Automated process and system for converting a flowchart into a speech mark-up language

• US 20070180365A1
• Filed: 01/27/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: West Interactive Corporation (West Corporation)
• Original Assignee: West Interactive Corporation (West Corporation)
• Inventors: Khosla, Ashok Mitter
• Application Number:
  US11/342,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20070180365A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/28 Constructional details of speech recognition systems

Abstract

In one embodiment a method for a data processing system is provided. The method comprises reading data corresponding to a flowchart; and generating an equivalent representation of the flowchart in a speech mark-up language. The flowchart may have been created in an arbitrary programming environment, and generating the equivalent representation is independent of a programming environment that was used to create the flowchart.

Claims

1. A method for a data processing system, comprising:

reading data corresponding to a flowchart; and

generating an equivalent representation of the flowchart in a speech mark-up language.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the flowchart was created using an arbitrary programming environment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the equivalent representation is independent of a programming environment that was used to create the flowchart.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising compiling the equivalent representation into a delivery language.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein reading the data corresponding to the flowchart comprises converting the data into a mark-up language format.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein generating the equivalent representation of the flowchart comprises first generating a network graph to represent the flowchart.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein generating the network graph is based upon shape and linking information about objects in the flowchart.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising determining if the network graph is cyclic;

and transforming said network graph into a plurality of acyclic graphs if it is cyclic.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising tagging each object in the network graph with a speech language primitive.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the tagging is based upon a content of text information associated with the object.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the tagging is based upon shape information associated with the object.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the tagging is based upon spatial information about a location of the object in the flowchart.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising compiling the equivalent representation into a delivery language.

13. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor cause the system to perform a method comprising;

reading data corresponding to a flowchart; and

generating an equivalent representation of the flowchart in a speech mark-up language.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the flowchart was created using an arbitrary programming environment.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein generating the equivalent representation is independent of a programming environment that was used to create the flowchart.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein reading the data corresponding to the flowchart comprises converting the data into a mark-up language format.

18. A computer readable medium, having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which when executed by a processing system, cause the system to perform a method comprising:

reading data corresponding to a flowchart; and

generating an equivalent representation of the flowchart in a speech mark-up language.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein the flowchart was created using an arbitrary programming environment.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein generating the equivalent representation is independent of a programming environment that was used to create the flowchart.