Digital Assistant Task Response Logic
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Solution Overview
Problem
Intelligent automated assistants face inefficiencies in responding to natural language inputs, often requiring unnecessary processing resources and time, leading to inappropriate responses and increased power usage.
Innovation Solution
A method where a digital assistant determines if a task is of a predetermined type and checks if specific criteria are met, allowing for non-verbal audio responses to be provided without verbal responses when criteria are satisfied, optimizing resource usage and response efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the digital assistant always provides both sound and verbal responses to all tasks, then the user receives complete information, but the processing resources and time are wasted on unnecessary responses
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the response parameters (sound only, sound with verbal response, or no sound) based on the task type and criteria, optimizing the balance between information completeness and response efficiency for different situations
2Reliability
If the digital assistant processes all tasks with full verification and response generation, then the response quality is maintained, but the power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs partial processing for certain task types by providing only sound responses without full verbal processing, reducing power consumption while maintaining adequate response quality for specific task categories
3Loss of information
If the digital assistant provides detailed verbal responses for all tasks, then the information completeness is ensured, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The response system is segmented into different modes (sound only, sound with verbal response) based on task type, reducing the processing complexity for certain tasks while maintaining information completeness where needed
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AI summary
An example process includes: receiving a first natural language input; initiating, by a digital assistant operating on the electronic device, a first task based on the first natural language input; determining whether the first task is of a predetermined type; and in accordance with a determination that the first task is of a predetermined type: determining whether one or more criteria are satisfied; and providing a response to the first natural language input, where providing the response includes: in accordance with a determination that the one or more criteria are not satisfied, outputting a first sound indicative of the initiated first task and a first verbal response indicative of the initiated first task; and in accordance with a determination that the one or more criteria are satisfied, outputting the first sound without outputting the first verbal response.