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Method, apparatus and system for use in navigation
Peter Shintani,Art Ozaki +1 more
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In this article, the authors provide methods, processes and systems for use in determining navigation, including methods that receive a communication at a mobile navigation system from an external device, determine whether the communication comprises navigation information, extract the navigation information when the communication includes navigation information and identify a navigation location based on the navigation location, retrieve a current location, and generate navigation instructions.Citations
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Context-aware voice guidance
Jonathan A. Bennett,Stephen O. Lemay,Marcel van Os,Scott Forstall,Bradford A. Moore,Emanuele Vulcano,Seejo K. Pylappan +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a context-aware voice guidance method is provided that interacts with other voice services of a user device, which does not provide audible guidance while the user is making a verbal request to any of the voice-activated services.
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Voice Actions on Computing Devices
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Navigation application with adaptive instruction text
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