Abstract: A voice user interface authoring tool is configured to use categorized example caller responses, from which callflow paths, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing control files can be generated automatically within a single, integrated authoring user interface. A voice user interface (VUI) design component allows an author to create an application incorporating various types of action nodes, including Prompt/Response Processing (PRP) nodes. At runtime, the system uses the information from each PRP node to prompt a user to say something, and to process the user's response in order to extract its meaning. An Automatic Speech Recognition/Natural Language Processing (ASR/NLP) Control Design component allows the author to associate sample inputs with each possible meaning, and automatically generates the necessary ASR and NLP runtime control files.

Abstract: Machine translation architecture for natural language application development. The architecture facilitates automatic translation of developed training datasets into a full set of desired target languages. Additionally, select ones of the training data can be tagged and utilized as a test dataset for testing performance. Accordingly, only a single input dataset is utilized, and from which all other datasets are created via machine translation. The architecture includes a first dataset of natural language data in a first human language which can be automatically translated via a machine translation component into at least a second dataset in a second human language. In one aspect, the data of the input dataset is then replaced by the translated data output from the machine translation engine to form the final dataset in a different language.

Abstract: A voice user interface authoring tool is configured to use categorized example caller responses, from which callflow paths, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing control files can be generated automatically within a single, integrated authoring user interface. A voice user interface (VUI) design component allows an author to create an application incorporating various types of action nodes, including Prompt/Response Processing (PRP) nodes. At runtime, the system uses the information from each PRP node to prompt a user to say something, and to process the user's response in order to extract its meaning. An Automatic Speech Recognition/Natural Language Processing (ASR/NLP) Control Design component allows the author to associate sample inputs with each possible meaning, and automatically generates the necessary ASR and NLP runtime control files.