Abstract: A voice-activated remote control unit which is adapted for use with one or more electrical apparatuses, such as a TV set, a DVD player, a stereo system, an air conditioner, for the purpose of allowing the user to remotely turn on/off and control the operations of these electrical apparatuses through voice-activation. The voice-activated remote control unit comprises voice input means which can pick up the user/s natural voice command and converting it into an digital voice signal. A command code database is used for storing a predefined set of remote-control command codes and corresponding voice commands; and a voice recognition unit is used to perform a voice recognition algorithm on the digital voice signal to thereby recognize the user's voice command, and which is further capable of retrieving the corresponding remote-control command code from the command code database.

Abstract: A wireless-keyboard based voice-control module is proposed, which is adapted for installation in a wireless keyboard for remote control of one or more electrical apparatuses, such as a personal computer (PC), a TV-based Internet-access box, a TV set, a DVD player, a stereo unit, an air conditioner, and so on, for the purpose of allowing the user to remotely turn on/off and control the operations of these electrical apparatuses through voice-activation by way of the wireless keyboard. The proposed voice-control module comprises voice input means which can pick up the user's natural voice command and converting it into digital voice signal. A remote-control code database is used for storing a predefined set of remote-control codes and corresponding voice commands; and a voice-recognition unit is used to perform a voice recognition algorithm to recognize the user's voice command, and which can further retrieve the corresponding remote-control code from the remote-control code database.

Abstract: A voice-activated control device is proposed for use with an intelligent instrument, such as an intelligent oscilloscope, of the type having an external communication port, such as IEEE-488 or RS-232 compliant communication port, to allow a user to control the operations of the intelligent instrument through voice activation. The proposed voice-activated control device can be either implemented as an externally-coupled module box which can be externally coupled between an intelligent instrument and a computer system, or as a soft-ware program loaded in a computer system having a compliant communication interface and a digital voice processing module.

Abstract: A voice-activated remote control unit which is adapted for use with one or more electrical apparatuses, such as a TV set, a DVD player, a stereo system, an air conditioner, for the purpose of allowing the user to remotely turn on/off and control the operations of these electrical apparatuses through voice-activation. The voice-activated remote control unit comprises voice input means which can pick up the user/s natural voice command and converting it into an digital voice signal. A command code database is used for storing a predefined set of remote-control command codes and corresponding voice commands; and a voice recognition unit is used to perform a voice recognition algorithm on the digital voice signal to thereby recognize the user's voice command, and which is further capable of retrieving the corresponding remote-control command code from the command code data-base.