Voice binding for user interface navigation system
First Claim
1. A method of navigating a menu structure within an electronic product, comprising the steps of:
- identifying a first location within said menu;
obtaining a first utterance of speech;
associating said first utterance with said first location and generating therefrom a stored first location;
obtaining a second utterance of speech; and
matching said second utterance with said first utterance to identify said stored first location within said menu; and
navigating to said first location.
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Abstract
The voice binding system associates spoken commands of a user'"'"'s choosing with the semantic path or sequence used to navigate through a menu structure associated with the electronic device. After storing this association, the user can later navigate to the tagged location in the menu structure by simply uttering the spoken command again. Spoken commands are stored during the record mode in a lexicon that is later used by the speech recognizer. The voice binding database stores associations of voice commands and semantic strings, where the semantic strings correspond to the menu text items found in the linked list associated with the devices menu.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of navigating a menu structure within an electronic product, comprising the steps of:
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identifying a first location within said menu;
obtaining a first utterance of speech;
associating said first utterance with said first location and generating therefrom a stored first location;
obtaining a second utterance of speech; and
matching said second utterance with said first utterance to identify said stored first location within said menu; and
navigating to said first location.
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2. A method of navigating a menu structure within an electronic product, comprising the steps of:
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identifying a user-selected navigation path through said menu structure to a first location within said menu;
obtaining a first utterance of speech;
associating said first utterance with said navigation path;
obtaining a second utterance of speech; and
matching said second utterance with said first utterance to retrieve said navigation path associated with said first utterance; and
using said retrieved navigation path to navigate to said first location within said menu. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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15. A voice binding system to aid in user operation of electronic devices, comprising:
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a menu navigator that provides a traversable menu structure offering a plurality of predefined menu locations;
a speech recognizer having an associated lexicon data store;
a processor for adding user-defined speech to said lexicon; and
a voice binding system coupled to said menu navigator for associating said user-defined speech with predetermined menu locations within said menu structure, operable to traverse to a predetermined menu location in response to a spoken utterance corresponding to said user-defined speech.
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