Establishing a multimodal application voice

• US 20060287865A1
• Filed: 06/16/2005
• Published: 12/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Pike, Hilary A., Wintermute, David W., Lewis, Benjamin D., Jablokov, Igor R., Smith, Daniel M., Hollinger, Michael C., Zaitzeff, Michael A., Cross, Charles W. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US11/154,900
• Publication Number:
  US 20060287865A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue

Abstract

Establishing a multimodal application voice including selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application and creating in dependence upon the voice personality a VoiceXML dialog. Selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application may also include retrieving a user profile and selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the user profile. Selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application may also include retrieving a sponsor profile and selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the sponsor profile. Selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application may also include retrieving a system profile and selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the system profile.

Claims

1. A method for establishing a multimodal application voice, the method comprising;

selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application; and

creating in dependence upon the voice personality a VoiceXML dialog.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application further comprises retrieving a user profile and selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the user profile.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application further comprises retrieving a sponsor profile and selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the sponsor profile.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application further comprises retrieving a system profile and selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the system profile.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein creating in dependence upon the voice personality a VoiceXML dialog further comprises selecting in dependence upon the voice personality an aural style sheet.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein creating in dependence upon the voice personality a VoiceXML dialog further comprises selecting in dependence upon the voice personality a grammar.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein creating in dependence upon the voice personality a VoiceXML dialog further comprises selecting in dependence upon the voice personality a language model.

8. A system for establishing a multimodal application voice, the system comprising;

a computer processor;

a computer memory coupled for data transfer to the processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions comprising;

a voice engine capable of;

selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application; and

creating in dependence upon the voice personality a VoiceXML dialog.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the voice engine is further capable of retrieving a user profile and selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the user profile.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein the voice engine is further capable of retrieving a sponsor profile and selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the sponsor profile.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein the voice engine is further capable of retrieving a system profile and selecting a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the system profile.

12. The system of claim 8 wherein the voice engine is further capable of selecting in dependence upon the voice personality an aural style sheet.

13. The system of claim 8 wherein the voice engine is further capable of selecting in dependence upon the voice personality a grammar.

14. The system of claim 8 wherein the voice engine is further capable of selecting in dependence upon the voice personality a language model.

15. A computer program product for establishing a multimodal application voice, the computer program product disposed upon a recording medium, the computer program product comprising:

computer program instructions that select a voice personality for the multimodal application; and

computer program instructions that create in dependence upon the voice personality a VoiceXML dialog.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein computer program instructions that select a voice personality for the multimodal application further comprise computer program instructions that retrieve a user profile and computer program instructions that select a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the user profile.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein computer program instructions that select a voice personality for the multimodal application further comprise computer program instructions that retrieve a sponsor profile and computer program instructions that select a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the sponsor profile.

18. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein computer program instructions that select a voice personality for the multimodal application further comprise computer program instructions that retrieve a system profile and computer program instructions that select a voice personality for the multimodal application in dependence upon the system profile.

19. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein computer program instructions that create in dependence upon the voice personality a VoiceXML dialog further comprise computer program instructions that select in dependence upon the voice personality an aural style sheet.

20. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein computer program instructions that create in dependence upon the voice personality a VoiceXML dialog further comprise computer program instructions that select in dependence upon the voice personality a grammar.