Instant Messaging Audio Menu for Emotional Expression
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional instant messaging is limited to visual representations, lacking the richness of voice inflection and emotions, leading to potential misinterpretations of ideas and emotions, especially in real-time communication.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating an audio menu into instant messaging sessions, allowing users to select and output audio items, such as sounds or quotes, to enhance the communication experience by engaging both auditory and visual senses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional text-based instant messaging is used, then the communication is simple and fast, but the richness of expression and accuracy of emotion conveyance is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines text messaging with audio clip selection in a unified instant messaging interface. Users can send text messages and select from pre-recorded audio clips representing different emotions and voice inflections, merging the simplicity of text-based communication with the expressive richness of audio communication. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining operational simplicity while reducing information loss through emotional expression.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses pre-recorded audio clips that copy and represent various voice inflections and emotional states. Instead of requiring users to generate original audio recordings, the system provides copied audio representations of common emotional expressions that can be selectively applied to text messages, preserving the simplicity of text-based interaction while adding emotional depth.
2Loss of information
If emoticons are used to add richness to text messages, then visual representation of emotions is improved, but other senses (auditory) are ignored
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional visual emoticons to incorporate audio-dimensional expression. By adding audio clips as a new dimension of emotional expression alongside visual text and emoticons, the system enables multi-sensory communication that engages both visual and auditory senses, resolving the contradiction between visual representation and sensory versatility.
3Productivity
If users have limited time to compose messages in real-time instant messaging, then communication speed is maintained, but adequate consideration of message interpretation is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs pre-recorded audio clips that are prepared in advance representing various emotional states and voice inflections. Users can quickly select from these pre-prepared audio options without needing to compose or record audio in real-time, maintaining communication speed while ensuring accurate emotional expression through carefully crafted audio representations.
Data Source
AI summary
Instant messaging with audio is described. In an implementation, a method includes receiving an input during an instant messaging session indicating a selection of at least one of a plurality of audio items from an audio menu. The plurality of audio items is taken from a content item. An output is caused of the selected audio item by one or more of a plurality of computing devices that participates in the instant messaging session.