 7, further comprising instructing a user to spell a password for connecting to the network prior to determining the first candidate string of characters and the second candidate string of characters from the audio.
11. A method as recited in claim 7, wherein the determining further determines a predefined number of additional candidate strings of characters at least partly from the utterance from the user, and further comprising:
determining whether the connection has been established with the network after submitting the second candidate string of characters; and
submitting, one at a time, at least one of the additional candidate strings of characters to the component of the network.
12. Non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on a processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:
decoding audio at least in part to determine a number of alternative character strings from the audio; and
submitting, one at a time, the alternative character strings as a password until the earlier of authentication or until each of the number of alternative character strings has been submitted;
wherein the decoding utilizes a language model, the acts further comprising:
identifying a candidate character string of the alternative character strings that, upon submittal, results in authentication; and
sending the candidate character string of the alternative character strings over a wireless network and to an entity to allow the entity to train the language model or another language model using the candidate character string of the alternative character strings.
13. Non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 12, wherein each of the alternative character strings is determined with reference to a probability or confidence level that the audio includes a series of sounds representing the respective character string.
14. Non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 12, wherein each of the alternative character strings is determined with reference to a probability or confidence level that the audio includes a series of sounds representing a series of graphemes forming the respective character string.
15. Non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 12, wherein the submitting comprises submitting the alternative character strings, one at a time, in an order based at least in part on respective probabilities or confidence levels that the audio includes respective series of sounds representing the respective character strings.
16. Non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 12, wherein the submitting comprises submitting the alternative character strings, one at a time, in an order based at least in part on respective probabilities or confidence levels that the audio includes respective series of sounds representing respective series of graphemes forming the respective character strings.
17. Non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 12, wherein the submitting comprises submitting the alternative character strings, one at a time, beginning with a character string corresponding to a series of sounds that is most likely to be included in the audio.
18. Non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 12, wherein the submitting comprises submitting the alternative character strings, one at a time, beginning with a character string corresponding to a series of graphemes corresponding to a series of sounds that is most likely to be included in the audio.
19. Non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 12, wherein the authentication is effective to grant access to an online account, a wireless network account, a wired network account, a computing device, an application, or a content item.
20. Non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 12, the acts further comprising ranking the alternative character strings, and wherein the submitting of the alternative character strings comprises submitting the alternative character strings, one at a time, in accordance with the ranking.
21. Non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 12, the acts further comprising outputting an indication of whether or not access to an account has been received.
22. Non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 12, the acts further comprising outputting a request that a user utter the password for an account.
23. Non-transitory computer-readable media as recited in claim 12, the acts further comprising outputting a request that a user spell the password for an account.