Voice Input Device Dynamic Output Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Electronic devices that support voice input interfaces struggle to provide content that resonates emotionally with users, as they deliver information at a uniform speed and tone, failing to consider nuances in user speech, leading to inappropriate content delivery based on user conditions.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with an audio input module, a processor, and an audio output module that analyzes speech features such as rate, volume, and keywords to determine an output scheme for content, adjusting volume, speed, and information amount based on user input to match user conditions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the electronic device provides content with uniform speed and preset volume, then the device operation is simple, but the content delivery is not emotionally engaging and does not match user conditions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery adaptabilityVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic adjustment of content output parameters (speed, volume, information amount) based on real-time analysis of user speech characteristics. The processor continuously monitors speech rate, volume, and keywords, then dynamically modifies the output scheme to match user emotional state and condition, transforming static uniform delivery into adaptive dynamic delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes multiple output parameters simultaneously based on speech analysis results. When speech rate is fast, the system increases information amount and adjusts speed; when volume is high, it modifies volume levels; when keywords indicate emotional states, it adjusts the overall output scheme. This multi-parameter adjustment resolves the contradiction by making content delivery adaptable without requiring complete system redesign.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If the electronic device analyzes speech features to determine output scheme, then content delivery becomes personalized and emotionally engaging, but the processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery adaptabilityVSAvoidspeech analysis complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential speech features needed for emotional and contextual analysis: speech rate, volume, and specific keywords. By selecting and analyzing only these critical parameters rather than processing the entire speech signal in detail, the system achieves personalized content delivery while keeping processing complexity manageable through focused feature extraction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediate processing layer that analyzes speech features and translates them into output scheme adjustments. This intermediary layer (the processor analyzing speech rate, volume, and keywords) bridges the gap between raw user input and content delivery, making the complex speech-to-output mapping more manageable by breaking it into distinct analysis and adjustment stages.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If the electronic device adjusts output parameters based on user speech, then user experience is enhanced, but the device requires more complex processing capabilities

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experience qualityVSAvoidprocessing capability requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-adjustment of output parameters based on automatic speech analysis. The processor autonomously monitors user speech characteristics and modifies content delivery parameters without requiring manual user control or complex external processing. This self-service capability enhances user experience while keeping the processing architecture relatively simple by eliminating the need for manual intervention interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP3335188B1Method and electronic device for providing content
Publication Date: 2019.11.06 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device and a method are provided. The electronic device includes an audio input module configured to receive a speech of a user as a voice input, an audio output module configured to output content corresponding to the voice input, and a processor configured to determine an output scheme of the content based on at least one of a speech rate of the speech, a volume of the speech, and a keyword included in the speech, which is obtained from an analysis of the voice input.