Conference Polling Answer Pre-generation via Verbal Input
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing conference platforms face inefficiencies in handling polling questions, as participants take significant time to think and respond, leading to increased discussion length, resource utilization, and potential interruptions in the natural flow of discussions.
Innovation Solution
The system modifies the user interface for participants by presenting a textual form of a verbal answer provided by an initial respondent and includes a GUI element allowing other participants to provide a non-verbal answer based on the initial response, thereby streamlining the response process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If participants are given time to think and respond to polling questions individually, then response quality is improved, but discussion length and resource utilization increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically generating candidate answers from the initial respondent's verbal input and presenting them to other participants before they need to respond. This pre-prepared answer options eliminate the need for participants to think from scratch, maintaining response quality while reducing the time required for all participants to answer polling questions.
2Ease of operation
If traditional polling methods are used where each participant types or verbally responds individually, then individual input is captured, but the natural flow of discussion is interrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The system prepares candidate answers in advance based on the initial respondent's input, so when other participants select from these pre-generated options, the process is rapid and does not interrupt the discussion flow. The preliminary generation of answer choices enables easy individual input capture without requiring each participant to take significant time to formulate and enter their response.
3Quantity of substance
If multiple participants provide verbal answers sequentially, then all responses are collected, but system resource utilization increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of processing each participant's verbal response through the full speech-to-text conversion and answer generation pipeline, the system creates copies of the initial respondent's generated answer options and presents them to other participants. This copying approach maintains complete response collection while significantly reducing system resource utilization, as participants can quickly select from pre-generated options rather than generating new answers.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for populating answers to polling questions based on initial responses. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided to a set of participants of a conference call. The GUI includes a first portion that presents a polling question to be answered by the set of participants. A detecting is made that a first participant of the set of participants has provided a verbal answer to the polling question. The GUI provided to a second participant of the set of participants is modified to present, in a second portion, a textual form of the verbal answer provided by the first participant and a GUI element that allows the second participant to provide a non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of the GUI element associated with the verbal answer provided by the first participant.