Assisted multi-modal dialogue
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorRenaud Lecoeuche
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Abstract
Controls are provided for a web server to generate client side markups that include recognition and/or audible prompting. The controls are organized in collections to obtain information pertaining to different topics. Each collection of controls create a separate dialog. In this manner, the collections can be selectively specified to execute the corresponding dialog.
Claims26
A computer readable medium having instructions, which when executed on a computer generate client side markup for a client in a client/server system, the instructions comprising:
- a set of controls for defining a dialog, the controls comprising at least a control for generating markup related to audible prompting of a question and for generating markup related to a grammar for recognition, the controls being organized in a set of collections based on topics of information to be obtained;
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- a module, when executed on the client, that creates a dialog that starts and stops as a function of the controls in at least one of the set of collections.
A computer implemented method for performing recognition and/or audible prompting on a computer, the method comprising:
- defining a plurality of dialogs with a set of controls, the set of controls comprising at least a question for generating an audible prompt of a question and a grammar used for recognition, the controls being organized in a set of collections based on topics of information to be obtained;
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- creating a complete dialog by specifying collections sequentially and executing the corresponding dialog that starts and stops as a function of the controls in each of the specified collections.
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