Systems and Methods for Enhancing Responsiveness to Utterances Having Detectable Emotion
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving a natural utterance via a user device, the natural utterance including a command and at least one emotion feature;
providing a digital representation of the natural utterance to each of an emotion processor and a command processor;
processing the digital representation with the emotion processor by extracting the at least one emotion feature from the digital representation; and
processing the digital representation with the command processor by extracting the command from the digital representation,wherein the processing the digital representation with the emotion processor and the processing the digital representation with the command processor are performed in parallel.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and related products that provide emotion-sensitive responses to user'"'"'s commands and other utterances received at an utterance-based user interface. Acknowledgements of user'"'"'s utterances are adapted to the user and/or the user device, and emotions detected in the user'"'"'s utterance that have been mapped from one or more emotion features extracted from the utterance. In some examples, extraction of a user'"'"'s changing emotion during a sequence of interactions is used to generate a response to a user'"'"'s uttered command. In some examples, emotion processing and command processing of natural utterances are performed asynchronously.
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15 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving a natural utterance via a user device, the natural utterance including a command and at least one emotion feature; providing a digital representation of the natural utterance to each of an emotion processor and a command processor; processing the digital representation with the emotion processor by extracting the at least one emotion feature from the digital representation; and processing the digital representation with the command processor by extracting the command from the digital representation, wherein the processing the digital representation with the emotion processor and the processing the digital representation with the command processor are performed in parallel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system comprising:
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a command processor;
the command processor being configured to receive a digital representation of a natural utterance and process the digital representation of the natural utterance by extracting a command from the digital representation; andan emotion processor, the emotion processor being configured to process the digital representation of the natural utterance by extracting an emotion feature from the digital representation, wherein the system is configured such that the processing by the command processor and the processing by the emotion processor are performed in parallel. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising:
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a command processor having one or more first sequences of instructions which, when executed by the command processor, cause the command processor to process a digital representation of a natural utterance by extracting a command from the digital representation; an emotion processor having one or more second sequences of instructions which, when executed by the emotion processor, cause the emotion processor to process the digital representation of the natural utterance by extracting an emotion feature from the digital representation, wherein the one or more first sequences of instructions and the one or more second sequences of instructions are executed in parallel.
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