Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System, method, and recording medium for controlling dialogue interruptions by a speech output device
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Application No.: US15798592Application Date: 2017-10-31
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Publication No.: US10943592B2Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: Christopher J. Hardee , Steven Robert Joroff , Pamela Ann Nesbitt , Scott Edward Schneider
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: McGinn IP Law Group, PLLC
- Agent Samuel Waldbaum, Esq.
- Main IPC: G10L15/20
- IPC: G10L15/20 ; G10L17/06 ; G10L17/26 ; G10L25/93 ; G10L25/84 ; G06F3/16 ; G10L15/22 ; G10L17/00

Abstract:
A computer speech output control method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include a computer speech output unit configured to output a computer speech, a human speech monitoring circuit configured to determine whether ambient human conversation including human-to-human speech is occurring, and an interruption determining circuit configured to determine whether to cause the computer speech output unit to output the computer speech based on a status of the human conversation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180053513A1 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING DIALOGUE INTERRUPTIONS BY A SPEECH OUTPUT DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-02-22
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