Mobile device having voice user interface, and a method for testing the compatibility of an application with the mobile device

• Main Authors: VITIKAINEN TIMO, BODA PETER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.10.2010
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A mobile device or MS having voice user interface (UI) as part of its multimodal input/output capabilities is provided with a storage area for storing a profile indicating the voice UI capabilities. The profile indicates the automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, vocabulary and grammar capabilities, amongst others. An application, such as a diary program or one allowing entry into a lotto, is initialized on the MS with reference to the profile. When the application is run, the profile is referred to such that parts of the application which are appropriate to the profile are run whilst those which are inappropriate to the profile are not run. Alternatively, the application may be run on a voice UI application server forming part of a base station. An emulator for testing an application using a profile of a target device is also disclosed.