Voice Graphical Interface for Analyst Task Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Analysts face inefficiencies and errors in completing tasks such as document retrieval, information retrieval, complex numerical computations, and data visualization due to the lack of standardized and efficient methods, requiring significant time and multiple steps, and current tools do not allow for audio input and visual output interactions.
Innovation Solution
A voice user interface (VUI) system that integrates with a graphical user interface (GUI), enabling analysts to perform tasks through voice commands, providing audio and visual outputs, and offering help, rationale, and suggestion functionalities to streamline complex analytical workflows.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If analysts use traditional methods for document retrieval, information retrieval, numerical computation, and data visualization, then task completion is possible, but the process requires significant time and multiple steps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical operations (typing, clicking, navigating through multiple interfaces) with a voice-based natural language interface. Analysts can perform document retrieval, information extraction, numerical computations, and data visualization tasks by speaking natural language commands, eliminating the need for manual navigation through complex software interfaces and significantly reducing task completion time
Solution Approach 2:
The voice assistant system is designed to perform multiple analytical functions through a single unified interface. It can retrieve documents, extract information, perform numerical computations, create visualizations, and provide recommendations all through voice commands, consolidating what would traditionally require multiple separate tools and processes into one multi-functional system
2Reliability
If analysts manually complete analytical tasks using current tools, then tasks can be performed, but the process is error-prone and lacks standardization
Solution Approach 1:
The voice assistant system performs analytical tasks autonomously based on voice commands without requiring manual intervention at each step. The system independently retrieves documents, extracts information, performs computations, and generates visualizations, reducing human error and ensuring consistent application of analytical methods across different tasks and users
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides continuous feedback to analysts during the analytical process, confirming task completion, presenting results for verification, and offering recommendations. This feedback mechanism ensures accuracy by allowing analysts to review and correct system output, while the system learns from interactions to improve reliability over time
3Ease of operation
If a voice user interface system is implemented, then natural and efficient interaction is enabled, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a natural language processing intermediary layer that translates spoken language into structured commands and queries. This intermediary handles the complexity of voice recognition, intent detection, and command translation, shielding users from underlying system complexity while enabling natural interaction. The intermediary acts as a mediator between the user's natural speech and the technical systems performing analytical tasks
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for voice and graphical user interfaces. One of the methods includes receiving an audio input, analyzing the audio input to determine a requested task, determining response data in response to the requested task, determining at least a first part of the response data to be presented as an audio output and at least a second part of the response data to be presented as a visual output, forwarding the first part of the response data to an audio output for presentation to a user, forwarding the second part of the response data to a visual output for presentation to a user; and forwarding to at least one of the audio output and the visual output data describing sources and/or assumptions used to construct the response data.