Dynamic Guidance Generation for Voice Dialog Systems

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users unfamiliar with voice-activated processing services face difficulties in using dialog processing devices, and pre-installing comprehensive guidance information is costly.

Innovation Solution

An information-processing device that acquires input data from a user terminal and response data from dialog processing devices, generates guidance information based on the input and response data, and outputs it to the user terminal, including determining the type of data and generating information based on error responses or user interactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If comprehensive guidance information is pre-installed into the dialog processing device, then user ease of operation is improved, but device complexity and cost increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating guidance information before the user needs it. The generation unit creates guidance information in advance based on analyzed input data and response data patterns, so that when a user encounters difficulty, the guidance is already prepared and can be immediately presented without requiring pre-installation of comprehensive guidance databases.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The dialog processing device serves itself by automatically generating and providing guidance information without external intervention. The system monitors its own operation through input data and response data, analyzes patterns, and generates appropriate guidance information autonomously, eliminating the need for manual pre-installation of comprehensive guidance databases.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If comprehensive guidance information is pre-installed into the dialog processing device, then user ease of operation is improved, but cost increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidcost
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating guidance information before the user needs it. The generation unit creates guidance information in advance based on analyzed input data and response data patterns, so that when a user encounters difficulty, the guidance is already prepared without requiring pre-installation of comprehensive guidance databases, thereby reducing costs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The dialog processing device serves itself by automatically generating and providing guidance information without external intervention. The system monitors its own operation through input data and response data, analyzes patterns, and generates appropriate guidance information autonomously, eliminating the need for manual pre-installation of comprehensive guidance databases and significantly reducing costs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Quantity of substance

If guidance information is generated dynamically based on input and response data, then cost is reduced, but response time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovecostVSAvoidresponse time
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of input data and response data patterns in advance, storing analyzed results that can be quickly referenced when generating guidance information. This preliminary processing reduces the computational burden during actual guidance generation, thereby reducing response time while maintaining cost effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from analyzed input data and response data patterns to efficiently generate guidance information. By continuously learning from actual usage patterns and storing this information for future reference, the system can rapidly generate appropriate guidance without significant time delay, balancing cost reduction with acceptable response time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11755652B2Information-processing device and information-processing method
Publication Date: 2023.09.12 NTT DOCOMO INC
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AI summary

An information-processing device including an acquisition unit that acquires input data corresponding to spoken words input to a user terminal, and acquired response data output from a dialog processing device that performs processing according to the input data. A generation unit generates guidance information on how to use the dialog processing device based on the input data and the response data. An output unit outputs the guidance information generated by the generation unit to the user terminal.