System and method for customizing portable natural language processing interface for appliances

Abstract

A method and system of customizing a portable voice-based control user interface for multiple types of appliances are disclosed. The method performed at a user device includes establishing a data communication connection with a voice control apparatus; detecting a first user request to update a NLP module of the voice control apparatus; establishing a connection to a NLP model server; displaying a listing of appliance types and a respective listing of appliance functions for each appliance type, in a graphical user interface of the user device; receiving user selection of a first set of appliance functions for a first appliance type and a second set of appliance functions for a second appliance type; downloading, from the NLP model server, a first NLP model for the first set of appliance functions for the first appliance type, and a second NLP model for the second set of appliance functions for the second appliance type; and integrating the first NLP model and second NLP model into the NLP module of the voice control apparatus.