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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2009
Anne K. Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lisa Stifelman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kathleen J. Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Su Chuin Leong, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Anne K. Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lisa Stifelman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kathleen J. Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Su Chuin Leong, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a user interface for providing press-to-talk-interaction via utilization of a touch-anywhere-to-speak module on a mobile computing device. Upon receiving an indication of a touch anywhere on the screen of a touch screen interface, the touch-anywhere-to-speak module activates the listening mechanism of a speech recognition module to accept audible user input and displays dynamic visual feedback of a measured sound level of the received audible input. The touch-anywhere-to-speak module may also provide a user a convenient and more accurate speech recognition experience by utilizing and applying the data relative to a context of the touch (e.g., relative location on the visual interface) in correlation with the spoken audible input.