Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Daniel S Venolia

Xuedong D Huang

Joshua T Goodman

Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Scott D Quinn

A graphical user interface provides a graphical volume meter indicating the volume of the user's speech and a speech recognition meter showing the progress of a speech recognizer. The graphical volume meter and recognition meter are both located near each other on the display such that the user can focus on both meters at the same time. One aspect of the present invention is that a speech recognition meter is placed on the display near the insertion point where the user intends their speech to take effect. Thus, the user does not have to divert their view from the insertion point in order to check the progress of the speech recognizer.

Method and apparatus for displaying speech recognition progress

Fuzzy keyboards, to determine a most-likely-to-be-intended keystroke or keystrokes, are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method adds each of one or more keys to each of a current list of key sequence hypotheses, to create a new list of key sequence hypotheses. The method determines a likelihood probability for each hypothesis in the new list, and removes any hypothesis failing to satisfy any of one or more thresholds. The most likely key sequence of the new list may then be displayed. Some embodiments of the invention relate specifically to soft keyboards, while other embodiments relate specifically to real, physical and hard keyboards.

Fuzzy keyboard

Predictive keyboards, such as predictive soft keyboards, are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method predicts at least one key to be entered next within a sequence of keys. The method displays a soft keyboard where the predicted keys are displayed on the soft keyboard differently than the other keys on the keyboard. For example, the predicted keys may be larger in size on the soft keyboard as compared to the other keys. This makes the predicted keys more easily typed by a user as compared to the other keys.

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Daniel S Venolia