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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2007
Applicants:

Assaf Baciu, Berkeley, CA (US);

Kevin M. Stone, Mountain View, CA (US);

David A. Winarsky, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Assaf Baciu, Berkeley, CA (US);

Kevin M. Stone, Mountain View, CA (US);

David A. Winarsky, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/00 (2013.01); G10L 25/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/00 (2013.01); H04M 3/51 (2006.01); G10L 13/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01); H04M 3/53 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/5191 (2013.01); G10L 13/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2013.01); H04M 3/5166 (2013.01); H04M 3/5322 (2013.01); H04M 2201/39 (2013.01); H04M 2201/40 (2013.01); H04M 2201/60 (2013.01); H04M 2203/2061 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a system, method and software application for enabling a customer service agent to efficiently communicate with users of a communication device. When a user enters speech input into his communication device, the speech is converted to text, and the text is displayed to the customer service agent on the agent's computer screen. Alternately, the user's speech input is provided to the customer service agent in the form of an audio file. The agent types a response, and the agent's response is provided to the user on the user's communication device. The agent's response may be converted to speech and played to the user, and/or the agent's response may be displayed as text on the display screen of the user's communication device.


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