Voice Interface Integration for Hands-Free App Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing software applications require manual input methods like clicking and typing, which are cumbersome and inefficient, especially for users with limited technical skills, vision impairments, or those needing hands-free operation, and current voice assistants lack comprehensive integration with diverse applications.
Innovation Solution
A voice interface integration system that transforms mobile, computer, and web applications into voice-interactive versions using AI to map functionalities, enabling voice-activated navigation and interaction through a specialized SDK or browser extension, with features like voice-driven assistants, product search mechanisms, and merchant-facing analytics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional manual input methods (clicking, typing) are used, then application functionality is maintained, but user efficiency and accessibility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical input methods (clicking, typing) with voice-based acoustic input. The voice interface system captures spoken commands, converts them to text through speech-to-text conversion, and processes them to control application functions, thereby improving both efficiency and accessibility for users with limited technical skills or vision impairments.
2Ease of operation
If voice interface integration is implemented, then ease of operation and accessibility improve, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a voice interface system as an intermediary layer between the user and the application. This system includes speech-to-text conversion, natural language processing, and command interpretation components that translate voice inputs into application-specific commands, managing the complexity while maintaining ease of use.
Solution Approach 2:
The voice interface system is designed to be universally applicable across multiple applications and platforms. By creating a standardized voice command interface that can work with diverse applications (messaging, shopping, information search), the system manages complexity through reusability rather than requiring separate implementations for each application.
3Ease of operation
If comprehensive voice interaction is enabled, then user experience improves, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and categorizing voice commands as they are received. Speech-to-text conversion and initial command routing are executed immediately, allowing for parallel processing of different command types and reducing overall processing time through early intervention in the command pipeline.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for voice-based interaction between a user (e.g., a shopper) and online stores includes capturing an initial voice input from a user and converting the voice input to text. The text is analyzed and initial search terms are created such as product name, product description, product category, product brand name, product manufacturer and retailer. One or more searches are conducted using the initial search terms to identify one or more retailers meeting the search terms. One or more identified online retailers are accessed and searches are executed at the one or more identified retailers, generating search results. The identified online retailers have a user interface allowing purchases of the identified product or item. The search results are returned to the user.