Method and system to parameterize dialog systems for the purpose of branding

• US 20060100875A1
• Filed: 09/28/2005
• Published: 05/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch Corporation (Robert Bosch GmbH), Volkswagen Of America (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch Corporation (Robert Bosch GmbH), Volkswagen Of America (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Bergmann, Carsten, Mishra, Rohit, Raghunathan, Badri, Schmidt, Hauke, Weng, Fuliang
• Granted Patent: US 7,877,257 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/257
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/295 Named entity recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/227 of the speaker; Human-factor methodology

Abstract

A method and system to parameterize a spoken language dialog system, includes providing a storage area to store at least one parameter value, integrating a subcomponent with at least one module of the spoken language dialog system, and configuring the subcomponent to access the at least one parameter value and to adjust an operation or output of the module based on the at least one parameter value.

Claims

1. A method to parameterize a spoken language dialog system, comprising:

providing a storage area to store at least one parameter value;

integrating a subcomponent with at least one module of the spoken language dialog system; and

configuring the subcomponent to access the at least one parameter value and to adjust an operation or output of the module based on the at least one parameter value.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the subcomponent is integrated with a speech recognition module to adjust a conversion of a digitized acoustic sample into at least one of a sequence of words and a directed graph generated by the speech recognition module.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the subcomponent is integrated with a natural language understanding module to adjust an analysis of at least one of a sequence of words and directed group of word hypothesis for syntactic and semantic structure.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the analysis of at least one of a sequence of words and directed group of word hypothesis for syntactic and semantic structure with respect to a user speaking style.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the subcomponent is integrated with a dialog manager to adjust at least one of an assembly of a command for a device and creation of a response description.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the subcomponent is integrated with a response generator to adjust a translation of a response description into a sequence of at least one of words and acoustic icons.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the translation of the response description into the sequence of at least one of the words and acoustic icons with respect to an amount of response to be provided to a user of the spoken language dialog system.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the translation of the response description into the sequence of the at least one of the words and acoustic icons with respect to a choice of the at least one of the words and acoustic icons.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the subcomponent is integrated with a text-to-speech module to adjust a conversion of a sequence of at least one of words into digitalized acoustic samples.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the conversion of the sequence of words into digitalized acoustic samples with respect to prosody control.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the conversion of the sequence of words into digitalized acoustic samples with respect to a voice characteristic.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

organizing the at least one parameter into at least one profile.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

providing an interface to set at least one of the at least one parameter and the at least one profile.

18. The arrangement of claim 16, wherein the subcomponent is integrated with a speech recognition module to adjust a conversion of a digitized acoustic sample into at least one of a sequence of words and a directed graph generated by the speech recognition module.

19. The arrangement of claim 16, wherein the subcomponent is integrated with a natural language understanding module to adjust an analysis of at least one of a sequence of words and directed group of word hypothesis for syntactic and semantic structure.

20. The arrangement of claim 18, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the analysis of at least one of a sequence of words and directed group of word hypothesis for syntactic and semantic structure with respect to a user speaking style.

21. The arrangement of claim 16, wherein the subcomponent is integrated with a dialog manager to adjust at least one of an assembly of a command for a device and creation of a response description.

22. The arrangement of claim 20, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the at least one of the assembly of the command for the device and the creation of the response description with respect to a dialog style of the spoken dialog system.

23. The arrangement of claim 21, wherein the dialog style includes a relative response length.

24. The arrangement of claim 20, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the at least one of the assembly of the command for the device and the creation of the response description with respect to an intrusiveness level of the spoken dialog system.

25. The arrangement of claim 16, wherein the subcomponent is integrated with a response generator to adjust a translation of a response description into a sequence of at least one of words and acoustic icons.

26. The arrangement of claim 24, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the translation of the response description into the sequence of at least one of the words and acoustic icons with respect to an amount of response to be provide to a user of the spoken dialog system.

27. The arrangement of claim 24, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the translation of the response description into the sequence of the at least one of the words and acoustic icons with respect to a choice of the at least one of the words and acoustic icons.

28. The arrangement of claim 16, wherein the subcomponent is integrated with a text-to-speech module to adjust a conversion of a sequence of at least one of words into digitalized acoustic samples.

29. The arrangement of claim 27, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the conversion of the sequence of words into digitalized acoustic samples with respect to prosody control.

30. The arrangement of claim 27, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the conversion of the sequence of words into digitalized acoustic samples with respect to a voice characteristic.

32. The spoken language dialog system of claim 30, wherein the module is configured to perform an analysis of at least one of a sequence of words and directed group of word hypothesis for syntactic and semantic structure, and the subcomponent arrangement is configured to adjust the analysis with respect to a user speaking style.

33. The spoken language dialog system of claim 30, wherein the module is configured to at least one of assemble a command for a device and create of a response description, and the subcomponent arrangement is configured to adjust the at least one of the assembly of the command for the device and the creation of the response description with respect to one of a dialog style and intrusiveness of the spoken dialog system.

34. The spoken language dialog system of claim 32, wherein the dialog style includes a relative response length.

35. The spoken language dialog system of claim 30, wherein the module is configured to perform a translation of a response description into a sequence of at least one of words and acoustic icons, and the subcomponent arrangement is configured to adjust the translation with respect to one of an amount of response to be provide to a user of the spoken dialog system and a choice of the at least one of the words and acoustic icons.

36. The spoken language dialog system of claim 30, wherein the module is configured to perform a conversion of a sequence of at least one of words into digitalized acoustic samples, and the subcomponent arrangement is configured to adjust the conversion with respect to at least one of prosody control and a voice characteristic.

6. The method of claim 6, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the at least one of the assembly of the command for the device and the creation of the response description with respect to a dialog style of the spoken dialog system.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the dialog style includes a relative response length.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the subcomponent is configured to adjust the at least one of the assembly of the command for the device and the creation of the response description with respect to an intrusiveness level of the spoken dialog system.

17. An arrangement to parameterize a spoken language dialog system, comprising:

a storage area to store at least one parameter value; and

at least one subcomponent integrated with at least one module of the spoken language dialog system to access the at least one parameter value and to adjust an operation or output of the module based on the at least one parameter value.

31. A spoken language dialog system, comprising:

a module to perform a subtask of the spoken dialog system;

a storage area to store at least one parameter value; and

a subcomponent arrangement integrated with the module to access the at least one parameter value and to adjust an operation or output of the module based on the at least one parameter value.