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Method and apparatus utilizing voice input to resolve ambiguous manually entered text input

  • US 7,720,682 B2
  • Filed: 02/07/2006
  • Issued: 05/18/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/04/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A digital data processing device programmed to perform operations of resolving ambiguous user input received via manually operated text entry tool, the operations comprising:

  • via manually operated text entry tool, receiving hand entered user input representing a user-intended text object, where the user input is ambiguous because the user input as received represents multiple different text combinations;

    independent of any other user input, interpreting the received user input against a text vocabulary to produce multiple interpretation candidates corresponding to the user-intended text object, the candidates occurring in one or more of the following types;

    (1) a word of which the user input forms one of;

    a root, stem, syllable, affix, (2) a phrase of which the user input forms a word;

    (3) a word represented by the user input;

    presenting results of the interpreting operation for viewing by the user, said results including a list of said candidates corresponding to the user-intended text object;

    responsive to the device receiving spoken user input, performing speech recognition of the spoken user input;

    performing one or more actions of a group of actions including;

    responsive to the recognized speech comprising an utterance specifying one of the candidates, visibly providing a text output comprising the specified candidate.

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