Voice Control Of Interactive Whiteboard Appliances

A method comprising:

• detecting, during execution of an annotation window on a interactive whiteboard appliance, a voice input received from a user;
• storing, in an audio packet, a recording of the voice input;
• transmitting the audio packet to a speech-to-text service;
• receiving, from the speech-to-text service, a command string comprising a transcription of the recording of the voice input;
• using voice mode command processing in a command processor, identifying, from the command string, an executable command that is executable by the interactive whiteboard appliance;
• causing the application of the interactive whiteboard appliance to execute the executable command.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions embodied thereon, the instructions when executed by the one or more processors cause performance of:

• detecting, during execution of an annotation window on an interactive whiteboard appliance, a voice input received from a user;
• storing, in an audio packet, a recording of the voice input;
• transmitting the audio packet to a speech-to-text service;
• receiving, from the speech-to-text service, a command string comprising a transcription of the recording of the voice input;
• using voice mode command processing in a command processor, identifying, from the command string, an executable command that is executable by the interactive whiteboard appliance;
• causing the application of the interactive whiteboard appliance to execute the executable command.