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Dynamically generating a vocal help prompt in a multimodal application

US8086463B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 12, 2006
Grant dateDec 27, 2011
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Expiry dateJul 4, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M3/4938
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Dynamically generating a vocal help prompt in a multimodal application that include detecting a help-triggering event for an input element of a VoiceXML dialog, where the detecting is implemented with a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal application is operatively coupled to a VoiceXML interpreter, and the multimodal application has no static help text. Dynamically generating a vocal help prompt in a multimodal application according to embodiments of the present invention typically also includes retrieving, by the VoiceXML interpreter from a source of help text, help text for an element of a speech recognition grammar, forming by the VoiceXML interpreter the help text into a vocal help prompt, and presenting by the multimodal application the vocal help prompt through a computer user interface to a user.

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