Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Google Inc.

David Notario

Thomas W Millett

Michael P Wilson

Keith Coleman Herold

Jia Wei Tam

Michael Vladimirovich Reutov

Jon Hamaker

Dmitry Mikhailovich Chernenkov

Sriram Natarajan

Shannon P Guymon

Lennart Kolmodin

Tom Millet

Tom Millett

Yuxin Yu

Josh Brown

Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can provide suggestions for a user to interact with the automated assistant to control applications while in a vehicle. The suggestions can be provided to encourage hands-free interactions with the applications, by suggesting an assistant input that invokes the automated assistant to operate as an interface between the user and the applications. Assistant suggestions can be based on a context of a user and/or a context of the vehicle, such as content of a display interface of a device that the user is accessing while in the vehicle. For instance, the automated assistant can determine that an action that the user has employed an application to perform can be initialized more safely and/or in less time by utilizing a particular assistant input. This particular assistant input can then be rendered at an interface of a vehicle computing device.

Providing contextual automated assistant action suggestion(s) via a vehicle computing device

An online application store may include an interface that provides collections to users of the application store. In one implementation, a webpage may be provided that presents, to a user of the online application store, a number of applications that are available, to the client, as applications for installation. The webpage may provide a visual interface that includes a first section that includes graphical representations of at least some of the applications; and a second section that provides an identification of one or more collections that each correspond to a subset of the applications. The one or more collections may include: a first collection that was created or edited by the user; and a second collection that was created or edited by one or more other users, the second collection being selected for the webpage, from a number of collections that were created or edited by the one or more other users, based on a ranking score that is determined at least based on a number of times that the subset of the applications, corresponding to the second collection, were installed.

User curated collections for an online application environment

A language-neutral speech grammar extensible markup language (GRXML) document and a localized response document are used to build a localized GRXML document. The language-neutral GRXML document specifies an initial grammar rule element. The initial grammar rule element specifies a given response type identifier and a given action. The localized response document contains a given response entry that specifies the given response type identifier and a given response in a given language. The localized GRXML document specifies a new grammar rule element. The new grammar rule element specifies the given response in the given language and the given action. The localized GRXML document is installed in an interactive voice response (IVR) system. The localized GRXML document configures the IVR system to perform the given action when a user of the IVR system speaks the given response to the IVR system.

Localization for interactive voice response systems

Textual preview of a voicemail is generated and provided through email or similar media to users along with the audio version. Transcription of the textual version, as well as additional capabilities such as actionable terms, playback-jump, switching between text and audio versions, direct or metadata based searchability, and enhanced response capabilities are provided based on contextual data obtained from voicemail metadata and user associated data stores such as contact list, email history.

Enhanced voicemail usage through automatic voicemail preview

A computing device includes a processing unit and a system memory. The processing unit creates a normalization module programmed to modify a plurality of telephone numbers so that the telephone numbers conform to a specified format, creates a calling line manipulation module programmed to manipulate a calling line identification number to form a number for querying one or more databases including contact information, and creates a resource query module programmed to query the databases including the contacting information using the number, receive one or more query results from the databases, and select one of the query results for inclusion in a notification of a telephonic message.

Resolving calling line identification information

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