USER SPEECH INTERFACES FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATIONS
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Abstract
A user speech interface for interactive media guidance applications, such as television program guides, guides for audio services, guides for video-on-demand (VOD) services, guides for personal video recorders (PVRs), or other suitable guidance applications is provided. Voice commands may be received from a user and guidance activities may be performed in response to the voice commands.
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178 Claims
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1-153. -153. (canceled)
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154. A method of performing guidance activities in an interactive media guidance application, comprising:
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providing content from a first user-specified media source to a user, wherein the first user-specified media source is of a first type; receiving a voice command from the user, wherein; the voice command indicates a user-specified guidance activity for a second user-specified media source, and the second user-specified media source is of a second type that is different from the first type; and performing the user-specified guidance activity for the second user-specified media source. - View Dependent Claims (155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165)
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166. A system for performing guidance activities in an interactive media guidance application, comprising:
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a microphone; a user output device; and an interactive media guidance application implemented at least partially on local processing circuitry and configured to; direct the user output device to provide content from a first user-specified media source to a user, wherein the first user-specified media source is of a first type; receive a voice command from the microphone, wherein; the voice command indicates a user-specified guidance activity for a second user-specified media source; and the second user-specified media source is of a second type that is different from the first type; perform the user-specified guidance activity for the second user-specified media source; and direct the user output device to provide an output to the user corresponding to the user-specified guidance activity. - View Dependent Claims (167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178)
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