Sound exchanges with voice service systems
First Claim
1. A method of interacting with a human user through a sound service system, wherein the service system participates with the human user both in normal voice dialog exchanges, and in a multi-turn sound exchange the form and content of which are pre-specified and already public, this sound exchange involving one or more cycles in each of which the service and user take turns to provide a noise or utterance with the appropriate pre-specified content.
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Abstract
A sound service system participates in a multi-turn sound exchange with a human user, this sound exchange involving one or more cycles in each of which the service and user take turns to provide a noise or utterance the form or content of which is already public. The service system preferably also participates in normal voice dialog exchanges with the human user, the service system using a respective manager for the normal voice dialogs and the multi-turn sound exchanges with control passing between the two managers as required, each manager when in control effecting this control according to a corresponding script.
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- 1. A method of interacting with a human user through a sound service system, wherein the service system participates with the human user both in normal voice dialog exchanges, and in a multi-turn sound exchange the form and content of which are pre-specified and already public, this sound exchange involving one or more cycles in each of which the service and user take turns to provide a noise or utterance with the appropriate pre-specified content.
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18. A method of interacting with a human user through a sound service system, wherein the service system participates in a multi-turn sound exchange with the user, this sound exchange involving one or more cycles in each of which the service and user take turns to provide a noise or utterance the form or content of which is already public.
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19. A sound service system comprising a sound input channel for receiving and interpreting sound input signals, a sound output channel for generating sound output signals, and a dialog manager connected to an output of the sound input channel and an input of the sound output channel, the dialog manager being operative to manage the participation of the service system in exchanges with a user and comprising:
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means for managing participation of the service system in normal voice dialog exchanges with the user, and means for managing participation of the service system in a multi-turn sound exchange with the user, the form and content of this exchange being pre-specified and already public, and the exchange involving one or more cycles in each of which the service and user take turns to provide a noise or utterance with the appropriate pre-specified content. in a multi-turn sound exchange with a human user that involves one or more cycles in each of which the service and user take turns to provide a noise or utterance the form or content of which is already public.
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23. A sound service system comprising:
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a sound input channel for receiving and interpreting sound input signals;
a sound output channel for generating sound output signals, a voice service manager connected to the output side of the sound input channel and the input side of the sound output channel, the voice service manager serving to manage normal voice dialog interactions with a human user;
a multi-turn dialog manager connected to the output side of the sound input channel and the input side of the sound output channel, the multi-turn dialog manager being operative to manage the participation of the service system in a multi-turn sound exchange with a human user that involves one or more cycles in each of which the service and user take turns to provide a noise or utterance; and
a changeover controller for switching control between the voice service manager and the multi-turn dialog manager.
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