JPH0654048A - Multi-function telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Object] The present invention relates to a multifunction telephone in which data by a caller's operation is recorded in a voice recording area by voice recording, and information recorded by a caller side is recorded by voice. It is an object of the present invention to provide a multi-function telephone capable of recording in a recording area. [Structure] In a telephone having an answering machine recording function, a destination number, a call duration, etc., which are operated by a caller, are voice-synthesized and recorded in an answering machine recording section by voice.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multi-function telephone which records data operated by a caller in a voice recording / recording area by voice.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, telephones with an absence recording function have become widespread. The functions of this kind of telephone have been diversified, and a telephone charge rate, a call time, and the like are displayed on a display unit attached to the telephone or are output to a printer.

[0003]

In the current absence recording telephone, although the above-mentioned information is generated by voice synthesis, only the contents of each time are uttered, and the totalized or re-listed later. I can't. In addition, adding an interface such as a printer is costly.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a multi-function telephone capable of recording information set by a calling party by voice in an absence recording recording area. I am trying.

[0005]

According to the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems, a telephone having an answering / recording function synthesizes a destination number, a call duration, etc., by a caller's operation, and voices the answering / recording section. The feature is that it was recorded in.

[0006]

[Operation] The operation contents set by the calling party are recorded in voice recording in the absence recording unit. With such a configuration, the operation contents set later can be repeatedly heard, which is convenient when the contents are aggregated later.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a polarity matching circuit connected to a line. As the polarity matching circuit 1, for example, a diode bridge is used so that it can operate regardless of the connection polarity of the line. Reference numeral 2 is a line control unit for controlling the line, and 3 is a communication circuit.

Reference numeral 4 is a key input section including a ten-key pad or a function key. Reference numeral 5 is a voice uttering device for synthesizing and uttering a voice, 6 is a time counting unit for counting a call time, and 7 is a telephone number recognizing unit for recording a destination telephone number input by the caller from the key input unit 4. Reference numeral 8 is a recording device for recording voice. As the recording device 8, for example, a cassette recorder is used. 9 is the voice recording device 8
An amplifier 10 that amplifies the output of 10 is a speaker driven by the amplifier 9. Reference numeral 20 is a control unit that controls the overall operation. A CPU, for example, is used as the control unit 20. The operation of the circuit thus configured will be described below. (Absent recording operation) When an incoming call is received from the line, the incoming signal is notified to the control unit 20 via the line control unit 2 and the call circuit 3. When the absence recording setting is made, the control unit 20 activates the voice utterance device 5 and issues a message, for example, "I am out of office right now. Please speak your message after a beep." Notify the person through the line. When the caller responds to this message, the content of the responded voice is recorded by the recording device 8 via the control unit 20.
Recorded in.

The user can later hear the recorded content from the speaker 10. That is, the key input unit 4
From the speaker 10 so that the recorded content is recorded. Upon receiving this command, the control unit 20 reads out the content of the recording device 8, amplifies the content with the amplifier 9, and then causes the speaker 10 to utter the recorded content. Since the operation at the time of incoming call is not directly related to the present invention, the detailed description is omitted. (Operation of Caller Side Operation Content) When the caller goes off-hook on the telephone, the control unit 20 detects the off-hook and activates the time counting unit 6. The time counting unit 6 starts counting the call time. Next, when a destination telephone number is entered from the key input unit 4, the telephone number is input to the control unit 20.
It is stored in the telephone number recognition unit 7 via.

The calling party talks with the other party. When the call ends, the control unit 20 activates the time counting unit 6 to obtain the time required for the call. Next, this time is converted into a voice by activating the voice utterance device 5 and recorded in the recording device 8. Next, the control unit 20 activates the telephone number recognition unit 7 and reads the stored telephone number of the other party. Next, the read telephone number is activated by the voice uttering device 5 to convert it into voice, and the voice is recorded in the recording device 8. In this way, the information regarding the operation set by the caller is recorded in the recording device 8 by voice.

After the information about a plurality of callers is recorded in the recording device 8, the user can use the recording device 8 if necessary.
The contents recorded in can be read. In other words, when a read command of the recorded contents is given from the key input unit 4, the control unit 20 rewinds the recording device 8 to the initial state and utters the recorded contents by voice from the initial state. The user can listen to the contents, re-listen to the call time, the other party's number, etc., and total the numbers.

Since the recording device 8 is also used as a voice recording function, the contents of the voice recording and the operation content data set by the caller may be mixed and heard during reproduction, which may cause confusion. In order to eliminate such a problem, the storage area of the recording device should be divided into an answer recording recording area and an operation content recording area set by the caller, and each content should be recorded in each area. Can be Alternatively, two recording devices 8 may be provided, one for recording the absence recording and one for recording the operation content set by the caller.

In the above description, the counting start time of the time counting section 6 is taken when the telephone is off-hook.
However, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is also possible to start counting after receiving a response when a path is set with the destination. In this case, more accurate call time counting is possible. It is also possible to record billing information by multiplying this count time by a certain coefficient.

[0014]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained. Easy call management. Especially when there are many cordless handsets, such as cordless absence recording, by recording the cordless handset number and the like, it is possible to know from which device to where and how long the call was made. Conventional micro-cassette tape records response messages, messages, call memo messages, etc.,
In many cases, the frequency of use of these is generally extremely low, and there is no problem even if they are used for recording the operation content set by the caller according to the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a multi-function telephone capable of recording information set by the calling party by voice in the absence recording recording area.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 polarity matching circuit 2 line control unit 3 call circuit 4 key input unit 5 voice uttering device 6 time counting unit 7 telephone number recognition unit 8 recording device 9 amplifier 10 speaker 20 control unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A multi-function telephone having a voice recording function, wherein a destination number, a call duration, etc., which are operated by a caller, are voice-synthesized and recorded by voice in a voice recording section. . 2. The recording area of the absence recording function section is divided into an absence recording recording area and an area for recording the operation content set by the caller. Function phone.