Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for threshold activation of an audio teleconference. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for threshold activation of an audio teleconference is provided. The method includes receiving calls into a conference bridge for an audio conference and determining whether or not a threshold number of calls from corresponding callers have been received for the audio conference. The method also includes initiating the audio conference responsive to a threshold number of callers having called into the audio conference, but prohibiting initiation of the audio conference until the threshold number of callers have called into the audio conference.

An information processing apparatus is provided for communicating with another information processing apparatus in a different site by using at least one of a plurality of communication platforms. The information processing apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a transmission image that has been transmitted from the another information processing apparatus in the different site; a displaying unit configured to display on a display device the transmission image that has been received by the receiving unit; and a reading unit configured to read an image to be displayed from an image storing unit configured to store the image to be displayed. For at least a certain period while the one of the communication platform is being switched to another one, the displaying unit displays, in place of the transmission image, the image to be displayed that has been read by the reading unit.

Integration of VoIP phone services with Intelligent Cloud Voice Recognition for emergency services overcomes limitations of conventional residential telephone technology to inexpensively provide more useful and advanced residential telephone services. For example, in an embodiment, a communication method may comprise establishing a communications session between either a user device and a telephone system or between a user device and voice recognition system, if the communications session is between a user device and a telephone system, extending the communications session to include a voice recognition system, if the communications session is between a user device and a voice recognition system, extending the communications session to include a telephone system, providing voice or speech information to the voice recognition system from the user device, and performing at least one function with the voice recognition system based on the provided voice or speech information.

Integration of VoIP phone services with Intelligent Cloud Voice Recognition for emergency services overcomes limitations of conventional residential telephone technology to inexpensively provide more useful and advanced residential telephone services. For example, in an embodiment, a communication method may comprise establishing a communications session between either a user device and a telephone system or between a user device and voice recognition system, if the communications session is between a user device and a telephone system, extending the communications session to include a voice recognition system, if the communications session is between a user device and a voice recognition system, extending the communications session to include a telephone system, providing voice or speech information to the voice recognition system from the user device, and performing at least one function with the voice recognition system based on the provided voice or speech information.

An information processing system including a video device for displaying a video and a wireless terminal for communicating with the video device and communicating with other apparatuses via a network, wherein the video device transmits video information captured by a camera and sound information collected by a microphone when reception from the wireless terminal of information pertaining to a video to be displayed is detected, and outputs the received sound information using a speaker. The wireless terminal transmits information pertaining to the video to be displayed to the video device, the other apparatuses receive the captured video information and collected sound information via the network, and transmit information pertaining to the video to be displayed and information pertaining to the sound to be outputted.

A conference device includes a physical control button having multiple underlying pressure zones; a configuration unit, adapted to visualize a number of active functions on and/or around the control button based on a chosen usage application, wherein the number is at most equal to the number of the underlying pressure zones; a control unit adapted to control one or multiple components on the conference device. The pressing of the control button at the position of one of the pressure zones results in a control which depends on the chosen usage application.

A communication system includes a group calling controller configured to perform first processing of broadcasting utterance voice data received from one of mobile communication terminals to other mobile communication terminals and second processing of chronologically accumulating the result of utterance voice recognition from voice recognition processing on the received utterance voice data as a communication history and allowing users to see the communication history in synchronization, and an individual calling controller configured to transmit utterance voice data only to a specified user during group calling. A communication controller including the controllers is configured to identify a user participating in an individual calling mode that utterance voice data being transmitted only to the specified user during the broadcast of the first processing and to perform, after end of the individual calling mode, processing for notifying the identified user that the broadcast was performed during the individual calling mode.

A communication system includes a group calling controller configured to perform first processing of broadcasting utterance voice data received from one of mobile communication terminals to other mobile communication terminals and second processing of chronologically accumulating the result of utterance voice recognition from voice recognition processing on the received utterance voice data as a communication history and allowing users to see the communication history in synchronization, and an individual calling controller configured to transmit utterance voice data only to a specified user during group calling. A communication controller including the controllers is configured to identify a user participating in an individual calling mode that utterance voice data being transmitted only to the specified user during the broadcast of the first processing and to perform, after end of the individual calling mode, processing for notifying the identified user that the broadcast was performed during the individual calling mode.

A communication system is configured to broadcast utterance voice data received from one of mobile communication terminals to other mobile communication terminals, to control text delivery such that a result of utterance voice recognition from voice recognition processing on the received utterance voice data is displayed on the mobile communication terminals in synchronization, and to use the result of utterance voice recognition to perform communication evaluation. The communication evaluation includes a first evaluation including evaluating a dialogue between users based on a group dialogue index to produce group communication evaluation information, a second evaluation including evaluating utterances constituting the dialogue between the users based on a personal utterance index to produce personal utterance evaluation information, and a third evaluation including using the group communication evaluation information and the personal utterance evaluation information to produce entire communication group evaluation information.

A communication system is configured to broadcast utterance voice data received from one of mobile communication terminals to other mobile communication terminals, to control text delivery such that a result of utterance voice recognition from voice recognition processing on the received utterance voice data is displayed on the mobile communication terminals in synchronization, and to use the result of utterance voice recognition to perform communication evaluation. The communication evaluation includes a first evaluation including evaluating a dialogue between users based on a group dialogue index to produce group communication evaluation information, a second evaluation including evaluating utterances constituting the dialogue between the users based on a personal utterance index to produce personal utterance evaluation information, and a third evaluation including using the group communication evaluation information and the personal utterance evaluation information to produce entire communication group evaluation information.