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US 2017/0256259 A1Published application
Speech Recognition
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorRaymond J. Froelich
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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorRaymond J. Froelich
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A computer system comprises an input configured to receive voice input from a user, the voice input having speech intervals separated by non-speech intervals; an ASR system configured to identify individual words in the voice input during speech intervals thereof, and store the identified words in memory; a response generation module configured to generate based on the words stored in the memory an audio response for outputting to the user; and a response delivery module configured to begin outputting the audio response to the user during a non-speech interval of the voice input, wherein the outputting of the audio response is terminated before it has completed in response to a subsequent speech interval of the voice input commencing whilst the audio response is still being outputted.
A computer system comprising:
A computer-implemented method of effecting communication between a user and an artificial intelligence software agent executed on a computer, the method comprising:
A computer program product comprising an artificial intelligence software agent stored on a computer readable storage medium, the software agent for communicating with a user based on the output of an ASR system, the ASR system configured to identify individual words in a voice input during speech intervals thereof, and store the identified words in memory, the software agent configured when executed to:
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