Enabling voice click in a multimodal page

• US 20060111906A1
• Filed: 11/19/2004
• Published: 05/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: White, Marc, Cross, Charles W.
• Granted Patent: US 7,650,284 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/257
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A method, system and apparatus for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page. In accordance with the present invention, a method for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page can include toggling a display of indicia binding selected user interface elements in the multimodal page to corresponding voice logic; and, processing a selection of the selected user interface elements in the multimodal page through different selection modalities. In particular, the toggling step can include toggling a display of both indexing indicia for the selected user interface elements, and also a text display indicating that a voice selection of the selected user interface elements is supported.

Claims

1. A method for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page comprising the steps of:

toggling a display of indicia binding selected user interface elements in the multimodal page to corresponding voice logic; and

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processing a selection of said selected user interface elements in the multimodal page through different selection modalities.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein toggling step comprises the step of toggling a display of both indexing indicia for said selected user interface elements, and also a text display indicating that a voice selection of said selected user interface elements is supported.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said toggling step comprises the steps of:

catching a voice utterance matching a pre-specified toggle grammar; and

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calling a toggle method in script logic to perform said toggling of said display of indicia.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said toggling step comprises the step of performing one of showing and hiding of said indicia binding said selected user interface elements in the multimodal page.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said processing step comprises the step of processing voice clicks for said selected user interface elements in the multimodal page through a voice modality.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said processing step comprises the steps of:

catching a voice utterance matching a pre-specified click grammar; and

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calling a click method in script logic to perform said selection of a selected one of said user interface elements.

7. A system for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page comprising:

script logic comprising both a toggle method programmed to toggle a display of indicia binding selected user interface elements in the multimodal page, and also a click method programmed to process a selection of said selected user interface elements in the multimodal page;

voice logic comprising both code programmed to call said toggle method in said script logic, and also code programmed to call said click method in said script logic; and

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visual markup coupled to said voice logic and script logic, said visual markup comprising attributes defining said selected user interface elements and marking said selected user interface elements for processing by said voice logic.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said selected user interface elements comprises both buttons and hyperlinks.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein said indicia comprises a set of indices each index in said set corresponding to one of said selected user interface elements.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein said indicia further comprises a text display indicating that a voice selection of said selected user interface elements is supported.

11. A machine readable storage having stored thereon a computer program for enabling voice clicks in a multimodal page, the computer program comprising a routine set of instructions which when executed by a machine causes the machine to perform the steps of:

toggling a display of indicia binding selected user interface elements in the multimodal page to corresponding voice logic; and

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processing a selection of said selected user interface elements in the multimodal page through different selection modalities.

12. The machine readable storage of claim 11, wherein toggling step comprises the step of toggling a display of both indexing indicia for said selected user interface elements, and also a text display indicating that a voice selection of said selected user interface elements is supported.

13. The machine readable storage of claim 11, wherein said toggling step comprises the steps of:

catching a voice utterance matching a pre-specified toggle grammar; and

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calling a toggle method in script logic to perform said toggling of said display of indicia.

14. The machine readable storage of claim 11, wherein said toggling step comprises the step of performing one of showing and hiding of said indicia binding said selected user interface elements in the multimodal page.

15. The machine readable storage of claim 11, wherein said processing step comprises the step of processing voice clicks for said selected user interface elements in the multimodal page through a voice modality.

16. The machine readable storage of claim 11, wherein said processing step comprises the steps of:

catching a voice utterance matching a pre-specified click grammar; and

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calling a click method in script logic to perform said selection of a selected one of said user interface elements.