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Audio User Interface

  • US 20030018477A1
  • Filed: 01/29/2002
  • Published: 01/23/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An audio user-interfacing method in which services are represented by audio labels presented in an audio field through respective synthesized sound sources, the method comprising the steps of:

  • (a) storing, for each service to be represented, service access data and data associating the service with at least one said sound source and specifying at least one audio label;

    (b) generating an audio field in which said sound sources are synthesized at respective rendering positions to sound their associated service-representing audio labels;

    (c) selecting a service by identifying it through at least one of its sound source and audio label;

    the method further involving enabling a user to modify the audio-field layout of the service-representing sound sources and/or what services are represented in the audio field.

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