Abstract: A voice activated wireless locator service provides an interactive voice response system whereby a user is walked through a sequence of voice prompts to select a desired destination. Using either geo-coded information provided during the voice call or speech recognition of a shortcut phrase associated in a database with a street address, and using a locator service database, the system can provide spoken instructions using a text to speech engine, providing the name, location, and driving directions to one or more destinations matching the criteria provided by the user. Because the system uses speech recognition technology, it is particularly well suited for wireless access devices, such as cellular telephones, which are often used when a user is engaged in other activities, such as driving.

Abstract: Wireless access to a computer network, such as the Internet and its associated World Wide Web resources, is greatly simplified using a voice driven system in which specific Web pages are identified using spoken shortcut phrases, which phrases are converted into text commands and compared to a database of stored bookmarks. When a matching bookmark is located, it is sent to a Web server which will serve up the resource to the wireless access device, such as a cellular telephone or personal digital assistant. Preferably, the wireless access device can maintain a voice channel to a speech server for providing spoken shortcuts, while at the same time maintaining a data channel to the Web server for receiving the requested Web pages. In other embodiments, the spoken command is provided over a voice connection, which connection is terminated in order to allow the requested page to be served over a data connection.

Abstract: A voice activated wireless locator service provides an interactive voice response system whereby a user is walked through a sequence of voice prompts to select a desired destination. Using either geo-coded information provided during the voice call or speech recognition of a shortcut phrase associated in a database with a street address, and using a locator service database, the system can provide spoken instructions using a text to speech engine, providing the name, location, and driving directions to one or more destinations matching the criteria provided by the user. Because the system uses speech recognition technology, it is particularly well suited for wireless access devices, such as cellular telephones, which are often used when a user is engaged in other activities, such as driving.