Synchronized Audiovisual Response System for Voice Queries
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current voice-enabled devices struggle to provide an interactive and accurate response to user queries, especially when these queries relate to visual content, as they lack the ability to synchronize audio and visual information effectively, leading to incomplete or misinterpreted user requests.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates a dynamic audiovisual presentation in response to user queries, using a service provider system that processes both spoken commands and visual content data to create a synchronized audio and visual experience, allowing users to interact with item details through voice or touchscreen inputs, and enabling actions like purchasing items directly from the presentation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If voice-enabled devices provide audio responses to user queries, then user interaction convenience is improved, but accuracy and completeness of information delivery deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines audio and visual response channels into a unified presentation system. The voice-enabled device simultaneously generates audio responses and displays corresponding visual content (images, text, graphics) to deliver comprehensive information. This merging of sensory channels allows the device to maintain conversational ease while compensating for the information limitations of speech alone through synchronized visual supplementation.
2Device complexity
If voice-enabled devices process only spoken commands, then device complexity is reduced, but ability to interpret visual content deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a multi-functional response system that handles both audio and visual output through a single integrated architecture. The voice-enabled device processes spoken commands and generates unified presentations that incorporate multiple media types (audio speech, displayed images, text, and graphics). This universal approach allows the device to interpret visual content accurately while maintaining manageable complexity through consolidated processing logic rather than separate specialized systems.
3Loss of information
If voice-enabled devices provide detailed information, then information completeness is improved, but user attention and comprehension deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments detailed information into distinct visual and audio components that are synchronized and presented in an organized manner. Rather than delivering a continuous stream of detailed verbal information that may overwhelm the user, the system divides content into discrete elements (visual displays with images and text, audio explanations) that can be processed separately but are coordinated together. This segmentation allows complete information delivery while improving user comprehension through structured presentation.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are disclosed related to presenting an interactive audiovisual presentation that provides a user with information regarding individual items matching a user's search request or other request that results in a set of items. The audiovisual content may be generated to include a summary of a subset of item attributes associated with the individual items, and may include both an audio summary and visual content that are presented in synchronization with each other based on markup information in a presentation file.