Voice Assistant Manager for Custom Command Creation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current Voice Assistant technologies do not allow users to create voice commands on their mobile devices to direct operations and receive verbal results from Voice Assistants, limiting their ability to interact verbally with social media followers, especially in hands-free environments.
Innovation Solution
A web-enabled mobile device with voice assistant manager software that receives requests, constructs voice commands, and provides verbal operation results, enhancing interoperability between users, devices, and Voice Assistants, enabling new voice commands for device-level voice assistants like Google Voice for hands-free functions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing Voice Assistant implementations are used, then basic voice command execution is available, but users cannot create custom voice commands or interact verbally with social media followers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a voice command management application as an intermediary layer between the user and the device-level voice assistant. This intermediary enables users to create, manage, and customize voice commands without modifying the underlying voice assistant system, thereby enhancing adaptability while maintaining system simplicity.
2Productivity
If Voice Assistants perform tasks based on voice commands, then task automation is achieved, but users cannot receive verbal feedback or communicate verbally with followers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the voice command management application receives operation results from the device-level voice assistant and converts them into verbal form through text-to-speech synthesis. This allows users to receive verbal feedback about task completion status and enables two-way verbal communication with social media followers, preventing loss of verbal information.
3Ease of operation
If users manually operate mobile devices for social media tasks, then precise control is achieved, but hands-free operation is not possible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables users to pre-configure voice commands for common social media operations such as posting updates, liking content, and commenting. Once configured, these commands can be executed hands-free during activities like driving or exercising, significantly reducing the time required for repeated operations while maintaining ease of use.
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AI summary
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a web-enabled mobile device operating voice assistant manager software configured and programmed to receive a request for a web-enabled operation, construct a voice command configured to implement the operation using a device-level voice assistant, and provide a voice indication of the operation result when the voice assistant is activated with the constructed voice command. In an illustrative example, the requested operation may be user designated in a web-enabled device visual interface. The operation may be an action, including, for example, user actions recorded from the visual interface, including text selection, form input, taps, or clicks, permitting construction of a voice command configured to implement the actions. In some examples, the operation may be a data retrieval operation providing a result vocalized to the user through the web-enabled device. Various examples may advantageously provide improved interoperability and enhanced ease of access between users, the user's web-enabled devices, software applications operating on the user's web-enabled devices, and various diverse device-level voice assistant implementations.