Interleaving voice commands for electronic meetings

• US 9,093,071 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2013
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• 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:
  US14/030,423
• Publication Number:
  US 20140142951A1
• Time in Patent Office: 678 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-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by one or more computing devices, a command precursor associated with delivery of a voice command associated with an electronic meeting;

analyzing, by the one or more computing devices, a fixed amount of voice data received immediately after the command precursor to identify whether the voice data represents the voice command;

receiving, by the one or more computing devices, an audio signal including the voice command;

identifying, by the one or more computing devices, a portion of the audio signal as representing the voice command based upon, at least in part, receiving the command precursor;

interpreting, by the one or more computing devices, the voice command;

causing, by the one or more computing devices, 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-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the received command precursor originates from a muted participant, wherein the participant is muted non-locally.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the command precursor is an audio signal.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the command precursor is a keypad input.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the command precursor is a customized precursor.

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

7. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by one or more computing devices, a command precursor associated with delivery of a voice command associated with an electronic meeting, wherein the command precursor is a customized audio signal;

analyzing, by the one or more computing devices, a fixed amount of voice data received immediately after the command precursor to identify whether the voice data represents the voice command;

receiving, by the one or more computing devices, an audio signal including the voice command;

identifying, by the one or more computing devices, a portion of the audio signal as representing the voice command based upon, at least in part, receiving the command precursor;

interpreting, by the one or more computing devices, the voice command;

causing, by the one or more computing devices, execution of the interpreted voice command, including translating a portion of the audio signal following the voice command into text; and

removing, by the one or more computing devices, 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.