Implicit narration for aural user interface
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsBrian S. Stucker, David Lu, Allen L. Ussher, Jennifer L. Bost
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Abstract
A computing device and a method for controlling narration. The computing device comprises a display device displaying a visual user interface including textual information and an electronic processor configured to map the textual information to an implicit audio narration, wherein mapping textual information to the implicit audio narration has a scalable level of precision to the textual information depending on the visual user interface, and the electronic processor further configured to output the implicit audio narration.
Claims17
A computing device comprising:
- a visual user interface including textual information and graphical information;
- and
- an electronic processor configured to:
- map each field of the textual information of the visual user interface to an implicit audio narration, wherein mapping a field of the textual information to the implicit audio narration has a scalable level of precision based on a context of content in the visual user interface,
- map the graphical information to the implicit audio narration, wherein mapping the graphical information to the implicit audio narration includes mapping a graphical icon to an application name, and
- output the implicit audio narration.
A method for controlling narration, the method comprising:
- receiving a textual information from a visual user interface;
- mapping, with an electronic processor, each field of the textual information from the visual user interface to an implicit audio narration, wherein mapping a field of the textual information to the implicit audio narration has a scalable level of precision based on a context of content in the visual user interface,
- receiving graphical information from a visual user interface,
- mapping the graphical information to the implicit audio narration, wherein mapping the graphical information to the implicit audio narration includes mapping a graphical icon to an application name, and
- outputting the implicit audio narration.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform a method for controlling narration, the method comprising:
- receiving textual information from a visual user interface,
- mapping each field of the textual information from the visual user interface to an implicit audio narration, wherein mapping a field of the textual information to the implicit audio narration has a scalable level of the precision based on a context of content in the visual user interface,
- receiving graphical information from a visual user interface,
- mapping the graphical information to the implicit audio narration, wherein mapping the graphical information to the implicit audio narration includes mapping a graphical icon to an application name, and
- outputting the implicit audio narration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.