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Dynamically extending the speech prompts of a multimodal application

  • US 8,290,780 B2
  • Filed: 06/24/2009
  • Issued: 10/16/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of dynamically extending the speech prompts of a multimodal application, the method implemented with a prompt generation engine, a module of automated computing machinery operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction with the multimodal application, the modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, wherein the voice mode includes accepting speech input from a user, digitizing the speech, and providing digitized speech to a speech engine, and wherein the non-voice mode includes accepting input from a user through physical user interaction with a user input device for the multimodal device;

  • wherein the multimodal device comprises a module of automated computing machinery for executing the multimodal application and supports execution of a media file player, a module of automated computing machinery for playing media files;

    the method comprising;

    receiving, by the prompt generation engine, a media file having a metadata container;

    retrieving, by the prompt generation engine from the metadata container, a speech prompt related to content stored in the media file for inclusion in the multimodal application; and

    modifying, by the prompt generation engine, the multimodal application to include the speech prompt.

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