VOICE-ENABLED DIALOG SYSTEM

Patent №

US 7,869,998

Granted

2011-01-11

Filed 2002

Owner

AT&T CORP.

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · speech · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10325295

A voice-enabled help desk service is disclosed. The service comprises an automatic speech recognition module for recognizing speech from a user, a spoken language understanding module for understanding the output from the automatic speech recognition module, a dialog management module for generating a response to speech from the user, a natural voices text-to-speech synthesis module for synthesizing speech to generate the response to the user, and a frequently asked questions module. The frequently asked questions module handles frequently asked questions from the user by changing voices and providing predetermined prompts to answer the frequently asked question.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware0.92
Planning0.68
Knowledge representation0.16
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

AT&T CORP.

assignment · 136420231

Assignors

DI FABBRIZIO, GIUSEPPE, DUTTON, DAWN L., GUPTA, NARENDRA K., HOLLISTER, BARBARA B., RAHIM, MAZIN G, RICCARDI, GIUSEPPE, SCHAPIRE, ROBERT ELIAS, SCHROETER, JUERGEN

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