Abstract: Transit voice assistant is a conversational voice-based assistant, accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. It responds to user's request for real-time transit system information as well as transit alerts. Just say where you want to go to and transit voice assistant will make it happen. Transit voice assistant provides a unique experience for the customer by enabling the user to interact in a more intuitive way using only their voice. Transit voice assistant responds to the way users speak and think, without requiring users to type on a keyboard or screen. Transit voice assistant brings customers new levels of ease and convenience through voice technology, including natural language understanding and automatic speech recognition. The transit voice assistant is constantly learning and improves as more data is collected. Reach and delight more customers, where they are, through millions of voice powered devices.

Abstract: The real-time audio and text generator described herein provides a system that produces real-time audio and text messages to be delivered to passengers in situ in real-time. All data included as audio and text is dynamically generated. Audio output is delivered in mp3 and way file format. Text base data is delivered as raw text that may be accessed through a RESTful API. Any user device that can support audio streaming and/or RESTful text interfaces can be a consumer of the system.