Arrangement for creating and using a phonetic-alphabet representation of a name of a party to a call
A first party creates and edits a phonetic-alphabet representation of its name. The phonetic representation is conveyed to a second party as “caller-identification” information by messages that set up a call between the parties. The phonetic representation of the name is displayed to the second party, converted to speech, and/or converted to an alphabet of a language of the second party and then displayed to the second party.
1. A method comprising:
receiving text comprising information expressed in a non-phonetic-alphabet form from a first user;
converting by a computer the non-phonetic-alphabet form into a phonetic-alphabet form;
displaying the information in the phonetic-alphabet form;
converting by the computer the information from the phonetic-alphabet form into speech;
presenting an interface for editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information to the first user;
in response to the first user editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information, displaying the information in the edited phonetic-alphabet form;
further in response to the first user editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information, converting by the computer the information from the edited phonetic-alphabet form into speech;
setting up a call by the computer between the first user and a second party; and
conveying by the computer the edited phonetic-alphabet form of the information to the second party during call set-up.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising: repeating at least once the steps of displaying the information in the edited phonetic-alphabet form and converting by the computer the information from the edited phonetic-alphabet form into speech; and storing a last-edited said edited phonetic-alphabet form of the information.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information conveyed comprises a name of the first user, and wherein conveying comprises converting by the computer the name in the phonetic-alphabet form into speech to the second party.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the text comprises a name of the first user.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein: the text comprises a name of the first user, and the method further comprises repeating at least once the steps of displaying the information in the edited phonetic-alphabet form and converting by the computer the information from the edited phonetic-alphabet form into speech, and using an edited said phonetic-alphabet form of the information in setting up a call between the user and another party.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: storing said edited phonetic-alphabet form of the information.
7. A method comprising:
a processor receiving text comprising information expressed in a non-phonetic-alphabet form;
the processor converting the non-phonetic-alphabet form into a phonetic-alphabet form;
the processor displaying the information in the phonetic-alphabet form;
the processor converting the information from the phonetic-alphabet form into speech;
the processor presenting an interface for editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information;
in response to a user editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information, displaying the information in the edited phonetic-alphabet form; and
further in response to the user editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information, the processor converting the information from the edited phonetic-alphabet form into speech;
the processor storing the information expressed in a phonetic-alphabet form;
the processor setting up a call between a first party and a second party; and
the processor conveying the information expressed in the phonetic-alphabet form from the first party to the second party during call set-up.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the information comprises a name of the first party.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein: conveying comprises presenting the name to the second party.
10. The method of claim 9 wherein: presenting comprises displaying the name in the phonetic-alphabet form to the second party.
11. The method of claim 9 wherein: presenting comprises converting by computer the name in the phonetic-alphabet form into speech to the second party.
12. The method of claim 9 wherein: presenting comprises converting the information from the phonetic-alphabet form into an alphabet of a language of the second party; and displaying the name in the alphabet of the language of the second party to the second party.
13. The method of claim 7 wherein: setting up a call comprises setting up a call via signaling messages of a first communications protocol; and conveying comprises conveying the information expressed in the phonetic-alphabet form via a signaling message of the first communications protocol.
14. The method of claim 13 wherein: the communications protocol comprises a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and the information expressed in the phonetic-alphabet form is conveyed in at least one of a “From”, “Contact” and a “P-Asserted-Identify” header field of a SIP message.
15. The method of claim 13 wherein: the communications protocol comprises QSIG, and the information expressed in the phonetic-alphabet form is conveyed in at least one of a “Name2” or a manufacturer specification interface (MSI) field of a QSIG message.
16. A computer-readable medium device containing instructions which, when executed by the computer, perform the method of one of claims 1 - 15 .
17. An apparatus comprising:
a memory;
a processor in communication with the memory;
an interface in communication with the processor, the interface operable to:
receive text comprising information expressed in a non-phonetic-alphabet form;
receive edits to a phonetic-alphabet form of the information;
a display operable to:
display the phonetic-alphabet form of the information;
responsive to the phonetic-alphabet form being edited with the interface, display said edited phonetic-alphabet form of the information;
a text-to-speech engine executed by the processor, the text-to-speech engine operable to:
convert the information expressed in the non-phonetic-alphabet form into the phonetic-alphabet form;
convert the information from the phonetic-alphabet form into speech;
responsive to the phonetic-alphabet form being edited with the interface, convert the information from the edited phonetic-alphabet form into speech;
set up a call between a first party and a second party; and
transmit the information expressed in the phonetic-alphabet form to the second party during call set-up.
18. The apparatus of claim 17 further comprising: storage operable to store the edited phonetic-alphabet form of the information.
19. The apparatus of claim 17 wherein: the information comprises a name of a party to a call.
20. An apparatus comprising:
means for receiving text comprising information expressed in a non-phonetic-alphabet form;
means for converting by a computer the non-phonetic-alphabet form into a phonetic-alphabet form;
means for displaying the information in the phonetic-alphabet form;
means for converting by the computer the information from the phonetic-alphabet form into speech;
means for presenting an interface for editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information;
in response to a user editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information, means for displaying the information in the edited phonetic-alphabet form;
further in response to the user editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information, means for converting by the computer the information from the edited phonetic-alphabet form into speech;
means for storing information expressed in a phonetic-alphabet form;
means for setting up a call between a first party and a second party; and
means for transmitting the stored information expressed in the phonetic-alphabet form to the second party during call set-up.
21. The apparatus of claim 20 wherein: the information comprises a name of the first party.
22. An apparatus comprising:
means for receiving text comprising information expressed in a non-phonetic-alphabet form;
means for converting by a computer the non-phonetic-alphabet form into a phonetic-alphabet form;
means for displaying the information in the phonetic-alphabet form;
means for converting by the computer the information from the phonetic-alphabet form into speech;
means for presenting an interface for editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information;
in response to a user editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information, means for displaying the information in the edited phonetic-alphabet form;
further in response to the user editing the phonetic-alphabet form of the information, means for converting by the computer the information from the edited phonetic-alphabet form into speech;
means for setting up a call between a first party and a second party;
means for receiving information expressed in a phonetic-alphabet form from the first party; and
means for presenting the information expressed in the phonetic-alphabet form to the second party.
23. The apparatus of claim 22 wherein: the information comprises a name of the first party.
24. The apparatus of claim 22 wherein: the means for presenting comprises a display screen for displaying the phonetic-alphabet form of the information to the second party.
25. The apparatus of claim 22 wherein: the means for presenting comprises a text-to-speech conversion engine for converting the information from the phonetic-alphabet form into speech.
26. The apparatus of claim 22 wherein: the means for presenting comprises means for converting the information from the phonetic-alphabet form into a non-phonetic-alphabet of a language of the second party, and a display screen for displaying the non-phonetic-alphabet form of the information to the second party.