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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2019
Applicant:
West Corporation, Omaha, NE (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
West Corporation, Omaha, NE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2013.01); H04M 3/493 (2006.01); G10L 13/047 (2013.01); G10L 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 13/08 (2013.01); G10L 13/00 (2013.01); G10L 13/047 (2013.01); H04M 3/493 (2013.01); G10L 2013/083 (2013.01);
Abstract
To provide a more natural sounding set of voice prompts of an interactive voice response (IVR) script, the voice recordings of the prompts may be modified to have a predetermined amount of silence at the end of the recording. The amount of silence required can be determined from the context in which the voice prompt appears in the IVR script. Different contexts may include mid-sentence, terminating in a comma, or a sentence ending context. These contexts may require silence periods of 100 ms, 250 ms and 500 ms respectively. Voice files may be trimmed to remove any existing silence and then the required silence period may be added.