A hypersound document which insures reductions in cost and power requirement of electronic information terminals and a reproducer therefor. The hypersound document has plural pieces of voice data, a time table, and link destinations therein. In an embodiment shown in FIG. 1, "Sound1" for a piece of voice data, a start (t1) and an end (T1) for a time table, and "URL1" for a link destination are associated and stored.

Merged "grammars" derived from statistical indicators (e.g., N-grams and cohorts) are used to enable speech-based, Internet searches.

A method for inputting graphical data into a graphical input field includes initiating an input of graphical data via a graphical input device into the graphical input field, and actuating a voice-form module in response to initiating the input of graphical data. Actuating the voice-form module includes actuating a first voice-form function for capturing an initial value corresponding to the graphical input field and actuating a second voice-form function based upon a final value corresponding t...

A method for speech enabling an application can include the step of specifying a speech input within a speech-enabled markup. The speech-enabled markup can also specify an application operation that is to be executed responsive to the detection of the speech input. After the speech input has been defined within the speech-enabled markup, the application can be instantiated. The specified speech input can then be detected and the application operation can be responsively executed in accordance wi...

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for associating dynamic sound content with a web page in a browser. A request for text data is received from the browser. The requested text data is retrieved from a source, such as a database, and converted into a sound file. The retrieved text data may be converted to a sound file by translating the text data into audio data, formatting the audio data based on a predetermined audio format, and writing the formatted audio data to a file...

A system and method for facilitating voice communications between an end user and a third party Internet web application. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the communication interface unit is operated by an entity separate from the entity operating the third party Internet web application. The communication interface unit receives a voice communication from the end user device and converts the voice communication into a data communication capable of being received and processed...

A directed dialogue portal system management scheme is disclosed, providing a manager application layer over portal system managed applications. The manager application layer may include a global grammar (e.g., the grammar of each managed application) and each managed application may inherit behaviors of the manager application. Responses to prompts received by a first managed application that are unrecognized or are directed to a second managed application are sent to the manager application. T...

A method of presenting a multi-modal help dialog move to a user in a multi-modal dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises presenting an audio portion of the multi-modal help dialog move that explains available ways of user inquiry and presenting a corresponding graphical action performed on a user interface associated with the audio portion. The multi-modal help dialog move is context-sensitive and uses current display information and dialog contextual information to present a multi-moda...

A method of presenting a multi-modal help dialog move to a user in a multi-modal dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises presenting an audio portion of the multi-modal help dialog move that explains available ways of user inquiry and presenting a corresponding graphical action performed on a user interface associated with the audio portion. The multi-modal help dialog move is context-sensitive and uses current display information and dialog contextual information to present a multi-moda...

A method, a system, and an apparatus for identifying and correcting sources of problems in synthesized speech which is generated using a concatenative text-to-speech (CTTS) technique. The method can include the step of displaying a waveform corresponding to synthesized speech generated from concatenated phonetic units. The synthesized speech can be generated from text input received from a user. The method further can include the step of displaying parameters corresponding to at least one of the...