SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO NATURAL LANGUAGE SPEECH UTTERANCE
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Abstract
Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and command environment. This environment makes significant use of context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users making queries or commands in multiple domains. Through this integrated approach, a complete speech-based natural language query and response environment can be created. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.
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32 Claims
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1-17. -17. (canceled)
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18. A method responsive to a user generated natural language speech utterance, comprising:
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receiving the user generated natural language speech utterance, the received user utterance containing at least one request; determining a meaning of the utterance, wherein determining the meaning includes parsing information relating to the utterance to determine a context for the at least one request contained in the utterance; formulating the at least one request contained in the utterance in accordance with a grammar used by a domain agent that receives, processes, and responds to requests associated with the determined context; and presenting results of the processed request to the user, the presented results generated as a result of the domain agent processing the formulated request. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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