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Seung Yang

Gerrit H Hofmeester

Jonathan Eric Gleasman

Leslie Macneil

Moneta K Ho Kushner

Finbarr Duggan

Kieran M Phelan

Jeffrey Jon Weir

Vasudha Chandrasekaran

Gary Sherman

Alice Jane Bernheim Brush

Daryl Tanghe

Song Zou

Jonathan Marshall Cain

Paul Cutsinger

Nancy Phan

William Frederick Kiefer

Robert E Corrington

Diane Shambaugh

Daniel L Odell

Paul Johns

Jen Anderson

Derek Richard Westcott

Robert David Rugge

Thomas J Layson

Kjersten Hayter

Kathryn G Rasmussen

Connie Missimer

Ji Gao

Jean Ku

Gamage I Viriththamulla

Jalayne Taber Boni

Douglas Koenig

Nathan William Bower

Mun (Scott) Ying Leong

Techniques involving selective modification of keyboard presentation and functionality. A commanding mode is selectively activated on a virtual keyboard. Activating the commanding mode attributes commands to respective individual keys of the virtual keyboard. Also in response to the commanding mode, indicia suggestive of the command is presented on those individual keys to which the commands were attributed. The commands can be executed in an application in response to selection of the respective individual keys when in commanding mode.

Dynamic command presentation and key configuration for keyboards

Display screen with a graphical user interface

Display screen with a transitional graphical user interface

Whenever an event occurs on a computing system which will accept a response from a user of the system, the system automatically determines whether or not to enable speech interaction with the system for the event response. Whenever speech interaction is enabled with the system for the event response, the system provides a notification to the user which informs the user of the event and their options for responding thereto, where these options include responding verbally. Whenever the user responds within a prescribed period of time via a voice command (VC), the system attempts to recognize the VC. Whenever the VC is successfully recognized, the system responds appropriately to the VC.

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