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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2013
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
David Andrew Mauro, Montréal, CA;
Robert Douglas Sharp, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Lajoie, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, CA;
Elizabeth Ann Dykstra-Erickson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method of providing a task assistant comprising starting to receive speech input from a user, and identifying a format associated with a destination for speech input based on a flag associated with the destination field. When the format comprises dictation, converting the speech to text, and inserting it into the destination location, and when the format comprises an intent, determining a meaning of the input, and sending a formatted query to an application. The method further comprising receiving data from the application in response to the intent and providing a response to the user through multimodal output.