Guided personal companion

US9710613B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Affinity Project, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ronald Steven Suskind · Cambridge, US
• John N. Nguyen · Belmont, US
• Stuart R. Patterson · Hull, US
• Stephen R. Springer · Needham, US
• Mark Fanty · Norfolk, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 4, 2016
• Grant date: Jul 18, 2017
• Expiry date: Feb 4, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G10L13/00
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The operation of an application on a first device may be guided by a user operating a second device. The application on the first device may present a character on a display of the first device and obtain an audio signal of speech of a user of the first device. Audio data may be transmitted to the second device and corresponding audio may be played from speakers of the second device. The second device may present suggestions of phrases to be spoken by the character displayed on the first device. A user of the second device may select a phrase to be spoken by the character. Phrase data may be transmitted to the first device, and the first device may generate audio of the character speaking the phrase using a text-to-speech voice associated with the character.