US 11,900,925 B2Granted

Output method and electronic device

AssigneeLenovo (Beijing) Limited

InventorsWenlin Yan, Shifeng Peng

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Abstract

An output method includes obtaining voice information, determining whether the voice information is a voice request, in response to the voice information being the voice request, obtaining reply information for replying to the voice request and supplemental information, transmitting the reply information and the supplemental information to an output device for outputting the reply information and the supplemental information using different parameters, such that an output of the reply information is prioritized over an output of the supplemental information, and in response to receiving a predetermined operation, outputting the reply information and the supplemental information using different parameters, such that the output of the supplemental information is prioritized over the output of the reply information. The supplemental information is information that needs to be outputted in association with the reply information.

Claims14

Dependent claims

An output method, comprising:

obtaining voice information;
determining whether the voice information is a voice request;
in response to the voice information being the voice request, obtaining reply information for replying to the voice request and supplemental information, the supplemental information being information that needs to be outputted in association with the reply information;
transmitting the reply information and the supplemental information to an audio output device for outputting the reply information and the supplemental information using a first sound volume and a second sound volume parameter, respectively, such that a sound volume of an audio output of the reply information is higher than a sound volume of an audio output of the supplemental information;
and
in response to receiving a predetermined operation, outputting the reply information and the supplemental information using the second sound volume and the first sound volume parameter, respectively, such that the sound volume of the audio output of the supplemental information is higher than the sound volume of the audio output of the reply information, the predetermined operation including a gesture or a voice command.

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An electronic device comprising:

a processor configured to:
obtain voice information;
determine whether the voice information is a voice request;
in response to the voice information being the voice request, obtain reply information for replying the voice request and supplemental information, and the supplemental information being information that needs to be outputted in association with the reply information;
and
transmit the reply information and the supplemental information;
and
an audio output circuit configured to:
output the reply information and the supplemental information using a first sound volume and a second sound volume parameter, respectively, such that a sound volume of an audio output of the reply information is higher than a sound volume of an audio output of the supplemental information;
and
in response to receiving a predetermined operation, output the reply information and the supplemental information using the second sound volume and the first sound volume parameter, respectively, such that the sound volume of the audio output of the supplemental information is higher than the sound volume of the audio output of the reply information, the predetermined operation including a gesture or a voice command.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/735,297Filed 3 May 2022 · continuation
Priority: CN 201810287318.030 Mar 2018
Published: US 2022/0358911 A110 Nov 2022
Granted: 13 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 40/35
Semantic analysis: discourse or dialogue representation
G10L 15/1822
Using natural language modelling: parsing for meaning understanding
G06F 3/167
Sound input; Sound output: audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
G10L 15/22
Speech recognition: procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue

Family

Application16/368,779Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Mar 2019
US 2022/0358911 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Nov 2022
US 11,373,643 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0304440 A1Published application
US 11,900,925 B2This patent

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