System and method for voice controlled video screen display
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsMichael Kenneth Brown, Bruce Melvin Buntschuh
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Abstract
A system and method for a voice controlled video screen display system are provided. The voice controlled system is useful for providing "hands-free" navigation through various video screen displays such as the World Wide Web network and interactive television displays. During operation of the system, language models are provided from incoming data in applications such as the World Wide Web network.
Claims20
A voice-interactive video screen display system comprising:
- means for recognizing a set of data links, each data link associated with visual information concurrently displayed on a video scrcen;
- means for recognizing voiced ulterances corresponding to the displayed visual information on said video screen and the associated data link, and generating corresponding natural language text, said visual information having been diplayed prior to the voiced utterances being spoken;
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- means for evaluating said natural language text and converting said natural language text to programming commands for changing the video screen display in accordance with said data link corresponding to said recognized voiced utterances.
A device for accessing pages of a video screen display from a data connection comprising:
- means for recognizing a set of data links, each associated with visual information concurrently displayed on at least a portion of a video screen display;
- means for providing grammar corresponding to said data links of said video screen display;
- means for recognizing speech and identifying whether the speech corresponds to said grammar associated with any one of said data links and th associated visual information already displayed;
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- means for transmitting a signal representative of a new video screen display if the speech corresponds to said any one data link, said new video screen display being associated with the one data link.
A method for accessing pages of a video screen display from a data connection comprising:
- recognizing a set of data links, each associated with visual information concurrently displayed on at least a portion of a video screen display;
- producing grammar corresponding to said data links of said video screen display;
- recognizing speech and identifying whether the speech corresponds to said grammar associated with any one of said data links and the associated visual information already displayed;
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- if the speech corresponds to one of said data links, transmitting a signal representative of a new video screen display associated with the one data link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.