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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2013
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
David Andrew Mauro, Montréal, CA;
Henri Bouvier, Montréal, CA;
Elizabeth Ann Dykstra-Erickson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simona Gandrabur, Verdun, CA;
Susan Dawnstarr Daniel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aimee Piercy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Douglas Sharp, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of providing a task assistant is described. The task assistant is designed to receive input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, determine the meaning of the input, and determining whether there is a context based on prior interactions with the user. The method further to generate an interpreted input based on a combination of the input and the context, and providing a formatted query to an application. The method further to receive data from the application in response to the formatted query, and provide a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output. The method further to update the context based on the interpreted input.