Event-triggered hands-free multitasking for media playback

• Main Author: BARTNIK, Grant Henry Robert
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 30.08.2023
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION

A method operable on an electronic device comprising:during media playback, detecting an event;outputting a first indication of the event to prompt a user, the first indication being a first audio overlaid on top of the media playback and including a synthetic spoken prompt describing the event;activating a speech recognition engine using a custom recognition grammar for recognizing a set of speech commands associated with the detected event;outputting a second indication of a state of readiness to process speech commands in association with the detected event, the second indication being a second audio overlaid on top of the media playback for indicating to the user an established time period for providing a speech command, the established time period being based on the event type of the detected event;recognizing a speech command from the user using the custom speech recognition grammar;in response to recognizing the speech command, pausing the media playback and executing the recognized speech command to provide controlling options to the user.