ENHANCING ENVIRONMENT VOICE MACROS VIA SAVE/RESTORE STATE OF OBJECT WITHIN AN ENVIRONMENT CONTROLLED BY VOICE COMANDS

• US 20080046251A1
• Filed: 08/15/2006
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerence Operating Company (Cerence Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Commarford, Patrick M., Agapi, Ciprian, Blass, Oscar J., Vila, Roberto, Almutawa, Musaed A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,583,096 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/07 to the speaker
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A method for state transition in voice systems including: generating one or more stackable state macros, each of the one or more stackable state macros including a plurality of commands; saving the current state before executing another macro; enabling restoring the previous state after a plurality of commands is completed, allowing a user to utter voice commands to restore the individual state of components or the voice systems as a whole to the previous state or to a known home state.

Claims

1. A method for state transition in voice systems, the method comprising:

generating one or more stackable state macros, each of the one or more stackable state macros including a plurality of commands;

saving a current state before executing another macro;

enabling restoring a previous state after the plurality of commands are completed; and

allowing a user to utter voice commands to restore an individual state of the voice systems as a whole to the previous state or to a known home state.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user is permitted to pre-define the plurality of commands in each of the one or more stackable state macros.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user is permitted to save the pre-defined plurality of commands by uttering a voice command.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein activating a feature excluded from the one or more stackable macros does not affect a state of each of the plurality of commands in each of the one or more stackable state macros.

5. A system for state transition in voice systems, the system comprising:

a network; and

a host system in communication with the network, the host system including software to implement a method comprising;

generating one or more stackable state macros, each of the one or more stackable state macros including a plurality of commands;

saving a current state before executing another macro;

enabling restoring a previous state after the plurality of commands are completed; and

allowing a user to utter voice commands to restore an individual state of the voice systems as a whole to the previous state or to a known home state.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the user is permitted to pre-define the plurality of commands in each of the one or more stackable state macros.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the user is permitted to save the pre-defined plurality of commands by uttering a voice command.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein activating a feature excluded from the one or more stackable macros does not affect a state of each of the plurality of commands in each of the one or more stackable state macros.