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Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 28, 2012
Applicants:

Sundar Balasubramanian, Seattle, WA (US);

Michael Mcsherry, Seattle, WA (US);

Aaron Sheedy, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Sundar Balasubramanian, Seattle, WA (US);

Michael McSherry, Seattle, WA (US);

Aaron Sheedy, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/04 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06F 17/30654 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0241 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method are described for engaging an audience in a conversational advertisement. A conversational advertising system converses with an audience using spoken words. The conversational advertising system uses a speech recognition application to convert an audience's spoken input into text and a text-to-speech application to transform text of a response to speech that is to be played to the audience. The conversational adverting system follows an advertisement script to guide the audience in a conversation.


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