Method for accessing data via voice
US7493259B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 4, 2002 |
| Grant date | Feb 17, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 28, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/332
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for providing access to data via a voice interface. In one embodiment, the system includes a voice recognition unit and a speech processing server that work together to enable users to interact with the system using voice commands guided by navigation context sensitive voice prompts, and provide user-requested data in a verbalized format back to the users. Digitized voice waveform data are processed to determine the voice commands of the user. The system also uses a “grammar” that enables users to retrieve data using intuitive natural language speech queries. In response to such a query, a corresponding data query is generated by the system to retrieve one or more data sets corresponding to the query. The user is then enabled to browse the data that are returned through voice command navigation, wherein the system “reads” the data back to the user using text-to-speech (TTS) conversion and system prompts.
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