AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND RESEARCH OF NOVEL WORDS OR PHRASES BY A MOBILE TERMINAL

摘要

A wireless communication system (14) mobile terminal (100) monitors its acoustic environment. Speech recognition capability in the mobile terminal (100) transcribes monitored speech, and determines if it is novel, such as by comparison to a database of known words and phrases. Terms from the determined novel speech are submitted to one or more information resources (30, 31, 32), such as search engine (32), dictionary (30), encyclopedia (30), or new word/phrase server (31) web sites. The highest-ranked returned links may be followed and the resulting pages downloaded to the mobile terminal (100) over a low bandwidth channel for review by a user. If a user does not access the downloaded information within a predetermined time period, it is deleted.