Patent ID: 9570090
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,G10L

Claim:
1. A method for operating of a dialog system, the method comprising: activating, by means of a computing device comprising one or more processors and a memory, a speech acquiring mode; receiving, by means of the computing device, a first input of a user; deactivating, by means of the computing device, the speech acquiring mode; obtaining, by means of the computing device, a first response associated with the first input; delivering, by means of the computing device, the first response to the user; determining, by means of the computing device, that a conversation mode is activated; selecting, by means of the computing device, a first predetermined time period based on a number of words in the first response; and based on the determination that the conversation mode is activated, automatically re-activating, by means of the computing device, the speech acquiring mode within the first predetermined time period after delivery of the first response to the user.