AUDIO USER INTERFACE

Patent №

US 8,898,568

Granted

2014-11-25

Filed 2008

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12207314

An audio user interface that provides audio prompts that help a user interact with a user interface of an electronic device is disclosed. The audio prompts can provide audio indicators that allow a user to focus his or her visual attention upon other tasks such as driving an automobile, exercising, or crossing a street, yet still enable the user to interact with the user interface. An intelligent path can provide access to different types of audio prompts from a variety of different sources. The different types of audio prompts may be presented based on availability of a particular type of audio prompt. As examples, the audio prompts may include pre-recorded voice audio, such as celebrity voices or cartoon characters, obtained from a dedicate voice server. Absent availability of pre-recorded or synthesized audio data, non-voice audio prompts may be provided.

Natural languageSpeechAI hardwareG06F 3/167G01C 21/3629G10L 13/00G10L 13/08H04M 1/72481H04M 2201/39

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language1.00
AI hardware0.60
Machine learning0.15
Knowledge representation0.07
Planning0.06
Vision0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 215980594

Assignors

BULL, WILLIAM, ROTTLER, BEN

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

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