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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Thomas R. Gruber, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Harry J. Saddler, Berkeley, CA (US);
Lia T. Napolitano, San Francisco, CA (US);
Emily Clark Schubert, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Conrad Sumner, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing hands-free reading of content comprising: identifying a plurality of data items for presentation to a user, the plurality of data items associated with a domain-specific item type and sorted according to a particular order; based on the domain-specific item type, generating a speech-based overview of the plurality of data items; for each of the plurality of data items, generating a respective speech-based, item-specific paraphrase for the data item based on respective content of the data item; and providing, to a user through the speech-enabled dialogue interface, the speech-based overview, followed by the respective speech-based, item-specific paraphrases for at least a subset of the plurality of data items in the particular order.