Voice mode asset retrieval

• US 10,262,660 B2
• Filed: 01/05/2016
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Zabel, Shawn, Pike, Jeffrey, Bender, Brian, Doubleday, Dennis, Murawski, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Shreyans A
• Application Number:
  US14/987,913
• Publication Number:
  US 20160203820A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,197 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/10 using distance or distortion measures between unknown speech and reference templates
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/0631 Creating reference templates; Clustering
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1083 Reduction of ambient noise active noise reduction per se G10K11/175; protective devices for the ear, e.g. providing acoustic protection A61F11/06

Abstract

A method includes detecting an event published to a workflow activity by a voice based dialog view, wherein the event indicates a state of asset retrieval, navigating to a built-in asset retrieval work activity, retrieving an asset, and dismissing the workflow activity to revert to a workflow activity associated with the voice based dialog view.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

loading a first workflow activity into a terminal, the first workflow activity having a voice based dialog view that uses a voice interface comprising a voice recognition headset in communication with the terminal;

publishing, via a processor of the terminal, by the voice based dialog view, an event, wherein the event indicates a state of asset retrieval associated with the voice interface, and wherein the event is published when the first workflow activity using a voice based dialog view is encountered when executing a workflow activity based application;

detecting, by the processor of the terminal, the published event;

navigating, in response to the detecting, to a second workflow activity corresponding to a built-in asset retrieval work activity;

retrieving, by performing the second workflow activity, an asset from a remote server, wherein the asset is configured for use in voice recognition;

loading the retrieved asset into the terminal to prepare the voice interface for voice recognition;

dismissing the second workflow activity to revert to the first workflow activity having the voice based dialog view, wherein the second workflow activity dismisses itself upon retrieving of the asset; and

using, by the first workflow activity having the voice based dialog view, the retrieved asset in the voice interface to perform voice recognition.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the retrieved asset comprises a worker based voice template for use in voice recognition.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the event includes a worker ID that uniquely identifies the worker based voice template.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein retrieving an asset comprises:

obtaining a worker ID;

accessing a remote storage using the worker ID to obtain a corresponding worker based voice template.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein retrieving an asset comprises:

obtaining a worker ID;

determining whether a worker based voice template associated with the worker ID exists;

if no associated worker ID exists, performing a voice template training method with the worker; and

storing the voice template.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the voice based dialog view is one of multiple views to provide user interfaces for an application formed of workflow activities.

7. A machine readable storage device having instructions for execution by a processor of the machine to perform a method comprising:

detecting, by the processor, an event published by a voice based dialog view in a first workflow activity, the voice based dialog view being associated with a voice interface comprising a voice recognition headset in communication with a terminal, wherein the event indicates a state of asset retrieval associated with the voice interface, and wherein the event is published when the first workflow activity using a voice based dialog view is encountered when executing a workflow activity based application;

navigating to a second workflow activity corresponding to a built-in asset retrieval work activity;

retrieving, by performing the second workflow activity, an asset for use in voice recognition from a remote server;

loading the retrieved asset into the terminal to prepare the voice interface for voice recognition; and

dismissing the second workflow activity to revert to the first workflow activity associated with the voice based dialog view, wherein the second workflow activity dismisses itself upon retrieving of the asset.

8. The machine readable storage device of claim 7 wherein the retrieved asset comprises a worker based voice template for use in voice recognition.

9. The machine readable storage device of claim 8 wherein the event includes a worker ID that uniquely identifies the worker based voice template.

10. The machine readable storage device of claim 7 wherein retrieving an asset comprises:

obtaining a worker ID;

accessing a remote storage using the worker ID to obtain a corresponding worker based voice template.

11. The machine readable storage device of claim 7 wherein retrieving an asset comprises:

obtaining a worker ID;

determining whether a worker based voice template associated with the worker ID exists;

if no associated worker ID exists, performing a voice template training method with the worker; and

storing the voice template.

12. The machine readable storage device of claim 7 wherein the voice based dialog view is one of multiple views to provide user interfaces for an application formed of workflow activities.

13. A system comprising:

a voice interface comprising a terminal in communication with a voice recognition headset having a microphone and a speaker;

a server storing an asset for use in voice recognition on the voice interface; and

a module of the voice interface having a processor and a memory, the processor programmed to perform a method comprising;

detecting an event published by a voice based dialog view in a first workflow activity, the voice based dialog view being associated with the voice interface, wherein the event indicates a state of asset retrieval associated with the voice interface, and wherein the event is published when the first workflow activity using a voice based dialog view is encountered when executing a workflow activity based application;

navigating to a second workflow activity which corresponds to a built-in asset retrieval work activity;

retrieving, from the server, the asset for use in voice recognition;

loading, by the processor, the retrieved asset into the terminal to prepare the voice interface for voice recognition; and

dismissing, by the processor, the second workflow activity to revert to the first workflow activity associated with the voice based dialog view, wherein the second workflow activity dismisses itself upon retrieving of the asset.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the asset comprises a worker based voice template for use in voice recognition and wherein the event includes a worker ID that uniquely identifies the worker based voice template.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein retrieving an asset comprises:

obtaining a worker ID from a device storage device;

accessing a remote storage using the worker ID to obtain a corresponding worker based voice template.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein retrieving an asset comprises:

obtaining a worker ID;

determining whether a worker based voice template associated with the worker headset ID exists;

if no associated worker ID exists, performing a voice template training method with the worker; and

storing the voice template.