Using a WIKI editor to create speech-enabled applications

• US 7,890,333 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2007
• Issued: 02/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Moore, Victor S., Nusbickel, Wendi L., Da Palma, William V.
• Primary Examiner(s): AZAD, ABUL K
• Application Number:
  US11/766,002
• Publication Number:
  US 20080319762A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,336 Days
• Field of Search: 704/270, 704/270.1
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/32 Multiple recognisers used in sequence or in parallel; Score combination systems therefor, e.g. voting systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

The present invention discloses a system and a method for creating and editing speech-enabled WIKIs. A WIKI editor can be served to client-side Web browsers so that end-users can utilize WIKI editor functions, which include functions to create and edit speech-enabled WIKI applications. A WIKI server can serve speech-enabled WIKI applications created via the WIKI editor. Each of the speech-enabled WIKI applications can include a link to at least one speech processing engine located in a speech processing system remote from the WIKI server. The speech processing engine can provide a speech processing capability for the speech-enabled WIKI application when served by the WIKI server. In one embodiment, the speech-enabled applications can include an introspection document, an entry collection of documents, and a resource collection of documents in accordance with standards specified by an ATOM PUBLISHING PROTOCOL (APP).

Claims

1. A system for creating and editing speech-enabled WIKIs comprising:

a WIKI editor configured to be served to client-side Web browsers, wherein said WIKI editor is configured to permit users to create and edit speech-enabled WIKI applications; and

a WIKI server configured to serve speech-enabled WIKI applications created via the WIKI editor, wherein each of the speech-enabled WIKI applications include a link to at least one speech processing engine located in a speech processing system remote from the WIKI server, said speech processing engine providing a speech processing capability for the speech-enabled WIKI application when served by the WIKI server.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of said speech-enabled WIKI applications comprise a set of linked documents including an introspection document, an entry collection of documents, and a resource collection of documents, and wherein one of the documents in the resource collection is a speech resource document, and wherein the speech processing engine corresponds to the speech resource document and is activated responsive to details contained within the speech resource document.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the WIKI editor is configured to permit end-users to introspect, customize, replace, add, re-order, and remove entries and resources in the collections.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the speech-enabled applications is written in an ATOM PUBLISHING PROTOCOL (APP) compliant format, and wherein each of the speech-enabled applications communicates with the speech processing engine using a set of RESTful commands, wherein said set of RESTful commands comprises an HTTP GET command, an HTTP POST command, an HTTP PUT command, and an HTTP DELETE command.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a syntax transformer configured to transform WIKI syntax entered via the WIKI editor into a voice markup language, wherein speech-enabled applications served by the WIKI server are formatted in the voice markup language.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the syntax transformer is configured to transform normal WIKI syntax into the voice markup language in accordance with at least one configurable style sheet.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the syntax transformer is configured to transform enhanced WIKI syntax extended for voice into the voice markup language.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the syntax transformer is configured to transform normal WIKI syntax into VoiceXML at runtime.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said server-side WIKI editor further comprises:

a graphical software development tool consisting of a flow builder that includes a canvas upon which dialog components from a toolbox are able to be arranged to visually create the speech-enabled WIKI applications.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the server-side WIKI editor further comprises a preview option for the speech-enabled application, wherein a selection of the preview option audibly renders a current one of the speech-enabled applications to a user of one of the client-side Web browsers, whereby the user is able to test speech-enabled applications developed using the WIKI editor by selecting the preview option.

11. A method for creating and editing speech-enabled WIKIs comprising:

serving a WIKI editor to client-side Web browsers, wherein said WIKI editor permits users to create and edit speech-enabled WIKI applications; and

a WIKI server serving speech-enabled WIKI applications created via the WIKI editor, wherein each of the speech-enabled WIKI applications include a link to at least one speech processing engine located in a speech processing system remote from the WIKI server, said speech processing engine providing a speech processing capability for the speech-enabled WIKI application when served by the WIKI server.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein each of said speech-enabled WIKI applications comprise a set of linked documents including an introspection document, an entry collection of documents, and a resource collection of documents, and wherein one of the documents in the resource collection is a speech resource document, and wherein the speech processing engine corresponds to the speech resource document and is activated responsive to details contained within the speech resource document.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the WIKI editor is configured to permit end-users to introspect, customize, replace, add, re-order, and remove entries and resources in the collections.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein each of the speech-enabled applications is written in an ATOM PUBLISHING PROTOCOL (APP) compliant format, and wherein each of the speech-enabled applications communicates with the speech processing engine using a set of RESTful commands, wherein said set of RESTful commands comprises an HTTP GET command, an HTTP POST command, an HTTP PUT command, and an HTTP DELETE command.

15. A non-transitory storage medium comprising a computer program product to cause a system having an information processing capability to perform a set of functions when the system executes the computer program product, wherein execution of the computer program product causes the system to:

serve a WIKI editor to client-side Web browsers, wherein said WIKI editor permits users to create and edit speech-enabled WIKI applications; and

serve, via a WIKI server, speech-enabled WIKI applications created via the WIKI editor, wherein each of the speech-enabled WIKI applications include a link to at least one speech processing engine located in a speech processing system remote from the WIKI server, said speech processing engine providing a speech processing capability for the speech-enabled WIKI application when served by the WIKI server.

16. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 15, wherein each of said speech-enabled WIKI applications comprise a set of linked documents including an introspection document, an entry collection of documents, and a resource collection of documents, and wherein one of the documents in the resource collection is a speech resource document, and wherein the speech processing engine corresponds to the speech resource document and is activated responsive to details contained within the speech resource document.

17. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 15, wherein the WIKI editor is configured to permit end-users to introspect, customize, replace, add, re-order, and remove entries and resources in the collections.

18. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 15, wherein each of the speech-enabled applications is written in an ATOM PUBLISHING PROTOCOL (APP) compliant format, and wherein each of the speech-enabled applications communicates with the speech processing engine using a set of RESTful commands, wherein said set of RESTful commands comprises an HTTP GET command, an HTTP POST command, an HTTP PUT command, and an HTTP DELETE command.