Personal digital assistant for generating conversation utterances to a remote listener in response to a quiet selection
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1. A personal digital assistant, comprising:
- (a) a display for providing a conversation representation for an ongoing conversation;
(b) a memory for storing the conversation representation and an associated conversation element, wherein the conversation element has an internal representation of an audible utterance;
(c) a processor, coupled to the display and memory, for generating a control signal; and
, (d) an audio output, coupled to the processor and memory, for providing the audible utterance responsive to the control signal and conversation element.
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Abstract
A user conducts a telephone conversation without speaking. It does this by moving the participant in the public situation to a quiet mode of communication (e.g., keyboard, buttons, touchscreen). All the other participants are allowed to continue using their usual audible technology (e.g., telephones) over the existing telecommunications infrastructure. The quiet user interface transforms the user'"'"'s silent input selections into equivalent audible signals that may be directly transmitted to the other parties in the conversation.
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1. A personal digital assistant, comprising:
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(a) a display for providing a conversation representation for an ongoing conversation;
(b) a memory for storing the conversation representation and an associated conversation element, wherein the conversation element has an internal representation of an audible utterance;
(c) a processor, coupled to the display and memory, for generating a control signal; and
,(d) an audio output, coupled to the processor and memory, for providing the audible utterance responsive to the control signal and conversation element. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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23. A personal digital assistant, comprising:
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(a) display for providing a conversation representation for an ongoing conversation;
(b) a device representing a conversation representation associated with a conversation element;
(c) a memory for storing the conversation element, wherein the conversation element has an internal representation of an audible utterance;
(d) a processor, coupled to the display, mechanical device, and memory, for generating a control signal; and
(e) an audio output, coupled to the processor and memory, for providing an audible utterance responsive to the control signal and conversation element. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52)
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