Abstract: A cooperative conversational voice user interface is provided. The cooperative conversational voice user interface may build upon short-term and long-term shared knowledge to generate one or more explicit and/or implicit hypotheses about an intent of a user utterance. The hypotheses may be ranked based on varying degrees of certainty, and an adaptive response may be generated for the user. Responses may be worded based on the degrees of certainty and to frame an appropriate domain for a subsequent utterance. In one implementation, misrecognitions may be tolerated, and conversational course may be corrected based on subsequent utterances and/or responses.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 16, 2006
Publication date:
April 17, 2008
Applicant:
VoiceBox Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Larry Baldwin, Tom Freeman, Michael Tjalve, Blane Ebersold, Chris Weider
Abstract: A mobile system is provided that includes speech-based and non-speech-based interfaces for telematics applications. The mobile system identifies and uses context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for users that submit requests and/or commands in multiple domains. The invention creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command. The invention may organize domain specific behavior and information into agents, that are distributable or updateable over a wide area network.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 29, 2005
Publication date:
March 1, 2007
Applicant:
VoiceBox Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Chris Weider, Rich Kennewick, Mike Kennewick, Philippe Di Cristo, Robert Kennewick
Abstract: A system and method are provided for receiving speech and/or non-speech communications of natural language questions and/or commands and executing the questions and/or commands. The invention provides a conversational human-machine interface that includes a conversational speech analyzer, a general cognitive model, an environmental model, and a personalized cognitive model to determine context, domain knowledge, and invoke prior information to interpret a spoken utterance or a received non-spoken message. The system and method creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context of the speech or non-speech communication and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 10, 2005
Publication date:
February 15, 2007
Applicant:
VoiceBox Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Philippe Cristo, Chris Weider, Robert Kennewick
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving speech and non-speech communications of natural language questions and/or commands, transcribing the speech and non-speech communications to textual messages, and executing the questions and/or commands. The invention applies context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural enviromnent for one or more users presenting questions or commands across multiple domains. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context of the speech and non-speech communications and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 5, 2005
Publication date:
February 8, 2007
Applicant:
VoiceBox Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Philippe Cristo, Min Ke, Robert Kennewick