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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2007
Timothy D. Sharpe, Redmond, WA (US);
Cameron A. Etezadi, Bellevue, WA (US);
Timothy D. Sharpe, Redmond, WA (US);
Cameron A. Etezadi, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Depiction of a speech user interface via graphical elements is provided. One or more bits of a graphical user interface bitmask are re-designated as speech bits. When a software application processes the re-designated speech bits, a window manager responsible for generating and rendering a graphical user interface for the application passes information to a secondary window manager responsible for generating and rendering a speech user interface. The secondary speech window manager may load a text-to-speech engine, a speech recognizer engine, a lexicon or library of recognizable words or phrases and a set of 'grammars' (recognizable words and phrasing) for building a speech user interface that will receive, recognize and act on spoken input to the associated software application.