Method and system for automatically creating voice XML file

• US 20040093217A1
• Filed: 07/29/2003
• Published: 05/13/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Su, Hui, Wang, Qianying, Yeh, James Tien-Cheng
• Granted Patent: US 7,478,048 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/42 Graphical user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/355 Interactive dialogue design tools, features or methods
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4936 Speech interaction details speech recognition per se G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

This invention discloses a system for creating voice XML file automatically, comprising: a graphic user interface for defining a plurality of icons, wherein each of said icons corresponds to one or more attributes of voice XML; voice XML tag generator for interpreting said action stream based on a library of voice XML tags, generating the corresponding voice XML tags; and, voice XML file generator for combing the contents to be played with the tags generated by the voice XML tag generator according voice XML syntax, for creating the voice XML file. This system can create the voice XML file for the TTS voice XML file or the real-time-recorded audio voice XML file.

Claims

1. A method for creating a voice XML file automatically, comprising:

providing a graphic user interface for defining a plurality of icons, each of said icons corresponding to one or more attributes of voice XML;

recording an action stream of a user invoking said icons in the graphic user interface; and

interpreting said action stream based on a library of voice XML tags to create the voice XML file.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that said graphic user interface comprises a graphic user interface for adding one or more audio hyperlinks for a voice XML file automatically, wherein each icon, defined in said graphic user interface, corresponds to a kind of hyperlink.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said adding hyperlinks comprises adding the hyperlinks to a TTS voice XML file, and wherein said adding comprises the user editing the TTS voice XML file in the edit area of said graphic user interface, marking or entering the parts to be added with the hyperlinks, invoking the corresponding icons and entering the corresponding hyperlink addresses.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein said adding hyperlinks comprises adding the hyperlinks to a real-time-recorded audio voice XML stream, and wherein said adding comprises the user editing the TTS voice XML file in the edit area of said graphic user interface, marking or entering the parts to be added with the hyperlinks, invoking the corresponding icons and entering the corresponding hyperlink addresses, and wherein speech recognition technology is applied to find the parts in the real-time-recorded audio voice XML stream that match the parts entered by the user when interpreting said action stream based on a library of voice XML tags.

5. The method according to claim 3, characterized in that when the user marks or enters the same parts to be added with the hyperlinks in the edit area of the graphic user interface for many times and invokes the same hyperlink attributes, the hyperlinks for the whole TTS voice XML stream are batch-added.

6. The method according to claim 4, characterized in that when user marks or enters the same parts to be added with the hyperlinks in the edit area of the graphic user interface for many times and invokes the same hyperlink attributes, the hyperlinks for the whole real-time-recorded audio voice XML stream are batch-added.

7. A system for creating voice XML file automatically, comprising:

a graphic user interface for defining a plurality of icons, wherein each of said icons corresponds to one or more attributes of voice XML;

a voice XML tag generator for interpreting said action stream based on a library of voice XML tags and generating the corresponding voice XML tags; and

a voice XML file generator for creating the voice XML file by combining the contents to be played with the tags generated by the voice XML tag generator according to voice XML syntax.

8. A system according to claim 7, characterized in that said graphic user interface comprise a graphic user interface component for adding audio hyperlinks for VoiceXML file automatically, wherein each icon, defined in said graphic user interface, corresponds to a kind of hyperlink.

9. A system according to claim 8, wherein said adding the hyperlinks comprises adding hyperlinks for a TTS voice XML stream, and wherein said adding comprises the user editing the TTS voice XML file in the edit area of said graphic user interface, marking or typing the parts to be added the hyperlinks, invoking the corresponding icons and typing the corresponding hyperlink addresses.

10. A system according to claim 8, wherein said adding comprises adding the hyperlinks for real-time-recorded audio voice XML stream and wherein said system further comprises a speech recognition engine, said adding comprising the user editing the TTS voice XML file in the edit area of said graphic user interface, marking or typing the parts to be added the hyperlinks, invoking the corresponding icons and typing the corresponding hyperlink addresses, and wherein said interpreting said action stream based on a library of voice XML tags further comprises said speech recognition engine finding the parts in the real-time-recorded audio Voice XML stream that match the parts entered by the user.

11. A system according to claim 9, characterized in that when the user marks or enters the same parts to be added as hyperlinks in the edit area of the graphic user interface component for many times, and invokes the same hyperlinking attributes, said component adds the hyperlinks for the whole TTS voice XML stream.

12. A system according to claim 10, characterized in that when user marks or enters the same parts to be added as hyperlinks in the edit area of the graphic user interface component for many times, and invokes the same hyperlinking attributes, said component adds the hyperlinks for the whole real-time-recorded audio voice XML stream.

13. A program storage device readable by machine tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by said machine to perform method steps for creating a voice XML file automatically, said method comprising the steps of:

providing a graphic user interface for defining a plurality of icons, each of said icons corresponds to one or more attributes of voice XML;

recording an action stream of a user invoking said icons in the graphic user interface; and

interpreting said action stream based on a library of voice XML tags to create the voice XML file.

14. The program storage device according to claim 13 wherein said method is characterized in that said graphic user interface comprises a graphic user interface for adding one or more audio hyperlinks for a voice XML file automatically, and wherein each icon, defined in said graphic user interface, corresponds to a kind of hyperlink.

15. The program storage device according to claim 14, wherein said adding hyperlinks comprises adding the hyperlinks to a TTS voice XML file, and wherein said adding comprises the user editing the TTS voice XML file in the edit area of said graphic user interface, marking or entering the parts to be added with the hyperlinks, invoking the corresponding icons and entering the corresponding hyperlink addresses.

16. The program storage device according to claim 14, wherein said adding hyperlinks comprises adding the hyperlinks to a real-time-recorded audio voice XML stream, and wherein said adding comprises the user editing the TTS voice XML file in the edit area of said graphic user interface, marking or entering the parts to be added with the hyperlinks, invoking the corresponding icons and entering the corresponding hyperlink addresses, and wherein speech recognition technology is applied to find the parts in the real-time-recorded audio voice XML stream that match the parts entered by the user when interpreting said action stream based on a library of voice XML tags.

17. The program storage device according to claim 15, characterized in that when the user marks or enters the same parts to be added with the hyperlinks in the edit area of the graphic user interface for many times and invokes the same hyperlink attributes, the hyperlinks for the whole TTS voice XML stream are batch-added.

18. The program storage device according to claim 16, characterized in that when user marks or enters the same parts to be added with the hyperlinks in the edit area of the graphic user interface for many times and invokes the same hyperlink attributes, the hyperlinks for the whole real-time-recorded audio voice XML stream are batch-added.