Volkswagen Ag

Mark Pleschka

Stefan Schulz

Oliver Meyer

Spyros Kousidis

Sebastian Varges

Zeno Wolze

Silvio Federau

Kim Maurice Cedziwoda

Okko Buss

Stefan Struhs

A transportation vehicle having a navigation system and an operating system connected to the navigation system for data transmission via a bus system. The transportation vehicle has a microphone and includes a phoneme generation module for generating phonemes from an acoustic voice signal or the output signal of the microphone; the phonemes are part of a predefined selection of exclusively monosyllabic phonemes; and a phoneme-to-grapheme module for generating inputs to operate the transportation vehicle based on monosyllabic phonemes generated by the phoneme generation module.

Transportation vehicle control with phoneme generation

A method for changing the audio response voice of a voice control system based on an activation command of a user. The method includes the user requesting the change of the activation command, the user inputting the new activation command, the gender of the new activation command being determined, setting the audio response voice in accordance with the gender in response to the gender being unambiguously masculine or unambiguously feminine, retaining the present audio response voice in response to the gender being neither unambiguously masculine nor unambiguously feminine, and applying the new activation command.

Audio response voice of a voice control system

A method for providing a user interface in which a set of objects stored in the form of data is displayed as a sequential list. The method involves each of the objects being allocated a position in a graphical presentation displayed in addition to the sequential list, the position being taken as a basis for displaying the objects in the graphical presentation. A first user action selects a position in the graphical presentation, and the selected position is taken as a basis for selecting a subset from the displayed set of objects in the sequential list. The positions in the graphical presentation are allocated a metric, wherein it is possible to ascertain a measure of distance between two positions, and an object is included in the subset on the basis of the measure of distance between the position associated with the respective object and the selected position.

Method and apparatus for providing a user interface

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Berlin, Germany

Mark Pleschka