Voice Interaction Mode for Smart Home Continuous Vocal Requests

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current voice interaction technologies for smart home appliances, such as smart TVs, require repeated wake-up prompts and supplemental information, leading to low search efficiency and inconvenience for users.

Innovation Solution

A voice interaction method and device that activates an interactive mode upon a wake-up prompt, displays a dialog prompt identification, and allows continuous vocal requests without repeated wake-up prompts, using a search prompt indicator and content guide to facilitate efficient content retrieval.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If far-field interactive mode is used to control smart home appliances, then user convenience is improved, but search efficiency deteriorates due to repeated wake-up prompts

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidsearch efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by maintaining an active interactive mode after the first wake-up prompt, pre-establishing the listening state and dialog context. This allows subsequent vocal requests to be processed without requiring repeated wake-up prompts, thus resolving the contradiction between user convenience and search efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If wake-up prompt is required for each interaction, then system reliability is improved, but interaction time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem reliabilityVSAvoidinteraction time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements continuity of useful action by maintaining the interactive mode continuously after activation, keeping the voice processing and dialog management functions active. This continuous state allows multiple vocal requests to be handled in sequence without time loss from repeated wake-up prompts, while reliability is maintained through proper mode management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Measurement precision

If multiple supplemental information inputs are required, then search accuracy is improved, but user operation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch accuracyVSAvoiduser operation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies feedback by providing a content guide after each vocal request that shows matching results and suggests refinements. This feedback mechanism guides users to provide more accurate search terms naturally, improving search accuracy without increasing perceived operation complexity, as users receive helpful guidance rather than facing a complex interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11217256B2Voice interaction method, device and terminal
Publication Date: 2022.01.04 BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECH (BEIJIBG) CO LTD
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AI summary

A voice interaction method, device, and terminal. The method includes receiving a wake-up prompt, activating an interactive mode according to the wake-up prompt, displaying a dialog prompt identification in the interactive mode, obtaining a vocal request, wherein the vocal request is input in response to the dialog prompt identification, and displaying a requested content according to the vocal request. In a variety of interaction scenarios, such as in a scenario of interacting with a smart home appliance, a user can continuously provide vocal requests in an interactive mode, without waking up the interactive mode repeatedly, thereby improving user experience.