Verbal Conference Polling Without Discussion Interruption
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing conference call platforms require participants to pause discussions to input and display polling questions, disrupting the flow and increasing discussion length, leading to inefficient resource utilization.
Innovation Solution
A conference platform enables participants to verbally pose polling questions, which are automatically converted to text and displayed to others, allowing seamless integration without interrupting the discussion flow.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If participants prepare and display polling questions using traditional conference platform tools, then polling functionality is achieved, but the natural flow of discussion is interrupted and call length increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the traditional mechanical interaction of typing and submitting text-based polling questions with a voice-based system. Participants speak their polling questions naturally during the discussion, and the system automatically captures, transcribes, and processes the audio input. This substitution of mechanical text input with acoustic voice input eliminates the need to pause the discussion for question preparation, maintaining natural conversation flow while achieving polling functionality.
2Productivity
If traditional text-based polling question input is used, then polling is achieved, but significant time and system resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically transcribing and processing polling questions as they are spoken, rather than requiring participants to prepare text in advance. The voice-to-text conversion and question formatting occur in real-time during the discussion, eliminating the time-consuming preparation phase while maintaining polling efficiency.
3Loss of time
If participants verbally pose polling questions, then discussion flow is maintained, but automatic transcription and text display functionality is required
Solution Approach 1:
The conference platform is enhanced with multi-functionality by integrating voice capture, audio transcription, text formatting, and real-time display capabilities into a single unified system. This universal approach allows the same platform to handle both traditional conference call functions and the new voice-based polling feature, avoiding the need for separate complex systems while maintaining discussion continuity.
Data Source
AI summary
One or more content streams are obtained from a client device associated with a participant during a conference call. The one or more content streams indicate verbal phrases provided by the participant during the conference call. At least a portion of the one or more content streams are fed as input to a machine learning model. A polling question for polling other participants of the conference call and one or more answer options corresponding to the polling question are determined based on one or more outputs of the machine learning model. The polling question and the one or more answer options are provided for polling the other participants via one or more client devices associated with the other participants.