Enabling voice click in a multimodal page

• US 7,650,284 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2004
• Issued: 01/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: White, Marc, Cross, Charles W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sked; Matthew J
• Application Number:
  US10/992,979
• Publication Number:
  US 20060111906A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,887 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A method, system and apparatus for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page. In accordance with the present invention, a method for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page can include toggling a display of indicia binding selected user interface elements in the multimodal page to corresponding voice logic; and, processing a selection of the selected user interface elements in the multimodal page through different selection modalities. In particular, the toggling step can include toggling a display of both indexing indicia for the selected user interface elements, and also a text display indicating that a voice selection of the selected user interface elements is supported.

Claims

1. A method for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page displayed on a computer in a computing system, the method comprising acts of:

toggling a display of and a hiding of a plurality of different voice modality indicia, each of the different voice modality indicia binding a different selected user interface element in the multimodal page to different corresponding voice logic executable in the computing system to indicate that the user interface element is voice-enabled, wherein each of the different voice modality indicia displays information, that when spoken in combination with at least one voice command, selects the user interface element; and

processing a selection of selected user interface elements in the multimodal page through different selection modalities.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said toggling act comprises toggling a display of and a hiding of both a plurality of different indexing indicia for corresponding selected user interface elements, and also a text display indicating that a voice selection of said corresponding selected user interface elements is supported.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising acts of:

receiving a voice utterance matching a pre-specified toggle grammar; and

,

calling a toggle method in script logic to perform said toggling.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said processing act comprises processing voice clicks for selected user interface elements in the multimodal page through a voice modality.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said processing act further comprises acts of:

receiving a voice utterance matching a pre-specified click grammar; and

calling a click method in script logic to perform said selection of a selected one of said user interface elements.

6. A machine readable storage having a computer program stored thereon, the computer program comprising a set of instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method comprising acts of:

toggling a display of and a hiding of a plurality of different voice modality indicia, each of the different voice modality indicia binding a different selected user interface element in the multimodal page to different corresponding voice logic executable in the computing system to indicate that the user interface element is voice-enabled, wherein each of the different voice modality indicia displays information, that when spoken in combination with at least one voice command, selects the user interface element; and

processing a selection of selected user interface elements in the multimodal page through different selection modalities.

7. The machine readable storage of claim 6, wherein said toggling act comprises toggling a display of and a hiding of both a plurality of different indexing indicia for corresponding selected user interface elements, and also a text display indicating that a voice selection of said corresponding selected user interface elements is supported.

8. The machine readable storage of claim 6, wherein said toggling act further comprises acts of:

receiving a voice utterance matching a pre-specified toggle grammar; and

calling a toggle method in script logic to perform said toggling.

9. The machine readable storage of claim 6, wherein said processing act comprises processing voice clicks for selected user interface elements in the multimodal page through voice modality.

10. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

associating at least one voice modality indicia with a user interface element of a multimodal page displayed on a computer to indicate that selection of the user interface element is voice enabled, wherein the at least one voice modality indicia displays information that, when spoken in combination with at least one voice command by a user of the computer, selects the user interface element.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

hiding, in response to receiving a hide voice command, the at least one voice modality indicia for the user interface element to indicate that selection of the user interface element using a voice modality is disabled.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein associating comprises binding the user interface element to corresponding computer-executable voice logic.