Voice Query Refinement via Graphical Interface Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Voice-enabled devices face challenges in interpreting ambiguous voice requests, leading to inefficiencies in executing user commands, particularly in scenarios like media content playback and account balance inquiries, where multiple options can satisfy the user's intent.
Innovation Solution
A system that receives voice queries, determines their interpretations, and generates a graphical user interface on a GUI-capable device with selectable options to refine the query, allowing users to select the intended command or media content item, thereby enabling precise execution of user requests.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If voice queries are interpreted automatically without user confirmation, then execution speed is improved, but interpretation accuracy deteriorates due to ambiguity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a graphical user interface as an intermediary between voice query interpretation and command execution. The system displays multiple possible interpretations to the user and allows them to select the correct one, thereby resolving the ambiguity without requiring complete re-phrasing of the voice command.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary interpretation of the voice query to generate multiple candidate meanings before execution. By pre-processing the query to identify possible interpretations and presenting them to the user in advance, the system avoids the need for slow iterative clarification while ensuring accurate command execution.
2Measurement precision
If multiple interpretation options are presented to the user, then interpretation accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface serves multiple functions: it displays interpretation options, receives user selection, and triggers appropriate commands. By making the GUI multi-functional, the patent avoids adding separate specialized components for each function, thereby managing system complexity while improving interpretation accuracy.
3Productivity
If voice queries are executed directly without refinement options, then productivity is improved, but user satisfaction deteriorates due to incorrect command execution
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to the user by displaying the interpreted meaning of their voice query before execution. This allows users to verify that the system correctly understood their intent, and to correct misinterpretations quickly, thereby maintaining high productivity while improving reliability through user confirmation.
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AI summary
A system for refinement of a voice query interpretation interprets a voice query received at a voice-enabled device to identify commands responsive to the voice query for execution at the voice-enabled device, and enables refinement of the interpretation of the voice query through a graphical user interface generated and displayed at a GUI-capable device. The graphical user interface includes a set of selectable options relating to the voice query and identifying a refinement of the interpretation of the voice query to enable control and/or adjustment of commands to be executed by the voice-enabled device. For example, if one of the selectable options is selected, then a command associated with the selected option is identified and executed by the voice-enabled device.