Voice browser

About: Voice browser is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 140 publications have been published within this topic receiving 5476 citations.

System and media for simplifying web contents, and method thereof

Abstract: A technique for the simplification of Web pages in order to access necessary information rapidly, when displaying or outputting Web pages using a small screen device or a voice browser. A method for simplifying Web contents includes the steps of acquiring a target page subject to simplification, acquiring adjoining pages that adjoin the target page and performing a difference operation to delete objects that are common among the target page and the adjoining pages from the target page to generate a simplified page.

Voice browser implemented as a distributable component

Abstract: A system for implementing voice services can include at least one virtual machine, such as a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) virtual machine. The virtual machine can include a bean container for handling software beans, such as Enterprise Java Beans. The bean container can include a voice browser bean. The voice browser bean can include a VoiceXML browser.

Method and apparatus for optimizing a spoken dialog between a person and a machine

Abstract: A network comprises a number of speech-enabled sites maintaining a number of voice pages. A central server on the network executes a voice browser which provides users with access to the sites using voice-activated hyperlinks. The server also maintains and brokers information associated with the users based on spoken dialogs between the users and the sites. In response to a user accessing a given ASR site, information about that user is provided by the server for use by that ASR site. The information is used by the ASR site to optimize a spoken dialog between the user and the ASR site by reducing the amount of information the user is required to provide during the dialog. Information about the user can thereby be shared between separate speech enabled sites, in a manner which is transparent to the user, in order to expedite the user's interaction with those sites.

Mapping an internet document to be accessed over a telephone system

Abstract: Method and systems for enabling a user to create a user-defined map of an Internet document (350) to control how text and links of the Internet document (350) are presented to the user. A user selects and names (370) regions of text or links of an Internet document (350) to create a user-defined map. A user access a voice browser (380) which provides an audio representation (340) of the Internet document (350) based on the user-defined map. Prompts assists a user in creating and navigating through the user-defined map. User requests cause an audio representation (340) of the text or links associated with the user-defined map to be played to the user. When selected content associated with the user-defined map is modified then the updated content is provided to the user.

Voice-enabled, consumer transaction system

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating offline voice enabled consumer transactions. The system may include a voice browser and a voice recognition system. Using information contained in a voice data packet created by a user, the system can search various structured and unstructured databases to determine one or more matches relating to the voice data packet. This can be performed in a non-real time manner. If the desired item or service is found, the user can purchase the item or service.