Digital Assistant Output Speed Adjustment for Time Constraints
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional digital assistants fail to dynamically adjust output settings based on user time constraints and cannot mimic natural language conversations, leading to inefficient output delivery and lack of intuitive pause or stall functions.
Innovation Solution
The method involves receiving a user query and an indication of time associated with the query's result, allowing the system to adjust output characteristics such as speed, incorporating pauses or stalls, and summarizing content to accommodate time constraints, thereby enhancing output delivery and mimicking natural language interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the digital assistant provides complete output results, then the information completeness is improved, but the time to deliver output increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the output delivery process into multiple phases: immediate provision of available results followed by progressive updates as additional results become available. This allows the system to deliver partial information quickly while continuing to gather and transmit more complete information over time, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and delivery speed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by providing output results as soon as they are available, rather than waiting for complete processing. This preliminary delivery of partial results reduces the overall time to provide useful information while the system continues processing in the background to gather more complete data.
2Productivity
If the digital assistant maintains steady output speed, then the output delivery is predictable, but the ability to accommodate user time constraints is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic output speed adjustment based on user presence detection and time constraints. The system can accelerate output delivery when users are present and waiting, and slow down or pause when users are absent, making the productivity adaptable to actual user needs and time constraints rather than maintaining a fixed speed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from user presence detection and time constraint analysis to dynamically adjust output delivery characteristics. By monitoring whether users are present and waiting, and analyzing time constraints, the system feedback-adjusts its output speed and pacing to optimize both efficiency and adaptability.
3Productivity
If the digital assistant provides continuous output without pauses, then the output delivery is efficient, but the natural language conversation mimicry is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates periodic pauses and stalls in output delivery that mimic natural human conversation patterns. These periodic interruptions occur at natural breakpoints in the output content, allowing the system to maintain overall efficiency while creating a more natural, conversational interaction experience that ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts output pacing to include natural pauses and variations in delivery speed, rather than maintaining a continuous, uniform output rate. This dynamic pacing mimics human speech patterns while still delivering complete information efficiently, improving the natural language interaction quality without significantly compromising productivity.
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AI summary
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, a query from a user; receiving an indication of a time associated with provision of a result associated with the query; and adjusting a characteristic associated with an audible output based upon the indicated time. Other aspects are described and claimed.