Patent ID: 9343064
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: G10L,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a multimodal application to tailor a multimodal personality presented by the multimodal application to a user of the multimodal application, the multimodal application comprising a visual interface and a speech interface, the method comprising: evaluating speech data of speech of the user, received via the speech interface, to determine at least one attribute of the user's speech; and selecting a selected visual demeanor for the multimodal application based at least in part on the determined at least one attribute of the user's speech, wherein the multimodal application can be configured to employ any of a plurality of visual demeanors, wherein the selecting comprises selecting the selected visual demeanor from among the plurality of visual demeanors, each visual demeanor of the plurality of visual demeanors identifying a manner in which to format content for presentation in the visual interface of the multimodal application, each one of the plurality of visual demeanors specifying one or more formatting characteristics to be applied to the content when the one of the plurality of visual demeanors is selected, the one or more formatting characteristics selected from the group consisting of a color in which to present at least some of the content presented in the visual interface, a font in which to present at least some of the content presented in the visual interface, one or more supplemental graphic elements to be added to the content presented in the visual interface, and positions in the visual interface at which to present the content and/or the one or more supplemental graphic elements.