TAILORED VOICE NAVIGATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM

• US 20170292853A1
• Filed: 04/06/2016
• Published: 10/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bostick, James E., Ganci, JR., John M., Keen, Martin G., Rakshit, Sarbajit K.
• Application Number:
  US15/091,959
• Publication Number:
  US 20170292853A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3629 Guidance using speech or audio output, e.g. text-to-speech text to speech systems per se G10L13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/033 Voice editing, e.g. manipulating the voice of the synthesiser
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/08 Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2013/021 Overlap-add techniques

Abstract

An approach, for tailoring voice navigation instruction output. A navigation audio tailor receives songs including instrumental segments and associated vocal segments. The navigation audio tailor identifies, instrumental only segments where the instrumental only segments mark time durations based on the instrumental segments being absent of the associated vocal segments. The navigation audio tailor receives, navigations instructions where the navigation instructions are based on text to create voice navigation instructions. The navigation audio tailor determines, navigation instruction output timing where the navigation instructions output timing is associated to one of the instrumental only segments to create tailored navigation instructions and the navigation audio tailor outputs the tailored navigation instructions to an audio playback device where the output combines at least one of the songs.

Claims

1. A method for tailoring voice navigation instruction output, the method comprising:

receiving, by navigation audio tailor, one or more songs comprising one or more instrumental segments and associated one or more vocal segments;

identifying, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more instrumental only segments;

receiving, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more text navigation instructions wherein the one or more text navigation instructions are used to create one or more voice navigation instructions;

determining, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more output timings based on the one or more voice navigation instructions and at least one of the one or more instrumental only segments, creating one or more tailored navigation instructions; and

outputting, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more tailored navigation instructions to an audio playback device to combine the one or more tailored navigation instructions with at least one of the one or more songs.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more modified text navigation instructions wherein the one or more modified text navigation instructions are based on at least one of removing text, moving text and replacing text associated with the one or more navigation instructions; and

replacing, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more text navigation instructions with the one or more modified text navigation instructions.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more traffic feed information;

determining, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more modified output timings wherein the one or more modified output timings are associated with the one or more traffic feed information, creating one or more modified tailored navigation instructions; and

replacing, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more tailored navigation instructions with the one or more modified tailored navigation instructions.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more planned navigation instructions wherein the one or more planned navigation instructions are based on one or more planned navigation routes;

receiving, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more playlist songs wherein the one or more playlist songs comprises the one or more songs;

determining, by the navigation audio tailor, a sequence selection of the one or more playlist songs wherein the one or more planned navigation instructions playback timings closely match the one or more instrumental only segments of the one or more playlist songs, creating a sequenced playlist collection; and

replacing, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more songs with the sequenced playlist collection.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more instrumental only segments create a song profile for each of the one or more songs.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein creating, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more modified text navigation instructions is based on identifying at least one of recurrent words and contextual words comprising the one or more text navigation instructions associated to a navigation maneuver.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more output timings, is constrained by a predetermined output tolerance based on at least one of a time and a distance to perform a navigation maneuver.

8. A computer program product for tailoring voice navigation instruction output, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to, receive, by navigation audio tailor, one or more songs comprising one or more instrumental segments and associated one or more vocal segments;

program instructions to, identify, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more instrumental only segments;

program instructions to, receive, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more text navigation instructions wherein the one or more text navigation instructions are used to create one or more voice navigation instructions;

program instructions to, determine, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more output timings based on the one or more voice navigation instructions and at least one of the one or more instrumental only segments, creating one or more tailored navigation instructions; and

program instructions to, output, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more tailored navigation instructions to an audio playback device to combine the one or more tailored navigation instructions with at least one of the one or more songs.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, further comprising:

program instructions to, create, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more modified text navigation instructions wherein the one or more modified text navigation instructions are based on at least one of removing text, moving text and replacing text associated with the one or more text navigation instructions; and

program instructions to, replace, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more text navigation instructions with the one or more modified text navigation instructions.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, further comprising:

program instructions to, receive, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more traffic feed information;

program instructions to, determine, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more modified output timings wherein the one or more modified output timings are associated with the one or more traffic feed information, creating one or more modified tailored navigation instructions; and

program instructions to, replace, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more tailored navigation instructions with the one or more modified tailored navigation instructions.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, further comprising:

program instructions to, receive, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more planned navigation instructions wherein the one or more planned navigation instructions are based on one or more planned navigation routes;

program instructions to, receive, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more playlist songs wherein the one or more playlist songs comprises the one or more songs;

program instructions to, determine, by the navigation audio tailor, a sequence selection of the one or more playlist songs wherein the one or more planned navigation instructions playback timings closely match the one or more instrumental only segments of the one or more playlist songs, creating a sequenced playlist collection; and

program instructions to, replace, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more songs with the sequenced playlist collection.

12. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein identify, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more instrumental only segments create a song profile for each of the one or more songs.

13. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein create, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more modified text navigation instructions is based on identifying at least one of recurrent words and contextual words comprising the one or more text navigation instructions associated to a navigation maneuver.

14. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the one or more output timings, is constrained by a predetermined output tolerance based on at least one of a time and a distance to perform a navigation maneuver.

15. A computer system for tailoring voice navigation instruction output, the computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors;

one or more computer readable storage media;

program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to, receive, by navigation audio tailor, one or more songs comprising one or more instrumental segments and associated one or more vocal segments;

program instructions to, identify, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more instrumental only segments;

program instructions to, receive, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more text navigation instructions wherein the one or more text navigation instructions are used to create one or more voice navigation instructions;

program instructions to, determine, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more output timings based on the one or more voice navigation instructions and at least one of the one or more instrumental only segments, creating one or more tailored navigation instructions; and

program instructions to, output, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more tailored navigation instructions to an audio playback device to combine the one or more tailored navigation instructions with at least one of the one or more songs.

16. The computer system of claim 15, further comprising:

program instructions to, create, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more modified text navigation instructions wherein the one or more modified text navigation instructions are based on at least one of removing text, moving text and replacing text associated with the one or more text navigation instructions; and

program instructions to, replace, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more text navigation instructions with the one or more modified text navigation instructions.

17. The computer system of claim 15, further comprising:

program instructions to, receive, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more traffic feed information;

program instructions to, determine, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more modified output timings wherein the one or more modified output timings are associated with the one or more traffic feed information, creating one or more modified tailored navigation instructions; and

program instructions to, replace, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more tailored navigation instructions with the one or more modified tailored navigation instructions.

18. The computer system of claim 15, further comprising:

program instructions to, receive, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more planned navigation instructions wherein the one or more planned navigation instructions are based on one or more planned navigation routes;

program instructions to, receive, by the navigation audio tailor, one or more playlist songs wherein the one or more playlist songs comprises the one or more songs;

program instructions to, determine, by the navigation audio tailor, a sequence selection of the one or more playlist songs wherein the one or more planned navigation instructions playback timings closely match the one or more instrumental only segments of the one or more playlist songs, creating a sequenced playlist collection; and

program instructions to, replace, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more songs with the sequenced playlist collection.

19. The computer system of claim 15, wherein identify, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more instrumental only segments create a song profile for each of the one or more songs.

20. The computer system of claim 16, wherein create, by the navigation audio tailor, the one or more modified text navigation instructions is based on identifying at least one of recurrent words and contextual words comprising the one or more text navigation instructions associated to a navigation maneuver.