Patent Document ID: 9786299
Application ID: 14561190

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus for an interactive dialog system, the apparatus comprising: a semantic content generation block configured to generate an output statement informationally responsive to a user dialog input; a classification block configured to select, based on at least one fact or profile input, an emotion type code to be imparted to the output statement, the emotion type code specifying one of a plurality of predetermined emotion types; and a text-to-speech block configured to generate speech corresponding to the output statement, the speech generated to have the predetermined emotion type specified by the emotion type code; wherein the at least one fact or profile input comprises a parameter derived from usage of a mobile communications device implementing the interactive dialog system, and wherein the at least one fact or profile input further comprises a digital assistant personality.

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Claim 12:
12. The apparatus of claim 1 , the classification block configured to select the emotion type code using an algorithm comprising at least one functional mapping between the at least one fact or profile input and a corresponding plurality of reference emotion types, the at least one functional mapping being derived from machine learning techniques, the algorithm being trained to map the at least one fact or profile input to an emotion type corresponding to an emotion type associated with delivery of the output statement by the digital assistant personality.