JP2019195149A - Computer system, computer program, and method for group voice communication and past voice confirmation - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a voice bulletin board that enables easy viewing check of new contributions and past contributions to a plurality of channels at the same time in an appropriate order and also enables a form close to dialogues.SOLUTION: A computer system serializes a set of voice units belonging to a plurality of channels according to a predetermined priority standard and reproduces from a terminal. The priority standard is 1) newness of recording time of each voice unit belonging to the plurality of channels designated by a user, 2) priority among the plurality of channels designated by the user, and 3) the priority of key words designated by the user or the degree of including the keywords included in a text produced by automatic voice recognition of the voice unit or a text associated with the voice unit, and a limit that goes back to the past can be designated by date and time. It is possible to switch a manner mode, a sleep mode, a dialog mode, and a multiple monitoring mode designating the priority standard by manual operation by the user, voice recognition, or automatic scheduling.SELECTED DRAWING: None

Description

The present invention relates to a computer system, a computer program, and a method for group voice communication and past voice confirmation.

Traditionally, group calls between multiple parties via the Internet have been cumbersome to operate, so casual remote well-end meetings between senior citizens and senior citizens, daily communication between family members, frequent company business communication, It was not used very much.
In addition, operations and procedures for confirming the content of the conversation later are more complicated than text chat, and have not been used much.
Patent Documents 1, 2, and 3 try to solve them to some extent, but at the same time, a plurality of channels (and straddling multiple servers) can be checked for viewing in an appropriate order (eg, serialized). In addition, it has been difficult to appropriately respond to each TPO at the time of emergency alert, manner mode, and sleep mode.

Japanese Patent Application No. 2012-110125 Japanese Patent Application No. 2017-000287 Japanese Patent Application No. 2018-074337

“SKYPE Conference Call” http://www.skype.com/intl/en/features/allfeatures/conference-calls/

Therefore, the problem to be solved by the present invention is that a new post and a past of a plurality of channels (and sometimes straddling a plurality of servers) can be easily checked for viewing in an appropriate order, To provide a voice bulletin board capable of appropriately responding to each TPO in the manner mode and the sleeping mode and capable of operation similar to a group call. In the above description and the following description, the main content is “sound”. However, a video camera with a microphone is provided on the terminal side so that a moving image (MPEG format, etc.) can be handled, and further linked with text. It is obviously possible to use multimedia composite contents (such as ZIP format). In addition, since the serialization policy of the present invention is not streaming but download playback of each expression unit, it is suitable for simultaneous display of video and text and voice synthesis, and includes video and text from the scope of the invention. It does not exclude things and things that are involved.

In order to solve this problem, claim 1 of the present invention provides:
Automatically delimited by the continuity of low volume input from the voice input device of the first terminal as a delimitation criterion or by the speciality of the input contents (pronunciation of a predetermined reserved word, etc.) Voice data corresponding to voice units (in other words, a breath and a sentence before the silence of 3 seconds, a plurality of sentences up to the coined word “Pirio Please”, etc.)
A function of transmitting and storing the voice units in the order of the input voice units;
A function of reproducing the voice units stored in the server in order from a new voice unit on the first terminal or the second terminal using communication, and a server in which the first or second terminal is a plurality of servers or subdivided servers A computer system having a function of accessing or acquiring a plurality of URIs (hereinafter referred to as a plurality of channels) to acquire or reproduce a sound unit,
A computer system is provided that has a function of playing back a set of audio units belonging to a plurality of channels from a first or second terminal in the order in which the computer serialized according to a predetermined priority standard.
Note that it is advantageous to allow the user to instruct the switching based on the content input from the voice input device of the terminal.
: In addition, about the power of the terminal or the voice input device ON / OFF, the magnitude of the input / output volume, or a combination thereof,
It is advantageous that the user can instruct according to the contents input from the voice input device of the terminal.
: In addition, the terminal stores the audio unit stored in the server and communicated to the terminal,
It would be advantageous to be able to replay the audio unit at the next opportunity to replay without repeating the same communication again.
: In any terminal, when it is decided to start playback of audio units, or when playback of audio units ends, the corresponding audio unit to be played next or the subdivided server The terminal can make an inquiry to any one of a plurality of URIs (multiple channels). Also, it is possible to serialize on the terminal side based on a priority logic that the terminal side has by combining the results of inquiring about a plurality of channels.
: In addition to the user's remarks at the terminal as a voice unit stored in the server, each server or the corresponding user layer associated with each of a plurality of URIs of the subdivided server listens for refreshment. You can also store music you want to learn, text you want to study, or a series of news articles.
As a result, it is possible to efficiently check conversations and business contacts of a plurality of groups and to make comments / responses without trouble.

Further, claim 2 of the present invention provides
The predetermined priority criterion is
2. The computer system according to claim 1, which is a recording time (start time, end time, central time, etc.) of each audio unit belonging to one or a plurality of channels designated by a user.
: By going back to the past in order from the new audio unit of the recording time (when a new audio unit is generated (posted to the channel) during the retroactive time, it will be played back in an appropriate order not too late) Both dialogue and past checks can be made compatible.
In this case, in an advantageous embodiment, the newly recorded audio units (over multiple channels) are given higher priority (i.e. played back first) and then back to the older audio units. If a new audio unit is recorded (in one of the specified channel set) from the first audio unit played back in the middle, the current audio unit is played, and < After pushing the set of the position to be played next (may be specified by date / time / minute / second) and the end position of the retroactive date (which may also be specified by date / minute / second) to the dedicated stack structure, After playing the newly recorded audio unit (or the audio unit “collection” when multiple new recordings are made) (in the case of “aggregation”, with priority within that set), And pop from the click, it is possible to return to the recursive to the original dates back.
: In addition, in order to inform the user who mainly listens to the sound by using this dedicated stack, the contents of the stack are displayed on the screen, and the server and terminal are discontinuous. It is also possible to clearly indicate the contents of the general control with synthesized speech or the like. It should be noted that, with emphasis on urgency, it is possible to perform a program so as to perform the discontinuous control by interrupting the reproduction without being completed.
As a result, even for a plurality of channels whose results change with time, it is possible to view the latest, that is, more important content (close to the results) first.

Moreover, Claim 3 of the present invention is as follows.
The predetermined priority criterion is
The computer system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the computer system is a priority order among a plurality of channels designated by a user.
: For example, if channel 1 is to be given priority over channel 2, the terminal or server is programmed or set so that the audio unit that has been recorded at the same time is played back with priority given to the channel belonging to the priority channel. be able to.
: In addition, when priority between channels is given priority over the newness of recording time, it is possible to program so that the time goes back in units of audio belonging to the same channel in each channel according to the priority between channels. it can. In this case, the storage unit of the dedicated stack is <which channel is being played back, which audio unit is to be played next, and which audio unit is to be played back at the end (the date and time limit) If specified)>
: As an aspect of prioritization, when an emergency channel flag is set, etc., a program that interrupts and plays back a new audio unit of the emergency channel without interrupting the completion of playback of the currently played audio unit You can also
> This makes it easier for the user to follow the flow of the story because the theme is less frequent when viewing multiple channels. In addition, it is easy to save the cost of synthesizing the number of the channel to be reproduced or the number of the unit of speech when going back and forth between channels.

Further, claim 4 of the present invention provides
The predetermined priority criterion is
Included in text with automatic speech recognition of speech units or text linked to speech units,
The computer system is provided according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which is a priority level of a keyword designated by a user, a degree of including a keyword, or a combination thereof.
: As texts linked to voice units, words such as hashtags and captioned sentences can be considered. By downloading these to the terminal and storing them at the same time as downloading the voice units, Obviously, this is possible.
As a result, according to the degree of matching with interest, etc., it is possible to view with priority (= efficiently) from a plurality of channels and the like with less time and effort for the user.

The fifth aspect of the present invention provides
The computer system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein a limit that goes back by date and time can be specified.
: As an example of designating the limit going back by date and time, a voice unit that ended recording before 00: 00: 00: 00 on May 1, 2018 is removed from the priority order. This designation may be a constant as described above, and may be designated within 24 hours from the current time, within the current business day, or the like. The implementation algorithm for removing from the priority order is self-explanatory, but it should be implemented by, for example, controlling the evaluation score of audio units exceeding the limit uniformly to 0, or controlling to search for each monthly archive folder of audio units. Can do.
As a result, it is possible to avoid the adverse effect that the reproduction of the latest audio unit of other channels is delayed too much by going back only to a specific channel according to the priority between channels.

Further, claim 6 of the present invention provides
The predetermined priority criterion is
Manually by the user, with voice recognition by the user, or with an automatic schedule
A computer system according to any one of claims 1 to 5 configured to be switchable is provided.
: Here, the following can be cited as examples of priority standard switching targets: “Interactive mode 1 to 9”: Dialogue only with channels of a predetermined URI corresponding to numbers 1 to 9 Mode (user's speech is recorded only on that channel).
・ "Multiple monitoring mode": A mode in which a plurality of specified channels are watched simultaneously with a predetermined priority (programmed to prohibit user's speech or recording to all channels simultaneously) it can)
“Sleeping mode”: The terminal side is programmed so that the user inquires, downloads and plays back only the new recording of only the channel indicated by the flag in the setting file on the terminal side as an emergency alarm.
"Manner mode": The terminal is programmed to play only when an earphone is inserted into the earphone jack. When not reproducing, it is also possible to display a text obtained by voice recognition of the content to be reproduced (sound unit) on the terminal screen.
・ "Off mode": Sleep mode that does not play back emergency alerts. A transition is made to this mode by operating a predetermined button on the terminal or by voice recognition of a predetermined reserved word. However, there is also an option that can shift to the predetermined mode (/ channel number) by voice recognition.
> This eliminates the need to set specific priorities according to the scene.

Also of the present invention. Claim 7.
A computer program for use in the computer system according to any one of claims 1 to 6 is provided.

Further, claim 8 of the present invention provides
A communication method using the computer system according to any one of claims 1 to 6 is provided. To do.

It is explanatory drawing which shows operation | movement of the computer program by the side of the client (terminal) in one Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows operation | movement of the computer program on the server side in one Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which showed operation | movement of the computer program by the side of a terminal (client) in another embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which showed operation | movement of the server side program in another embodiment.

In the best embodiment, the maximum posting time in audio units can be set according to the policy for each server (from 5 seconds to 30 minutes, average 30 seconds). Some have the ability to automatically divide and post so that doesn't get too long.
The user can set the following for the server and the terminal.
・ Subscribing channel set (a set of server URIs (including channel numbers in the server)) and their serial numbers on user terminals ・ Current main mode (dialogue, multiple monitoring, manners, sleeping) and submode (voice unit) Priority on newness of posting / priority prioritization within each channel (The retroactive limit date can be set from 1 hour, 1 day, 3 business days, 1 week)
・ Emergency channel number set (plays any new content added to those channels in any case)
-Channel number in interactive mode (only one. Date / time range restriction can be set. If there is no restriction, it goes back forever. In any case, the default is to interrupt new content when new content is added. (In the order of newest for multiple contents), then go back to the place before interruption. Some modes do not return to the previous place.
In the case of the multiple monitoring mode, the client side views and listens to a set of contents belonging to a plurality of channels with priorities (points). The client obtains the information necessary for giving this score (how many contents are registered in which channel and how many contents exist) to the server by GET.
-The client downloads the necessary content and plays it in order of priority.
-In the manner mode, the fact that there has been an update about the multiple viewing channel set and the emergency channel is displayed only visually.
・ In the sleep mode, only the latest emergency channel that has been updated is played back (Alarms should be audible before playback)

Claims (8)

Automatically delimited by the continuity of low volume input from the voice input device of the first terminal as a delimiter criterion, or by speciality of the input content (pronunciation of a predetermined reserved word, etc.) Voice data corresponding to voice units (in other words, a breath and a sentence before the silence of 3 seconds, a plurality of sentences up to the coined word “Pirio Please”, etc.)
A function of transmitting and storing the voice units in the order of the input voice units;
A function of reproducing the voice units stored in the server in order from a new voice unit on the first terminal or the second terminal using communication, and a server in which the first or second terminal is a plurality of servers or subdivided servers A computer system having a function of accessing or acquiring a plurality of URIs (hereinafter referred to as a plurality of channels) to acquire or reproduce a sound unit,
A computer system comprising a function of playing back a set of audio units belonging to a plurality of channels from a first or second terminal in an order serialized by a computer according to a predetermined priority standard. The predetermined priority criterion is
The computer system according to claim 1, which is a recording time (start time, end time, central time, etc.) of each voice unit belonging to one or a plurality of channels designated by the user. The predetermined priority criterion is
The computer system according to claim 1, wherein the priority is a priority order among a plurality of channels designated by a user. The predetermined priority criterion is
Included in text with automatic speech recognition of speech units or text linked to speech units,
The computer system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which is a priority level of a keyword designated by a user, a degree to which the keyword is included, or a combination thereof. The computer system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein a limit that goes back by date and time can be specified. The predetermined priority criterion is
Manually by the user, with voice recognition by the user, or with an automatic schedule
The computer system according to claim 1, wherein the computer system is configured to be switchable. The computer program used with the computer system as described in any one of Claim 1 to 6. A communication method using the computer system according to claim 1.

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