Real-Time Voicemail Quality Feedback System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Voicemail systems do not provide real-time quality feedback to callers, leading to potential low-quality messages being recorded before issues are identified, which can be frustrating and wasteful, especially for lengthy messages.

Innovation Solution

A system that analyzes voice and video messages in real-time for quality issues during recording, notifying the caller of low quality and providing suggestions to rectify the issues, allowing for immediate action to improve the message quality without completing the recording.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the caller waits until the entire message is recorded before reviewing quality, then the caller can ensure message quality, but the time required to leave a high-quality message increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage qualityVSAvoidtime to record message
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary quality analysis during the message recording process itself, rather than waiting until the end. The quality assessment module continuously monitors the message as it is being recorded and provides real-time feedback to the caller, enabling early detection of quality issues before the entire message is completed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback mechanism that provides real-time quality information to the caller during message recording. The quality assessment module analyzes the message stream continuously and communicates quality status back to the caller immediately, allowing the caller to adjust their recording behavior based on current quality conditions rather than waiting for post-recording analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If the caller reviews the message after completion, then quality issues can be detected, but the caller must re-record the entire message if quality is poor, increasing time and effort

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality detection accuracyVSAvoidmessage recording efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary quality analysis during the message recording process itself, rather than waiting until the end. The quality assessment module continuously monitors the message as it is being recorded and provides real-time feedback to the caller, enabling early detection of quality issues before the entire message is completed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of requiring the caller to complete the entire message before quality assessment, the system performs partial quality analysis on the portion of the message recorded so far. This allows quality evaluation to occur incrementally during recording, enabling the caller to stop early if quality issues are detected, rather than having to re-record the entire message.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Loss of time

If real-time quality analysis is implemented during message recording, then time is reduced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime to record messageVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces a quality assessment module as an intermediary component between the message recording process and the caller. This module handles the complex real-time analysis tasks, including audio quality evaluation, noise detection, and quality threshold comparisons, thereby isolating the complexity from the caller interface while enabling real-time feedback.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS8675829B1Notify caller if low quality voicemail is being recorded
Publication Date: 2014.03.18 AVAYA INC
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AI summary

The present invention provides methods, devices, and systems for notifying a caller that they are leaving a low quality voice mail. The user can be notified that they are leaving such a voicemail before they are done leaving the message. This allows the user to try and leave another voicemail having a better quality, thereby making the voicemail more comprehensible.