Apparatus for the processing of sales and for outputting...

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2008-04-17

2011-12-13

Smits, Talivaldis Ivars (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Application

C704S251000, C704S270000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08078471

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for processing sales of articles, such as a store scale, has a microphone which listens to a conversation between a customer and a salesperson and converts words into an electrical speech signal, which signal is converted to a speech recognition result by a speech recognition device. A comparator compares the speech recognition result with keywords stored in a memory, with at least some of the stored keywords being product names which define a group of keywords. A control device, on the detection of a keyword belonging to the group and/or of a permitted combination of keywords which includes a keyword belonging to the group, outputs a piece of information associated with the detected keyword or combination of keywords and available via a data source, or outputs an offer for the output of the information, such as with a section menu, by an output device of the apparatus.

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