Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hands-free list-reading by intelligent automated assistant
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Application No.: US13913423Application Date: 2013-06-08
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Publication No.: US10679605B2Publication Date: 2020-06-09
- Inventor: Thomas R. Gruber , Harry J. Saddler , Lia T. Napolitano , Emily Clark Schubert , Brian Conrad Sumner
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Dentons US LLP
- Main IPC: G10L13/00
- IPC: G10L13/00

Abstract:
Systems and methods for providing hands-free reading of content comprising: identifying a plurality of data items for presentation to a user, the plurality of data items associated with a domain-specific item type and sorted according to a particular order; based on the domain-specific item type, generating a speech-based overview of the plurality of data items; for each of the plurality of data items, generating a respective speech-based, item-specific paraphrase for the data item based on respective content of the data item; and providing, to a user through the speech-enabled dialogue interface, the speech-based overview, followed by the respective speech-based, item-specific paraphrases for at least a subset of the plurality of data items in the particular order.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130275138A1 Hands-Free List-Reading by Intelligent Automated Assistant Public/Granted day:2013-10-17
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