METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERJECTING COMMENTS TO IMPROVE INFORMATION PRESENTATION IN SPOKEN USER INTERFACES
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for providing audio information to a user. The method and apparatus provide information in multiple modes that represent various pieces of information and/or alternatives.
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39 Claims
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32. A method of providing an audio menu to a user of an IVR, the method comprising the steps of:
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determining whether a secondary prompt is required to be played to the user of the IVR; upon a determination that the secondary prompt is required to be played, determining whether the audio menu is a speech-foreground menu; upon a determination that the menu is a speech-foreground menu, playing the secondary prompt in a second mode, the secondary prompt being in a grammatical form corresponding to the grammatical form of the audio menu, wherein the grammatical form comprises at least one of a declarative form, an imperative form, and an other form, and wherein the secondary prompt is played in a speech-foreground mode; and upon a determination that the audio menu is not a speech-foreground menu, playing the secondary prompt in a second mode, wherein the secondary prompt is played in a DTMF-foreground mode.
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34. A method of providing an audio menu to a user of an IVR, the method comprising the steps of:
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playing a primary prompt to the user by the IVR; determining whether an secondary prompt has been played previously to the user by the IVR; upon a determination that the secondary prompt has not been played previously, determining whether the menu is a speech-foreground menu; upon a determination that the audio menu is a speech-foreground menu, playing the secondary prompt in a second mode, the secondary prompt being in a grammatical form corresponding to the grammatical form of the audio menu, wherein the grammatical form comprises at least one of a declarative form, an imperative form, and an other form, and wherein the secondary prompt is played in a speech-foreground mode; and upon a determination that the audio menu is not a speech-foreground menu, playing the secondary prompt in a second mode, wherein the secondary interjecting comment is played in a DTMF-foreground mode. - View Dependent Claims (33, 35)
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36. A computer program product for providing an audio menu to a user of an IVR, the computer program product having a medium with a computer program embodied thereon, the computer program comprising instructions to:
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determining whether an secondary prompt is required to be played; upon a determination that the secondary prompt is required to be played, determining whether the audio menu is a speech-foreground menu; upon a determination that the audio menu is a speech-foreground menu, playing said secondary prompt in a second mode, the secondary prompt being in a grammatical form corresponding to the grammatical form of the audio menu, wherein the grammatical form comprises at least one of a declarative form, an imperative form, and an other form, and wherein the secondary prompt is played in a speech-foreground mode; and upon a determination that the audio menu is not a speech-foreground menu, playing a secondary prompt in a second mode, wherein the interjecting comment is played in a DTMF-foreground mode. - View Dependent Claims (37)
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38. A computer program product for providing an audio menu to a user of an IVR, the computer program product having a medium with a computer program embodied thereon, the computer program comprising instructions to:
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play a primary prompt; determine whether an secondary prompt has been played previously; upon a determination that the secondary prompt has not been played previously, determining whether the audio menu is a speech-foreground menu; upon a determination that the audio menu is a speech-foreground menu, play the secondary prompt in a second mode, the secondary prompt being in a grammatical form corresponding to the grammatical form of the audio menu, wherein the grammatical form comprises at least one of a declarative form, an imperative form, and an other form, and wherein the secondary prompt is played in a speech-foreground mode; and upon a determination that the audio menu is not a speech-foreground menu, play the secondary prompt in a second mode, wherein the secondary prompt is played in a DTMF-foreground mode. - View Dependent Claims (39)
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