Smart automatic composition of short messaging responses

A computing device configured to facilitate personal communication, the computing device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to:
• implement a digital assistant;
• receive an incoming electronic communication message;
• prepare a proposed response to the incoming electronic communication message;
• calculate a level of confidence that the proposed response is responsive to the received electronic communication message;
• responsive to the calculated level of confidence meeting a predetermined confidence threshold, utilize the digital assistant to provide an aural alert to a user of the computing device to indicate availability of the proposed response to the incoming electronic communication message, wherein the aural alert indicating availability of a proposed response is different from an aural alert indicating availability of an incoming electronic communication message to which no proposed responses meet the predetermined confidence threshold;
• utilize the digital assistant to aurally present the proposed response to the user;
• and
• receive a voice input from the user based on the presentation.

One or more non-transitory hardware-based computer-readable memory devices storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors within a computing device, cause the computing device to:

• receive an incoming message from a sender;
• responsive to receiving the incoming message, prepare one or more proposed responses based on content in the incoming message;
• calculate a level of confidence or relevance for the prepared one or more proposed responses;
• determine whether to alert a user based on the calculated level of confidence or relevance associated with the one or more proposed responses;
• responsive to the determination, alert the user of the one or more proposed responses, through a user interface, the alert being configured to provide an indication to the user of the incoming message and the availability of proposed responses that meet respective threshold levels of confidence or relevance, wherein the alert and proposed responses are instantiated as separate elements on the user interface;
• and
• responsive to receiving user input at the computing device, present the one or more proposed responses on the computing device.