Voice Input Button Segmentation for Text and Symbol Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern devices without physical keyboards face challenges in efficiently and accurately entering text and symbols, as existing voice input technologies cannot differentiate between text and symbol input, requiring users to toggle through menus, making the process time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
A method is implemented where a voice input button on a device's screen triggers a menu with content input options for text and symbol input, allowing users to select an option and convert voice input into the corresponding input type for an underlying application, enabling seamless switching between input modes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If voice input technology is used on devices without physical keyboards, then text input capability is improved, but the ability to differentiate between text and symbol input is lost, requiring users to toggle through menus
Solution Approach 1:
The voice input button is segmented into multiple functional areas: a first region for text input and a second region for symbol input. When users press different regions of the same button, the system provides different input modes, eliminating the need to toggle through menus while maintaining clear differentiation between text and symbol input.
2Measurement precision
If users toggle through menus to switch between text and symbol input modes, then input type differentiation is achieved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by providing multiple content input options within the expanded voice input menu before the user actually provides voice input. Users can select their desired input type (text or symbol) from the expanded menu in advance, so when they provide voice input, the system already knows which input type to convert it to, eliminating the need for subsequent menu toggling and reducing time consumption.
3Device complexity
If a single voice input button is used, then device simplicity is maintained, but multiple content input options cannot be accessed
Solution Approach 1:
The voice input button is designed with multi-functionality, serving as both a simple single-button interface and a gateway to multiple content input options. When pressed, it expands to reveal different content input options (text, symbol, etc.), allowing a single button to provide access to multiple functions without increasing the physical number of buttons on the device.
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AI summary
One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting user activation input provided to a voice input button displayed on a display screen of an information handling device, wherein the user activation input triggers a voice input mode; expanding, responsive to the detecting, a voice input menu, wherein the voice input menu comprises at least two content input options; identifying a selection of one of the at least two content input options; receiving, after the identifying, voice input; converting the voice input into another input type, wherein the another input type is designated by the selection; and providing, based on the converting, input associated with the another input type into an underlying application. Other aspects are described and claimed.