Conversational networking via transport, coding and control conversational protocols
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorStephane Maes
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Abstract
A system and method for implementing conversational protocols for distributed conversational networking architectures and/or distributed conversational applications, as well as real-time conversational computing between network-connected pervasive computing devices and/or servers over a computer network. The implementation of distributed conversational systems/applications according to the present invention is based, in part, on a suitably defined conversational coding, transport and control protocols. The control protocols include session control protocols, protocols for exchanging of speech meta-information, and speech engine remote control protocols.
Claims20
1-21. (canceled)
A system, comprising an application and audio processing engines, wherein the exchange of audio between the audio processing engines is decoupled from control and application level exchanges.
A distributed speech processing system, comprising:
- a conversational application;
- an audio I/O processing service, which is programmable by control messages generated by the conversational application to provide audio I/O services for the conversational application;
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- a speech engine service, which is programmable by control messages generated by the conversational application to provide speech processing services for the conversational application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.