Virtual Social Scenario Speech Playback Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for playing back speech messages in social platforms require users to enter a message processing interface, making the operation cumbersome and less convenient, especially for messages with strong interactive attributes.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that display a virtual social scenario where a speech message playback control is shown at a message prompt position, allowing users to play back speech messages directly within the scenario without needing to access the message processing interface, by using a terminal with processing circuitry to manage virtual figures and social interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users click/tap the unread message prompt to process speech messages on the message processing interface, then the speech message can be played back, but the operation becomes cumbersome and less convenient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent places a speech message playback control directly on the unread message prompt in the message list interface, allowing users to play back speech messages before entering the message processing interface. This preliminary action eliminates the need to navigate to the message processing interface just to play back a speech message, thereby reducing operation steps and time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary playback control element that mediates between the unread message prompt and the speech message content. This playback control acts as a bridge, enabling direct speech message playback from the message list interface without requiring full entry into the message processing interface, thus improving operational convenience and reducing time loss.
2Loss of information
If users enter the message processing interface to view speech messages, then the specific type of unread message can be learned, but the operation is cumbersome for socially interactive messages
Solution Approach 1:
The playback control is positioned on the unread message prompt, allowing users to perform the playback action preliminarily before entering the message processing interface. This enables users to obtain speech message information (audio playback) without the cumbersome step of entering the message processing interface, thus reducing information loss while improving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The unread message prompt itself is enhanced with embedded playback functionality, allowing the message prompt to serve its own playback function without requiring external intervention or navigation to the message processing interface. This self-service approach enables direct speech message playback from the message list, reducing operation complexity while maintaining information accessibility.
3Ease of operation
If the speech message playback control is displayed in the virtual social scenario, then the playback operation is simplified, but the interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the speech message playback control with the existing virtual social scenario interface elements. By integrating the playback control into the message prompt position within the virtual social scenario, the system combines multiple functions (message indication, speech playback, and social interaction) into a unified interface, simplifying operations without significantly increasing perceived interface complexity.
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AI summary
A method of speech message playback includes displaying a virtual social scenario including a first virtual figure associated with a first social account. The first social account of the first virtual figure performs social interaction with at least another social account in the virtual social scenario. The method includes displaying, when one or more social messages transmitted by a second social account are received and the one or more social messages include a speech message, a speech message playback control at a message prompt position of a second virtual figure associated with the second social account in the virtual social scenario. The method also includes playing back, in response to a first trigger operation on the speech message playback control, the speech message in the virtual social scenario without involving a message processing interface listing the one or more social messages received from the second social account.