Interleaving voice commands for electronic meetings

• US 9,087,516 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2012
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Crawley, John A., Howman, Ruadhri J., O'Connor, John, Wallace, Mark E., Wolf, Tracee L.
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, HUYEN X
• Application Number:
  US13/680,644
• Publication Number:
  US 20140142950A1
• Time in Patent Office: 974 Days
• Field of Search: 704/231, 704/233, 704/235, 704/270, 704/275, 704/270.1, 704/201, 348/14.08, 370/352
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission

Abstract

A method, computer program product, and system for identifying collaborators is described. A command precursor associated with delivery of a voice command associated with an electronic meeting is received. An audio signal including the voice command is received. A portion of the audio signal is identified as representing the voice command, based upon, at least in part, receiving the command precursor. The voice command is interpreted. The interpreted voice command is caused to be executed.

Claims

1. A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving a command precursor associated with delivery of a voice command associated with an electronic meeting;

receiving an audio signal including the voice command;

identifying a portion of the audio signal as representing the voice command based upon, at least in part, receiving the command precursor;

interpreting the voice command;

causing execution of the interpreted voice command, including translating a portion of the audio signal following the voice command into text; and

removing audio information associated with the voice command from the audio signal before the audio signal is translated into text to be provided to one or more participants in the electronic meeting.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the received command precursor originates from a muted participant, wherein the participant is muted non-locally.

3. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the command precursor is an audio signal.

4. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the command precursor is a keypad input.

5. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the command precursor is a customized precursor.

6. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the audio signal including the voice command originates at a mobile computing device.

7. A computer system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memory architectures coupled with the one or more processors;

wherein the one or more processors are configured to;

receive a command precursor associated with delivery of a voice command associated with an electronic meeting;

receive an audio signal including the voice command;

identify a portion of the audio signal as representing the voice command based upon, at least in part, receiving the command precursor;

interpret the voice command;

cause execution of the interpreted voice command, including translating a portion of the audio signal following the voice command into text; and

remove audio information associated with the voice command from the audio signal before the audio signal is translated into text to be provided to one or more participants in the electronic meeting.

8. The computer system of claim 7 wherein the received command precursor originates from a muted participant, wherein the participant is muted non-locally.

9. The computer system of claim 7 wherein the command precursor is an audio signal.

10. The computer system of claim 7 wherein the command precursor is a keypad input.

11. The computer system of claim 7 wherein the command precursor is a customized precursor.

12. The computer system of claim 7 wherein the audio signal including the voice command originates at a mobile computing device.