METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VOICE ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA INTERACTIVE WEBSITE

• US 20160283193A1
• Filed: 06/09/2016
• Published: 09/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Lin, Yu
• Granted Patent: US 10,936,280 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/14 Use of phonemic categorisation or speech recognition prior to speaker recognition or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces

Abstract

Compiling selectable human computer interaction modes for at least one link on the multimedia interactive website, where the selectable human computer interaction modes at least include: a voice mode and a non-voice mode; monitoring a link to be accessed that is selected on the multimedia interactive website by a user, and identifying a human computer interaction mode that is selected by the user for the link to be accessed; when it is identified that the user selects the voice mode, jumping to a page used for guiding a user to provide a voice, guiding the user to provide a voice on the page, and acquiring voice data provided on the page by the user; and determining whether the voice data satisfies a set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed, and if yes, providing information corresponding to the link to be accessed.

Claims

1. A method for voice access to a multimedia interactive website, wherein the multimedia interactive website has a human computer interaction function, and the method comprises:

compiling selectable human computer interaction modes for at least one link on the multimedia interactive website, wherein the selectable human computer interaction modes at least comprise;

a voice mode and a non-voice mode;

monitoring a link to be accessed that is selected on the multimedia interactive website by a user, and identifying a human computer interaction mode that is selected by the user for the link to be accessed;

when it is identified that the user selects the voice mode, jumping to a page used for guiding a user to provide a voice, guiding the user to provide a voice on the page, and acquiring voice data provided on the page by the user; and

determining whether the voice data satisfies a set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed, and if yes, providing information corresponding to the link to be accessed.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the jumping to a page used for guiding a user to provide a voice comprises:

displaying, in the form of an animation, a new page that is associated with the link to be accessed and is used for guiding a user to provide a voice, wherein the page comprises guiding information for guiding a user to provide a voice; and

the guiding the user to provide a voice on the page comprises;

guiding, by using the guiding information in the page, the user to provide the voice on the page.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the determining whether the voice data satisfies a set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed comprises:

extracting a voice spectrum from the voice data, wherein the voice spectrum is formed of a left channel and a right channel;

identifying, according to pitch fluctuations of the voice in the left channel or in the right channel in the voice spectrum, the quantity of characters associated with the voice spectrum; and

determining whether the quantity of characters is the quantity of characters required by the link to be accessed,

and if yes, determining that the voice data satisfies the set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed, or

if not, determining that the voice data does not satisfy the set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein,

the voice mode is implemented by using a prompt button used for indicating a microphone;

the non-voice mode is implemented by using a prompt button used for indicating no microphone.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the link on the multimedia interactive website is compiled by using Flash;

and

the voice data is acquired by using a sound application interface SoundMixer API of the scripting language ActionScript in Flash.

6. An apparatus for voice access to a multimedia interactive website, wherein the multimedia interactive website has a human computer interaction function and the apparatus is applied to a client of a multimedia website, comprising a memory and a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the memory stores a display unit, a monitoring unit, an identification unit, a guiding unit and a determination unit, when being executed by the processor,

the display unit displays the multimedia interactive website, wherein at least one link on the multimedia interactive website is compiled with selectable human computer interaction modes, and the selectable human computer interaction modes at least comprise:

a voice mode and a non-voice mode;

the monitoring unit monitors a link to be accessed that is selected on the multimedia interactive website by a user;

the identification unit identifies a human computer interaction mode that is selected by the user for the link to be accessed;

the guiding unit;

when the identification unit identifies that the user selects the voice mode, jumps to a page used for guiding a user to provide a voice, guides the user to provide a voice on the page, and acquires voice data provided on the page by the user; and

the determination unit determines whether the voice data satisfies a set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed, and if yes, provides information corresponding to the link to be accessed.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the jumping to a page used for guiding a user to provide a voice comprises:

displaying, in the form of an animation, a new page that is associated with the link to be accessed and is used for guiding a user to provide a voice, wherein the page comprises guiding information for guiding a user to provide a voice; and

the guiding the user to provide a voice on the page comprises;

guiding, by using the guiding information in the new page, the user to provide the voice on the page.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the determining whether the voice data satisfies a set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed comprises:

extracting a voice spectrum from the voice data, wherein the voice spectrum is formed of a left channel and a right channel;

identifying, according to pitch fluctuations of the voice in the left channel or in the right channel in the voice spectrum, the quantity of characters associated with the voice spectrum; and

determining whether the quantity of characters is the quantity of characters required by the link to be accessed,

and if yes, determining that the voice data satisfies the set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed, or

if not, determining that the voice data does not satisfy the set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the voice mode is implemented by using a prompt button used for indicating a microphone;

the non-voice mode is implemented by using a prompt button used for indicating no microphone.

10. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the link on the multimedia interactive website is compiled by using Flash;

and

the voice data is acquired by using a sound application interface SoundMixer API of the scripting language ActionScript in Flash.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for voice access to a multimedia interactive website, comprising instructions stored thereon, that when executed on a processor, perform the steps of:

compiling selectable human computer interaction modes for at least one link on the multimedia interactive website, wherein the selectable human computer interaction modes at least comprise;

a voice mode and a non-voice mode;

monitoring a link to be accessed that is selected on the multimedia interactive website by a user, and identifying a human computer interaction mode that is selected by the user for the link to be accessed;

when it is identified that the user selects the voice mode, jumping to a page used for guiding a user to provide a voice, guiding the user to provide a voice on the page, and acquiring voice data provided on the page by the user; and

determining whether the voice data satisfies a set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed, and if yes, providing information corresponding to the link to be accessed.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 11, wherein when executed on the processor, the instructions are further to perform the steps of:

displaying, in the form of an animation, a new page that is associated with the link to be accessed and is used for guiding a user to provide a voice, wherein the page comprises guiding information for guiding a user to provide a voice; and

the guiding the user to provide a voice on the page comprises;

guiding, by using the guiding information in the page, the user to provide the voice on the page.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 11, wherein when executed on the processor, the instructions are further to perform the steps of:

extracting a voice spectrum from the voice data, wherein the voice spectrum is formed of a left channel and a right channel;

identifying, according to pitch fluctuations of the voice in the left channel or in the right channel in the voice spectrum, the quantity of characters associated with the voice spectrum; and

determining whether the quantity of characters is the quantity of characters required by the link to be accessed,

and if yes, determining that the voice data satisfies the set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed, or

if not, determining that the voice data does not satisfy the set requirement for triggering the link to be accessed.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 11, wherein,

the voice mode is implemented by using a prompt button used for indicating a microphone;

the non-voice mode is implemented by using a prompt button used for indicating no microphone.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 11, wherein the link on the multimedia interactive website is compiled by using Flash;

and

the voice data is acquired by using a sound application interface SoundMixer API of the scripting language ActionScript in Flash.