SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO NATURAL LANGUAGE SPEECH UTTERANCE

Patent №

US 7,640,160

Granted

2009-12-29

Filed 2005

Owner

VOICEBOX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Lab

AI components

6

ml · nlp · speech · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11197504

Systems and methods are provided for receiving speech and non-speech communications of natural language questions and/or commands, transcribing the speech and non-speech communications to textual messages, and executing the questions and/or commands. The invention applies context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users presenting questions or commands across multiple domains. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context of the speech and non-speech communications and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG10L 15/1822G06F 16/3329G06F 16/335G06F 40/30G06F 40/35G10L 15/19G10L 15/22G10L 15/26+1 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.98
Machine learning0.98
Vision0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

VOICEBOX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 168630474

Assignors

DI CRISTO, PHILIPPE, KE, MIN, KENNEWICK, ROBERT A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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