Voice Interaction System Demographic Personalization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current voice interaction systems lack personalization and flexibility, often requiring explicit user identification or a one-size-fits-all approach, failing to adapt interactions based on individual user characteristics.

Innovation Solution

A voice interaction system that analyzes utterances to identify demographic attributes such as age, gender, ethnicity, education level, emotional state, and health status, and selects personalized responses based on these characteristics, potentially incorporating supplementary data for enhanced personalization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a one-size-fits-all approach is used in voice interaction systems, then system simplicity is maintained, but user experience personalization is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experience personalizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically identifies user demographic characteristics by analyzing voice utterances without requiring explicit user input or manual configuration. The voice interaction system self-determines user attributes such as age, gender, and emotional state through automated speech analysis, enabling personalization without user intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes its behavioral parameters dynamically based on identified user demographic characteristics. By analyzing voice parameters and adjusting response behavior according to inferred user attributes, the system adapts its interaction style to match the user's demographic profile, achieving personalization through parameter modification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If explicit identification procedures are required for customization, then system flexibility is improved, but user interaction complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoiduser interaction simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic user identification and demographic characterization through voice analysis without requiring users to explicitly provide identification information. The system self-determines user characteristics by analyzing speech patterns, eliminating the need for manual user input while maintaining customization capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces explicit mechanical identification procedures with automated acoustic analysis. Instead of requiring users to manually identify themselves through forms or authentication processes, the system uses voice recognition and speech analysis to automatically infer demographic characteristics, substituting a more complex mechanical identification process with an automated acoustic one.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Ease of operation

If automated voice analysis is used to identify demographic characteristics, then personalization is achieved without explicit user input, but measurement precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic personalizationVSAvoiddemographic characteristic accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses feedback from voice analysis to continuously refine its understanding of user demographic characteristics. By analyzing multiple voice utterances and comparing results against established demographic models, the system iteratively improves the accuracy of its demographic characterization, using feedback loops to enhance measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS7949526B2Voice aware demographic personalization
Publication Date: 2011.05.24 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

A voice interaction system is configured to analyze an utterance and identify inherent attributes that are indicative of a demographic characteristic of the system user that spoke the utterance. The system then selects and presents a personalized response to the user, the response being selected based at least in part on the identified demographic characteristic. In one embodiment, the demographic characteristic is one or more of the caller's age, gender, ethnicity, education level, emotional state, health status and geographic group. In another embodiment, the selection of the response is further based on consideration of corroborative caller data.