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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsSteve Russel Falcon, Clement Chun Pong Yip, David Michael Miller, Dan Banay
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Systems and methods are described for a speech system that manages multiple grammars from one or more speech-enabled applications. The speech system includes a speech server that supports different grammars and different types of grammars by exposing several methods to the speech-enabled applications. The speech server supports static grammars that do not change and dynamic grammars that may change after a commit. The speech server provides persistence by supporting persistent grammars that enable a user to issue a command to an application even when the application is not loaded. In such a circumstance, the application is automatically launched and the command is processed. The speech server may enable or disable a grammar in order to limit confusion between grammars. Global and yielding grammars are also supported by the speech server. Global grammars are always active (e.g., “call 9-1-1”) while yielding grammars may be deactivated when an interaction whose grammar requires priority is active.
A speech system, comprising:
A method, comprising:
One or more computer-readable media containing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on a computer, perform the following steps:
A speech server interface exposed by a speech system for use by one or more speech-enabled applications, comprising a persist method that a speech-enabled application uses to persist a grammar used by the speech-enabled application.
A speech server interface exposed by a speech system for use by one or more speech-enabled applications, comprising a create grammar method that is used to load an existing grammar used by a speech-enabled application or to load a new grammar for the speech-enabled application.
A speech server interface exposed by a speech system for use by one or more speech-enabled applications, comprising a yield-to-grammar method used by a speech-enabled application to de-activate all yielding grammars in the speech system other than the grammar used by the speech-enabled application.
A speech server interface exposed by a speech system for use by one or more speech-enabled applications, comprising an advise speech events method used by a speech-enabled application to let the speech system know that the speech-enabled application is listening for speech recognition events.
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