TWI638351B - Voice transmission device and method for executing voice assistant program thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A voice transmission device and method of executing the voice assistant program. The voice transmission device is used to establish a connection with an electronic device having a first voice assistant program and a second voice assistant program. The detection module of the voice transmission device is configured to detect whether the second voice assistant of the electronic device is activated to generate the first flag or the second flag. The memory module is configured to store the first flag or the second flag. When the memory module stores the first flag, the control relationship generates a first control signal by the operation of the user, so that the electronic device executes the first voice assistant program. When the memory module stores the second flag, the control relationship generates a second control signal by the operation of the user, so that the electronic device executes the second voice assistant program.

Description

Voice transmission device and method for executing the same

The present invention relates to a voice transmission device and a method thereof for performing a voice assistant program, and more particularly to a voice transmission device that can be conveniently operated by a user and a method of executing the voice assistant program.

With the advancement of technology, many voice assistant programs have been developed, such as Apple's Siri, Google's Google Now, Microsoft's Cortsna or Amazon's Alexa. In the operating system of each company, its voice assistant program will be built in. For example, iOS system will have built-in Siri, and Android system will have built-in Google Now. Additional installations are required to use other voice assistants. Of course However, in the prior art, the built-in voice assistant is the preferred program, and it is inconvenient to start other voice assistants. Especially for users who use headsets and are inconvenient to operate, there is no way to execute the desired voice assistant.

Therefore, it is necessary to invent a new voice transmission device and a method of executing the voice assistant program to solve the lack of the prior art.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a voice transmission device having an effect that can be easily operated by a user.

Another main object of the present invention is to provide an execution voice assistant for the above voice transmission device.

To achieve the above objects, the voice transmission device of the present invention is used to establish a connection with an electronic device. The electronic device has at least a first voice assistant program and a second voice assistant program. The voice transmission device includes a microphone, a detection module, a memory module and a control switch. The microphone is used to receive voice signals. The detection module is configured to detect whether the second voice assistant of the electronic device is activated; wherein when the second voice assistant is detected to be not activated, the first flag is generated; when the second voice assistant is detected, A second flag is generated. The memory module is an electrical connection detecting module for storing the first flag or the second flag. Controlling the electrical connection and reading the memory module for the user to operate, wherein when the memory module stores the first flag, the control relationship generates a first control signal by the operation of the user, so that the electronic device performs The first voice assistant program recognizes the voice signal; when the memory module stores the second flag, the control relationship generates a second control signal by the operation of the user, so that the electronic device executes the second voice assistant program to recognize the voice signal.

The method for executing the voice assistant program of the present invention includes the steps of: detecting whether the second voice assistant of the electronic device is activated; generating a first flag when detecting that the second voice assistant is not activated; and detecting the second voice when detecting When the assistant starts, generating a second flag; storing the first flag or the second flag; and when storing the first flag, generating a first control signal by the operation of the user, causing the electronic device to execute the first voice assistant And the second control signal is generated by the operation of the user when the second flag is stored, so that the electronic device executes the second voice assistant program.

1‧‧‧Voice transmission device

2‧‧‧Electronic devices

2a‧‧‧First Voice Assistant

2b‧‧‧second voice assistant

10‧‧‧Microphone

20‧‧‧ Speakers

30‧‧‧Detection module

40‧‧‧Memory Module

50‧‧‧Control switch

60‧‧‧Program Master Module

1 is a schematic structural diagram of an audio transmission device and an electronic device connected to the present invention.

2 is a flow chart showing the steps of the method of the present invention for executing a voice assistant.

In order to enable the reviewing committee to better understand the technical contents of the present invention, the preferred embodiments are described below.

1 is a schematic structural diagram of a voice transmission device and an electronic device connected to the present invention.

The voice transmission device 1 of the present invention is used to establish a connection with the electronic device 2. In an embodiment of the present invention, the voice transmission device 1 and the electronic device 2 are connected by a Bluetooth communication protocol, but the voice transmission device 1 and the electronic device 2 may also be connected by other wireless or wired methods. The invention is not limited to this. The electronic device 2 can be a smart phone, a tablet computer or a notebook computer, and the electronic device 2 has at least a first voice assistant program 2a and a second voice assistant program 2b. The first voice assistant program 2a can be a program built into the operating system. For example, Apple's Siri or Google's Google Now, etc., the second voice assistant 2b is an additional program, such as Amazon's Alexa, but the invention is not limited to the voice assistants listed above.

The voice transmission device 1 may be a device having both the microphone 10 and the speaker device 20, for example, a headset, and thus the speaker device 20 may be an earphone, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The microphone 10 is used to receive the voice signal of the user, and the speaker device 20 emits a voice signal generated by the voice assistant program. In addition, the voice transmission device 1 further includes a detection module 30, a memory module 40, and a control switch 50. The detecting module 30 is configured to detect whether the voice assistant of the electronic device 2 is activated. For example, when the voice transmission device 1 is connected to the electronic device 2, the detection module 30 actively detects whether the first voice assistant program 2a and the second voice assistant program 2b are activated. After the electronic device 2 is connected to the voice transmission device 1, the electronic device 2 transmits the signal of whether the first voice assistant program 2a and the second voice assistant program 2b are activated to the detection module 30. The invention does not limit the detection module 30 to actively or passively know the activation state of the first voice assistant program 2a and the second voice assistant program 2b. The first voice assistant program 2a and the second voice assistant program 2b can be activated by the user and enter the standby state, or set as the resident program after the electronic device 2 is powered on, but the invention is not limited thereto.

Therefore, when the detecting module 30 detects that the second voice assistant program 2b is not activated, or the detecting module 30 detects that the electronic device only starts the first voice assistant program 2a, the detecting module 30 generates A first flag (Flag). And when the detection module 30 detects When the second voice assistant program 2b has been activated, the detection module 30 generates a second flag.

The memory module 40 is electrically connected to the detecting module 30 for storing the first flag or the second flag. When the detection module 30 generates the first flag or the second flag, it is stored in the memory module 40. The first flag and the second flag in the memory module 40 do not exist at the same time, that is, the memory module 40 replaces the newly received flag with the old flag.

The control switch 50 is electrically connected and reads the memory module 40, and may have a physical button for the user to operate. When the user operates, the control switch 50 determines the generated control signal according to the first flag or the second flag stored in the memory module 40. When the memory module 40 stores the first flag, the second voice assistant program 2b is not activated, and only the first voice assistant program 2a is activated, so the control switch 50 generates a first by the operation of the user. The control signal causes the electronic device 2 to execute the first voice assistant program 2a to recognize the voice signal obtained from the microphone 10. When the memory module 40 stores the second flag, the second voice assistant program 2b is activated. Therefore, the control switch 50 generates a second control signal by the operation of the user, so that the electronic device 2 directly executes. The second voice assistant 2b to identify the voice signal from the microphone 10. At this time, the electronic device 2 does not execute the first voice assistant program 2a.

In addition, in an embodiment of the present invention, when the detecting module 30 detects that the electronic device 2 does not respond to the instruction of executing the second voice assistant program 2b within a set time, or after the user operates multiple times, When the electronic device 2 is not properly executed, the detecting module 30 generates the first flag to store the memory module 40 instead of the stored second flag. In this way, the detection module 30 can be directly generated when an error occurs in the electronic device 2 and the second voice assistant program 2b cannot be started normally, or when the electronic device 2 does not respond to the second voice assistant program 2b. The first flag is used to store the memory module 40, thereby forcibly switching the execution of the first voice assistant program 2a, avoiding the user being empty.

On the other hand, in another embodiment of the present invention, the electronic device 2 may also have a plurality of additionally installed second voice assistant programs 2b, so that the electronic device 2 can simultaneously display a plurality of additionally installed second voice assistant programs 2b. For the user to choose to start. The voice transmission device 1 may further include a program manager module 60 for managing the plurality of second voice assistant programs 2b. When one of the second voice assistant programs 2b is activated, the detection module 30 also generates a second flag, and the program manager module 60 records the activated voice in the second voice assistant program 2b at this time. The assistant program, that is, which second voice assistant program 2b is started. Therefore, when the control switch 50 generates the second control signal by the operation of the user, the program master module 60 causes the electronic device 2 to execute the activated voice assistant program to recognize the voice signal.

It should be noted that each module of the voice transmission device 1 may be configured by a hardware device, a software program combined with a hardware device, a firmware combined with a hardware device, etc., but the present invention is not limited to the above manner. . In addition, the present embodiment is merely illustrative of preferred embodiments of the present invention, and in order to avoid redundancy, all possible combinations of variations are not described in detail. However, those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various modules or components described above are not necessarily required. In order to implement the invention, other well-known modules or elements of more detail may also be included. Each module or component may be omitted or modified as needed, and no other modules or components may exist between any two modules.

Next, please refer to FIG. 2, which is a flow chart of the steps of the method for executing the voice assistant program of the present invention. It should be noted that the following describes the method for executing the voice assistant program of the present invention by taking the voice transmission device 1 as an example. However, the method for executing the voice assistant program of the present invention does not use the voice transmission device of the same structure as described above. 1 is limited.

First, step S201 is performed: detecting whether the second voice assistant of the electronic device is activated.

First, the detecting module 30 actively or passively knows the startup state of the second voice assistant program 2b, or simultaneously knows the state of the first voice assistant program 2a and the second voice assistant program 2b. In an embodiment of the present invention, the first voice assistant program 2a can be a program built in the operating system, and the second voice assistant program 2b can be additionally installed, so the first voice assistant program 2a is already a resident program. The detecting module 30 only detects the startup state of the second voice assistant program 2b.

Then, when the detecting module 30 detects that the second voice assistant program 2b is not activated, the process proceeds to step S202: generating a first flag.

At this time, when the detecting module 30 detects that the second voice assistant program 2b is not activated, a first flag is generated.

Step S203 is further performed: storing the first flag.

At this time, the memory module 40 is used to store the first flag.

When the memory module 40 stores the first flag, step S204 is performed: a first control signal is generated by the operation of the user, so that the electronic device executes the first voice assistant program.

When the memory module 40 stores the first flag, only the first voice assistant program 2a is activated, so the control switch 50 generates a first control signal by the operation of the user, so that the electronic device 2 executes the first A voice assistant 2a is used to recognize the voice signal from the microphone 10.

When the second voice assistant program 2b is started in step 201, the process proceeds to S205: a second flag is generated.

When the detecting module 30 detects that the second voice assistant program 2b has been activated, the detecting module 30 generates a second flag.

Then step S206 is executed: storing the second flag.

At this time, the memory module 40 is used to store the second flag.

When the memory module 40 stores the second flag, step S207 is further performed: generating a second control signal by the operation of the user, so that the electronic device executes the second voice assistant program.

When the memory module 40 stores the second flag, the second voice assistant program 2b is activated. Therefore, the control switch 50 generates a second control signal by the operation of the user, so that the electronic device 2 directly executes the second control signal. The second voice assistant program 2b recognizes the voice signal from the microphone 10.

If the electronic device 2 has a plurality of additionally installed second voice assistant programs 2b, the user can select the second voice assistant program 2b to be activated. The program manager module 60 will record the activated voice assistant program in the second voice assistant program 2b. When the control switch 50 generates the second control signal by the operation of the user, the program master module 60 causes the electronic device 2 to execute the activated voice assistant to recognize the voice signal.

In addition, step 208 may be further performed: when detecting that the electronic device does not correctly execute the instruction of the second voice assistant program, the first flag is generated to be stored in the memory module.

When the detecting module 30 detects that the electronic device 2 has not responded to the instruction of executing the second voice assistant program 2b within a set time, or after the user operates multiple times, the electronic device 2 does not normally execute the second voice assistant. In the program 2b, the first flag is generated to store the memory module 40 to replace the stored second flag, thereby forcibly switching the execution of the first voice assistant 2a, avoiding the user being empty.

It should be noted that the method for executing the voice assistant program of the present invention is not limited to the above-described sequence of steps, and the order of steps described above may be changed as long as the object of the present invention can be achieved.

In this way, the user can conveniently use the desired voice assistant by simply operating the control switch 50 on the voice transmission device 1 without going through the electronic device 2.

It is to be noted that the above-described embodiments are merely illustrative of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and all possible combinations of variations are not described in detail to avoid redundancy. However, those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various modules or components described above are not necessarily required. In order to implement the invention, other well-known modules or elements of more detail may also be included. Each module or component may be omitted or modified as needed, and no other modules or components may exist between any two modules. As long as they do not deviate from the basic structure of the present invention, they should be the scope of rights claimed in this patent, and the scope of patent application shall prevail.

Claims (12)

A voice transmission device is configured to establish a connection with an electronic device, the electronic device having at least a first voice assistant program and a second voice assistant program, the voice transmission device comprising: a microphone for receiving a voice signal a detection module for detecting whether the second voice assistant of the electronic device is activated; wherein when detecting that the second voice assistant is not activated, generating a first flag; When the second voice assistant program is started, a second flag is generated; a memory module is electrically connected to the detecting module for storing the first flag or the second flag; and a control switch Electrically connecting and reading the memory module for operation by a user, wherein when the memory module stores the first flag, the control switch is operated by the user, according to the first flag Generating a first control signal to cause the electronic device to execute the first voice assistant program to recognize the voice signal; when the memory module stores the second flag, the control switch is provided to the user for operation The first Flag generating a second control signal, so that the second electronic device to perform the speech to recognize the speech assistant program signal. The voice transmission device of claim 1, wherein the first flag is generated when the electronic device is detected to activate only the first voice assistant. The voice transmission device of claim 1, wherein the second module is not executed when the detecting module determines that the electronic device is in a set time or after the user operates a plurality of times. In the program, the first flag is generated for storage in the memory module. The voice transmission device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device further comprises a plurality of second voice assistant programs; the voice transmission device further comprising a program master module for recording the plurality of second voice assistant programs One of the voice assistants has been activated. When the second control signal is generated by the operation of the user, the program master module causes the electronic device to execute the activated voice assistant. The voice transmission device of claim 1, wherein the voice transmission device comprises a speaker device. The voice transmission device of claim 5, wherein the speaker device is an earphone. The voice transmission device of claim 1, wherein the voice transmission device and the electronic device are connected by a Bluetooth communication protocol. A method for executing a voice assistant program for a voice transmission device to control an electronic device, the electronic device having at least a first voice assistant program and a second voice assistant program; the method comprising the steps of: Detecting whether the second voice assistant of the electronic device is activated; generating a first flag when detecting that the second voice assistant is not activated; generating a first when detecting that the second voice assistant is activated a second flag; storing the first flag or the second flag; when storing the first flag, after a user operation, reading the first flag to generate a first control signal And causing the electronic device to execute the first voice assistant program; and when storing the second flag, after the user operates, according to reading the second flag to generate a second control signal, The electronic device executes the second voice assistant. The method for executing a voice assistant program according to claim 8, further comprising the step of generating the first flag when detecting that the electronic device only starts the first voice assistant program. The method for executing the voice assistant program according to claim 8 of the patent application, further comprising: when detecting that the electronic device has not executed the second voice assistant program within a set time or after the user repeatedly operates, The step of generating the first flag for storage in the memory module. The method of executing a voice assistant program according to claim 8, wherein the electronic device comprises a plurality of second voice assistant programs, the method further comprising recording one of the plurality of second voice assistant programs to start the voice assistant program When the second control signal is generated by the operation of the user, the electronic device performs the step of starting the voice assistant program. The method for executing a voice assistant program as described in claim 8 of the patent application further includes the step of connecting by a Bluetooth communication protocol.