Voice Intent Prompts for Easier Audiovisual Session Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing audiovisual communication systems require complex user navigation to perform operations like muting microphones, recording sessions, or sharing screens, and users may be unaware of the current state of their devices, leading to unintended actions.
Innovation Solution
An audiovisual communication system with network microphone devices that monitor voice input to detect keywords and context parameters, inferring user intent and providing prompts through a graphical user interface to facilitate operations like muting, recording, or sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually navigate through complex interfaces to perform operations like muting microphones, recording sessions, or sharing screens, then the system provides full control and functionality, but the operation complexity and time required increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically monitors voice input, detects keywords, infers user intent, and presents relevant operation prompts without requiring users to manually navigate through complex interfaces. The system serves itself by autonomously identifying when users want to perform operations like muting, recording, or screen sharing based on their speech patterns and contextual parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of voice input and contextual parameters before user actions are needed. By continuously monitoring keywords and context during the communication session, the system prepares and presents operation prompts in advance, eliminating the need for users to search through complex interfaces when they want to perform operations.
2Reliability
If the system provides comprehensive control over communication functions, then functionality is complete, but users may be unaware of current device states leading to unintended actions
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback by presenting operation prompts that display the current state of communication functions (e.g., whether the microphone is muted, whether recording is active, whether screen sharing is enabled). This feedback mechanism ensures users are informed about the current state before performing actions, preventing unintended operations while maintaining comprehensive system functionality.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system continuously monitors voice input and context parameters to infer user intent, then the user experience is enhanced through automated prompts, but the processing requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial monitoring by focusing on specific keywords and relevant context parameters rather than analyzing all aspects of voice input. This selective approach enables the system to infer user intent for communication operations without requiring comprehensive analysis of every speech element, reducing processing requirements while maintaining adaptability.
Data Source
AI summary
In one aspect, a user's intent can be inferred based on voice analysis during a communications session, and prompts can be presented, or other actions taken, at least partly in response to the inferred intent. For example, a network microphone device (NMD) having one or more microphones can capture voice input and transmit the voice input to remote computing device(s) for a communication session (e.g., a videoconference). The NMD can analyze the voice input to detect one or more utterances. Based on the utterance(s), the NMD can cause a user prompt to be displayed via a display device communicatively coupled to the NMD. The particular prompt can depend at least in part on one or more context parameters associated with the communication session (e.g., a microphone state of one or more users, a screen share state of one or more users, or a recording status of the session, etc.).