DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE DIALOG WITH CONFIGURATION SWITCHES TO SWITCH FROM AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION TO OPERATOR-ASSISTED DIALOG

Patent №

US 7,912,201

Granted

2011-03-22

Filed 2006

Owner

SBC TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES, INC.

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11559350

A method of providing a caller with a directory assistance dialog. The dialog is configurable, at any level of the dialog, from an automated speech recognition (ASR) dialog to an operator-assisted (OP) dialog. The dialog is handed off to an operator if any level of the speech recognition dialog fails. Also, a configuration switch may be set to cause the dialog to be handed off to an operator even if a response at some level of the ASR dialog is successfully recognized.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechAI hardwareH04M 3/4936G10L 15/26H04M 3/4931H04M 3/4933H04M 2201/18H04M 2201/40H04M 2203/355

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
AI hardware0.90
Machine learning0.77
Knowledge representation0.49
Planning0.02
Evolutionary computation0.01
Vision0.00

Ownership

SBC TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES, INC.

assignment · 188180863

Assignors

MARTIN, JOHN M., BUSHEY, ROBERT R., CHANG, HISAO M.

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

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