JP2001222494A - Device, system and method for retrieving communication address - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily acquire a communication address and to improve an advertisement effect also. SOLUTION: When a client 100 inputs a keyword for acquiring a URL by a voice format, a retrieving server 300 retrieves a URL corresponding to the inputted voice from a sound element string/URL storage means and returns its retrieved result to the client 100. A keyword for acquiring the URL of a home page of a commodity information provider includes at least a company name and a commodity name.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a communication address searching apparatus, system and method suitable for using a Web service or electronic mail on the Internet or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a communication network called the Internet, WWW (World Wide Wed) is used.
Using a protocol called b), mixed data of images, sounds, and documents can be transferred between computers. Therefore, there is a network communication method in which a computer that provides information (hereinafter referred to as a server) provides various types of information that is paid or free, and a computer that reads the information (hereinafter referred to as a client) accesses the server and receives the information. Established. A communication service using the WWW protocol is called a web service. When trying to receive Internet Web services, the client uses a communication program called a browser. The browser has a communication function for communicating with other clients and servers on the Internet, and a data conversion function for converting communication data so that a user can check the communication data.

[0003] With the spread of the Internet, communication addresses of a plurality of servers (in the case of Web services, U
Servers that provide information on RLs (Uniform Resource Locators, e-mail addresses in the case of e-mail), server names, and provided information have also appeared. Such a search function or server is called a search engine.

[0004]

When a client accesses a Web server or stored information (homepage) on a Web server using a browser, the user inputs a URL using a keyboard. URL is a character
It is composed of numbers and symbols, and the number of characters may be 10 or more.

[0005] The browser has a function called a bookmark in which once the access to the server is successful, the URL of the server is stored in the client. However, once this function is used, the user must access the server and enter the URL by keyboard.

[0006] Further, using a speech recognition program, U
It is also possible to input a character string constituting the RL by voice. However, it is a fact that it is complicated for the user to input a character string of 10 or more by voice. Another problem is that it is difficult to store character strings of 10 or more URLs. Further, the conventional speech recognition program has a problem that the speech recognition rate is not good.

In addition, when a client accesses a server providing a search engine and obtains a desired URL, the user has to enter a keyword for search using a keyboard.

As described above, the conventional method of obtaining a communication address such as a URL has room for improvement in terms of user's operation labor.

[0009] Also, with the recent spread of electronic commerce and the like,
Providing merchandise information through a homepage on the Web is thriving. However, the conventional method of advertising on the homepage is based solely on the information that is heard and heard by consumers, and the problem to be solved is that it is difficult to differentiate yourself from others in terms of the advertising effect of product advertising on the homepage. There was technology.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication address search device, system and method capable of acquiring a communication address of an access destination with a simple operation by voice input.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a first voice data and one or more communication addresses corresponding to the first voice data are paired. Storage means for storing a plurality of sets of data sets, input means for inputting second voice data, and a first voice data stored in the storage means similar to the second voice data input from the input means. Communication address search means for detecting voice data and obtaining a communication address corresponding to the detected first voice data as a search result; and output means for outputting the communication address obtained by the communication address search means. It is characterized by having.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the communication address search device according to the first aspect, the communication address search device is a server connected to a communication network, and the second voice data transmitted from the client. Is received by the voice input unit, and the output unit outputs a search result of the communication address to the client.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, a search server and a client are connected to a communication network, and the search server stores a plurality of sets of voice data and a data set of a communication address corresponding to the voice data. Transmitting voice data from the client to the search server, the search server detecting a communication address of at least one data set having voice data similar to the transmitted voice data, and converting the detected communication address to the search server. It is characterized by replying to the client.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the communication address search method according to the third aspect, the search server detects a plurality of data sets, and returns the detected plurality of communication addresses to the client. A predetermined communication address among the plurality of returned communication addresses is selected on the client side.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, a search server and a client are connected to a communication network, wherein the client includes transmission means for transmitting voice data to the search server, wherein the search server includes a plurality of sets of voice data. Storage means for storing a data set of a communication address corresponding to the voice data; detection means for detecting a communication address of at least one data set having voice data similar to voice data transmitted from the client; And notifying means for returning the detected communication address to the client.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication network comprising:
A first client and another client of the merchandise information provider, a second client of a general user, and a search server are connected, and the search server database includes voice data of a keyword and the second data corresponding to the voice data. A communication address of one client is stored, and voice data generated by uttering a keyword input by a user who requests product information among the general users is stored in a second memory.
From the client to the search server, the search server detects voice data of a keyword similar to the transmitted voice data, and the first client of the first client associated with the voice data obtained by the detection. The communication address is notified to the second client that has transmitted the voice data based on the utterance of the keyword.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the communication address search method according to the sixth aspect, the keyword includes at least a company name and a product name of the product information provider.

[0018] The invention of claim 8 is the communication address search method according to claim 6, wherein the first client or another client of the merchandise information provider sends the search address to the search server via the communication network. The voice data of the keyword and the communication address can be registered.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the communication address search method according to the sixth aspect, the voice data of the keyword registered in the search server is a character string indicating the reading of the keyword or an utterance of the keyword. It is characterized by being automatically generated from audio data.

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, in the communication address search method according to the sixth aspect, the first voice data and a communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered free of charge, and the first voice data is registered. When the same second voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered, the second voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered with the first voice data and the voice data. And is registered after being replaced with the communication address corresponding to.

According to an eleventh aspect of the present invention, in the communication address search method according to the sixth aspect, the first voice data and a communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered for a fee, and the first voice data is registered. When the same second voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered for a fee, the second voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data are additionally registered. .

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the communication address search method according to the sixth aspect, the first voice data and a communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered for a fee, and the first voice data is registered. When the same second voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered free of charge, the registration of the second voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data is invalidated. And

According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, in the communication address search method according to the tenth to twelfth aspects, when voice data and a communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered for a fee, the communication address is searched for. And a contact method such as an e-mail address or a telephone number can be further registered.

According to a fourteenth aspect of the present invention, in the communication address search method according to the thirteenth aspect, the expiration or expiration of the expiration of the pay service period is automatically detected, and the e-mail address or the telephone number is added. It is characterized by automatically notifying information about the expiration.

According to a fifteenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the communication address search method according to the thirteenth aspect, wherein an electronic commerce means ID such as a credit card number or a name is sent from the first client or another client of the merchandise information provider.
Is registered, and a fixed amount or an amount corresponding to the pay service period is settled via the communication network.

[0026]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 shows a functional configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the client 100 includes a voice input unit 1, a search result selection unit 7, and a URL display unit 8.

The voice input means 1 inputs a user's voice,
Output audio signal. A feature of the present embodiment is that keywords necessary for URL search, such as a company name and information type name, are input by voice.

The search result selecting means 7 is used for a search server 3 to be described later.
One of a plurality of URL candidates received from 00
L is selected, and the URL of the search result is displayed via the URL display means 8.
The homepage based on L is provided to the user.

The communication network 200 is the Internet or a telephone network. A plurality of clients 100 are connected to a communication network.

The search server 300 connected to the communication network 200 includes a voice analysis unit 2, a phoneme string / URL storage unit 3, a phoneme comparison unit 4, a search result storage unit 5, and a search result notification unit 6.

The voice analysis means 2 performs voice recognition of voice data (second voice data of the present invention) received from the client using, for example, a phoneme recognition method called a hidden Markov model. A phoneme sequence is output as a result of speech analysis.

The voice analysis means 2 includes: a technique for removing an additive noise whose sound source is known in the environment in which the speaker is used (Japanese Patent Application No. 09-051577); and a method for removing multiplicative distortion caused by reverberation and microphone characteristics. It has a correction technology (Japanese Patent Application No. 09-056018), and furthermore: a speaker adaptation technology (Japanese Patent Application No. 09-23) that raises a speech recognition rate by reflecting information of personality unique to a speaker in an acoustic model.
3035) can realize a higher speech recognition rate than a conventional speech analysis method.

The phoneme string / URL storage means 3 stores a plurality of data sets each including a phoneme string (first speech data of the present invention) and one or a plurality of URLs. The phoneme string comparison means 4 compares the phoneme string generated by the speech analysis means 2 with the phoneme strings of the data set group stored in the phoneme string / URL storage means 3 and calculates the accuracy indicating the degree of coincidence. Further, the URLs and the probabilities of the several data sets having the highest probabilities are stored in the search result storage means 5.

The search result notifying means 6 includes the search result storing means 5
Are returned to the client 100 via the communication network 200.

The search result selecting means 7 selects one URL from a plurality of sets of the received URL and accuracy by automatic selection or manual selection. The setting of the automatic selection or the manual selection is performed by the user in advance.

When the URL is automatically selected, if even one of the plurality of received accuracy exceeds the threshold, the URL having the highest accuracy is automatically selected, and all the received accuracy is equal to or less than the threshold. Occasionally, all received URLs are displayed in a list, and the user manually selects one URL from this list.

When the URL is manually selected, all received URLs are displayed in a list irrespective of the threshold value, and the user manually selects one URL from the list.

In this embodiment, it is assumed that the URL is automatically selected. The URL display means 8 is a browser that displays a homepage based on the URL selected as described above.

In such a communication network system, the user of the client 100 can acquire a URL only by inputting a keyword necessary for URL search. Further, in the conventional keyword input, a search result cannot be obtained if a keyword is misspelled, but such a problem does not occur in a voice input.

Client 100 and search server 30
FIG. 2 shows a system configuration of a computer usable as 0
Shown in

In FIG. 2, the client 100 has a CP
U11, system memory 12, hard disk 13, input device 14, output device 15, modem 16, and microphone 17 are provided. Note that an interface for connecting the above circuit to the bus is not shown.

The CPU 11 executes the program loaded in the system memory 12. System memory 12 is C
It stores input / output data for the PU 11 and programs executed by the CPU 11.

The hard disk 13 stores a program executed by the CPU 11 for the purpose of saving. Input device 1
4 has a pointing device such as a mouse and a keyboard. Although a display device or a printer can be used as the output device 15, a display device is used in the present embodiment. Depending on the form of the device, the output device may be a communication interface.

The modem 16 connects to the Internet and transmits and receives data. When a digital communication system such as ISDN is used for the communication line, the modem 16 uses a communication device called a terminal adapter. The microphone 17 is used for voice input.

The hard disk on the client 100 side stores the program shown in FIG. 4, and the hard disk on the search server 300 side stores the program shown in FIG. 3, a phoneme string / URL database and a speech recognition program used for communication address search. ing. Phoneme sequence / URL
The database is a database having a plurality of data sets each including a phoneme string representing a company name and information content name associated with a URL, and a URL (character code string form) corresponding to the phoneme string. The speech recognition program converts the speech data into a phoneme sequence.

The URL search processing will be described with reference to FIGS.

When the user wants to know the URL, first, the input / output program of FIG. 4 stored in the hard disk of the client 100 is started by the instruction from the input device. In response to this instruction, the CPU loads the program of FIG. 4 stored in the hard disk into the system memory and executes it, as in the related art.

The user inputs a keyword for searching for a communication address from a microphone by voice. The voice input from the microphone is converted into a voice signal and input to the CPU.

After the CPU temporarily stores the voice signal input from the microphone in the system memory, the CPU accesses the search server 300 having a predetermined URL, and transmits the input voice data to the search server 300 (FIG. 4). Steps S200 to S210).

The CPU on the client 100 side thereafter
The search server 300 waits for a search result to be returned (loop processing of step S220).

On the other hand, when the CPU of the search server 300 receives the access from the client 100 (steps S100 → S110 in FIG. 3), the CPU analyzes the speech using the speech recognition program (step S120).

Using the result of the speech analysis, the CPU
A phoneme string / URL database on the hard disk is searched, and a data set having a similar phoneme string is searched. As a simple example, the Viterbi algorithm may be used. Calculate the accuracy indicating the degree of coincidence between the phoneme strings of all the data sets of the phoneme string / URL database and the voice data received from the client, and calculate a data set having a certainty greater than the first threshold value in the calculation result. As a search result, a set of the URL and its accuracy is stored in the system memory (step S130).

The CPU returns the obtained search result to the accessing client 100 (step S14).
0). The CPU of the client 100 detects the reply from the search server 300 in step S220 in FIG. 4, and stores a plurality of sets of the returned URL and accuracy in the internal system memory. Next, the CPU sorts the plurality of sets returned by the sorting process in ascending order of accuracy, and compares the accuracy of each set with a second threshold (first threshold <second threshold) (step S230). .

If there is a URL having a certainty greater than or equal to the second threshold, the URL having the highest certainty value is retrieved from the system memory and the home page of the selected URL is displayed on the display device (steps S240 → S250). .

If there is no URL having a certainty greater than the second threshold, the CPU displays all sets of URLs on the display device (steps S240 → S260).

The user designates a desired URL among the displayed URLs with a mouse. The specified URL is displayed on the home page as the last selected URL (step S270 → S280).

(Embodiment 2) Next, the URL of the homepage of the product information provider who conducts product advertising activities on the homepage
Will be described below.

FIG. 5 shows the overall system configuration. The same parts as those in the first embodiment in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The client 400 is a computer which has established a homepage of the product information provider.
The RL is registered with the search engine.

In FIG. 5, the merchandise information provider accesses the search server 300 from the client 400 via the communication network 200 and inputs the URL of the homepage of the merchandise information provider and the reading of the keyword associated therewith, or Search server 3
00 can be registered.

More generally, the merchandise information provider accesses the search server 300 via the communication network 200 from any computer (not shown) irrelevant to the URL in the company other than the client 400. ,
The URL of the homepage of the product information provider and the reading of the keyword associated therewith are input, or the keyword is input in real voice and registered in the search server 300.

Alternatively, the merchandise information provider accesses the search server 300 from an arbitrary computer (not shown) outside the company other than the client 400 via the communication network 200, and obtains the URL of the homepage of the merchandise information provider. The user inputs the reading of the keyword associated therewith, or inputs the keyword in real voice and registers it in the search server 300.

The method of registering the URL and the keyword is as follows: 1) A method of directly accessing the database of the search server 300 from the client 400 of the product information provider by FTP (File Transfer Protocol) 2) Sending the search server 300 by e-mail Method 3) A method of displaying the keyword registration homepage provided by the search server 300 on the client 400 and inputting a keyword and a URL on the display screen of the homepage 4) The client 400 or another computer sends the search server 300 to the search server 300 without using the Internet The user may adopt a suitable method such as a method of connecting and inputting a keyword and a URL.

In the present embodiment, the registration method using the homepage (3) is used.

The input keyword is a character string indicating the reading of a word, and may be any of English characters, hiragana, katakana, and the like. The search server 300 converts the input reading character string into a phoneme string and registers it in the database.

The search server 300 accepting the input of the URL of the product information provider's homepage and the keyword associated therewith newly registers a phoneme string corresponding to the URL and the keyword in the phoneme string / URL database.

The keywords registered here include at least the “company name, product name or words analogous thereto” which the product information provider has announced through mass media or the like.

In this case, steps S200 to S2 in FIG.
In the process of 10, the user inputs the desired product name or the name of the company handling the product by voice from the microphone as a keyword for search and transmits the same, thereby setting the URL of the homepage of the product information provider. It will be possible to search and retrieve.

The above-described registration of the URL and the keyword in the search engine can be performed by differentiating the registration method between paid and free. The method will be described below.

The keyword A 'having the same reading as the keyword (hereinafter, referred to as a free keyword) A registered by the product information provider (hereinafter, referred to as a free registrant) who has registered in the search server 300 for free is described later. , The data set of the phoneme string and the URL corresponding to the free keyword A is replaced with the data set of the phoneme string and the URL corresponding to the keyword A ′.

Further, the paid keyword B having the same reading as the keyword (hereinafter referred to as the paid keyword) B registered in the search server 300 by the merchandise information provider (hereinafter referred to as the paid registrant) performing the above registration for a fee. When 'is registered later, a phoneme sequence and a URL data set corresponding to the later pay keyword B' are additionally registered while a phoneme sequence and a URL data set corresponding to the pay keyword B remain.

Further, when the free registrant later inputs a free keyword C ′ having the same reading as the paid keyword C registered by the paid registrant to the search server 300, a phoneme sequence corresponding to the paid keyword C The input of the free keyword C ′ later is rejected with the data set of URL and URL remaining.

When the above-described method of registering the URL and the keyword into the search engine for free / paid in the search server 300 is realized, the phoneme string corresponding to the keyword and the U
Each of the RL data sets requires additional registration of the following three items (not shown). A) Paid service period; service start date and expected service expiration date or period (3 months, 6 months, 1 year, etc.). B) e-commerce ID: paid registrant's name, credit card number, etc. C) Contact method: an e-mail address or telephone number that informs the paid registrant that the paid service period is about to expire or has expired.

The search server 300 accepting the input of the three items (a) to (c) in addition to the URL of the homepage and the keyword associated therewith by the product information provider of the paying registrant makes the phoneme string corresponding to the keyword. , URL, paid service period, e-commerce ID, contact method
Newly register in the URL database.

The following embodiment can be carried out in addition to the above-described embodiment. 1) In the above embodiment, the search engine for performing URL search by voice is provided on the server side, but may be provided on the client side. In this case, no communication network intervenes. In addition, the above-described URL search program is installed on the client side. Also, this UR
The CPU that executes the L search program, the system memory, the HD, and the like constitute a communication address search device. 2) In addition to displaying the URL search result, the URL search result may be directly input to the browser. If the character string of the displayed URL is designated by a pointing device such as a mouse, the character string is changed according to the designation. , The specified URL
The server may be accessed from the client. 3) To access the search server, a button switch may be provided on the display screen, and the button switch may be operated with a mouse for automatic access. The button switch may be provided on a display screen of a browser, an advertisement (so-called banner) provided by the server may have a button switch function, or may be provided in e-mail software. Alternatively, an instruction may be given by a voice command to software called by the voice command. Further, a physical button may be provided in the hardware of the client. 4) In the above embodiment, the communication network is the Internet, but the intranet, the extranet,
That is, the communication network is a LAN (local area network) or WAN (wide area network)
It may be. Further, a telephone network may be used. 5) The search server does not only know the URL and accuracy,
Guide information on L may be added. If this guidance information is also displayed on the client side, it will be helpful for URL selection. In this case, the guidance information is also stored in the phoneme string / URL database. 6) In the above-described embodiment, the URL is searched as the communication address. However, as the communication address,
An IP address, FTP, e-mail address, or the like can also be used. When an e-mail address is used, the same operation can be performed by replacing the browser with e-mail software in the above description. 7) In the above-described embodiment, a common conversion method is used when converting a voice signal into a phoneme sequence in order to recognize the voice of an unspecified number of people. However, in an environment where the voice can be limited to the voice of a specific speaker, , A phoneme string may be generated by a unique conversion method and compared with a phoneme string of a registered data set. 8) The client may be a game machine, a mobile phone, a mobile terminal, and other devices that can access the Internet, other than the computer.

Other than the above-described embodiments, modifications can be made in accordance with the technical concept of the present invention. However, it should be noted that such modifications fall within the technical scope of the communication address search device or method described in the claims.

[0078]

As described above, according to the present invention, the communication address corresponding to the input voice is output only by the user inputting the keyword necessary for the search by voice. Acquisition becomes easier than before. Further, since there is no need for keyboard input unlike a conventional search engine, erroneous input such as a misspelling of a keyword to be input does not occur.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a server having a function of searching for a communication address, and it is possible to reduce the effort of a client to obtain a communication address.

By separating the data set for speech recognition from the client and placing it on the server, all the clients can obtain the latest information by updating the data set of the server.

Further, according to the present invention, the user simply inputs the desired product name or the name of the company handling the product as a search keyword by voice, and the product information provider of the product corresponding to the input voice. Since the communication address of the homepage is output, it is easier to obtain the communication address of the homepage of the product information provider than before. In this case, since the user who is the consumer speaks out the product name or the company name, a new advertising effect can be expected for the product information provider.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a system configuration of a computer according to the first and second embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the contents of a communication address search process executed on the search server side according to the first and second embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the contents of voice input processing and output processing executed on the client side according to the first and second embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

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Claims (15)

[Claims] 1. A storage means for storing a plurality of data sets each including a pair of first voice data and one or a plurality of communication addresses corresponding to the first voice data, and inputting the second voice data. And input means for detecting the first audio data on the storage means, which is similar to the second audio data input from the input means, and sets a communication address corresponding to the detected first audio data. A communication address search device comprising: a communication address search unit that obtains a search result; and an output unit that outputs a communication address obtained by the communication address search unit. 2. The communication address search device according to claim 1, wherein said communication address search device is a server connected to a communication network, and said second voice data transmitted from a client is said voice input means. And the output unit outputs a search result of the communication address to the client. 3. A search server and a client are connected to a communication network. The search server stores a plurality of sets of voice data and a data set of a communication address corresponding to the voice data. Sending data to the search server, wherein the search server detects a communication address of at least one data set having audio data similar to the transmitted audio data, and returns the detected communication address to the client. A communication address search method characterized by the following. 4. The communication address search method according to claim 3, wherein the search server detects a plurality of data sets, returns the detected plurality of communication addresses to the client, and returns the plurality of returned reply addresses. A communication address search method, wherein a predetermined communication address among communication addresses is selected on the client side. 5. A search server and a client are connected to a communication network, wherein the client includes transmission means for transmitting voice data to the search server, wherein the search server includes a plurality of sets of voice data and voice data. Storage means for storing a data set of a corresponding communication address; detecting means for detecting a communication address of at least one data set having audio data similar to audio data transmitted from the client; and the detected communication address And a notifying means for replying to the client. 6. A communication network is connected to a first client and another client of a merchandise information provider, a second client of a general user, and a search server. The search server database includes voice data of keywords. And the communication address of the first client corresponding to the voice data is stored. The second client searches for voice data by uttering a keyword input by a user who requests product information among the general users. The search server detects voice data of a keyword similar to the transmitted voice data, and transmits the communication address of the first client associated with the voice data obtained by the detection to the keyword. To the second client that sent the voice data Communication address retrieval method characterized by. 7. The communication address search method according to claim 6, wherein the keyword includes at least a company name and a product name of the product information provider. 8. The communication address search method according to claim 6, wherein the keyword data from the first client or another client of the merchandise information provider to the search server via the communication network. And a communication address search method, wherein the communication address can be registered. 9. The communication address search method according to claim 6, wherein the voice data of the keyword registered in the search server is automatically generated from a character string indicating the reading of the keyword or voice data based on the utterance of the keyword. A communication address search method characterized by being performed. 10. The communication address search method according to claim 6, wherein the first audio data and a communication address corresponding to the audio data are registered free of charge, and
When the same second voice data as the voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered, the second voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered with the first voice data and A communication address search method, wherein the communication address is registered after being replaced with a communication address corresponding to the voice data. 11. The communication address search method according to claim 6, wherein the first voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered for a fee.
When the same second voice data as the voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered for a fee, the second voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data are additionally registered. Characteristic communication address search method. 12. The communication address search method according to claim 6, wherein the first voice data and a communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered for a fee.
If the same second voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered free of charge, the registration of the second voice data and the communication address corresponding to the voice data is invalid. A communication address search method characterized by: 13. The communication address search method according to claim 10, wherein when voice data and a communication address corresponding to the voice data are registered for a fee, a pay service corresponding to the communication address. A communication address search method, wherein a period and a contact method such as a mail address or a telephone number can be further registered. 14. The communication address search method according to claim 13, wherein the expiration or expiration of the pay service period is automatically detected, and the expiration of the e-mail address or the telephone number is automatically detected. A communication address search method characterized by automatically notifying information. 15. The communication address search method according to claim 13, wherein an item serving as an electronic commerce means ID such as a credit card number or a name is registered from the first client or another client of the product information provider. And a settlement method for a fixed amount or an amount according to the pay service period via the communication network.