Patent Document ID: 9576571
Application ID: 14268351

Base Claim:
1. A method of operating a voice user interface, the method comprising: customizing, for a user, one or more audio prompts presented to the user via the voice user interface based at least in part on at least one spoken utterance of the user, wherein customizing the one or more audio prompts based at least in part on the analysis comprises: recognizing a personality trait associated with the user through analysis of the at least one spoken utterance of the user, wherein recognizing the personality trait comprises: receiving at least one morphological attribute of a plurality of words spoken by the user in the at least one spoken utterance, the at least one morphological attribute comprising a number of compound words that are in the plurality of words; and determining the personality trait associated with the user based at least in part on the at least one morphological attribute of the plurality of words spoken by the user, wherein the determining comprises determining whether the number of compound words exceeds a threshold; and selecting, based at least in part on the personality trait, between presenting a first audio prompt or a second audio prompt via the voice user interface; and outputting the one or more audio prompts, customized for the user, for presentation to the user via the voice user interface.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving at least one syntactic attribute associated with the plurality of words, the at least one syntactic attribute comprising a part of speech in at least one of the plurality of words, wherein receiving the at least one morphological attribute comprises receiving a number of words that are in the plurality of words, and wherein determining the personality trait associated with the user further comprises: determining whether the number of words of the plurality of words exceeds a second threshold value; and for the part of speech of the at least one of the plurality of words, determining whether a number of occurrences of the part of speech in the plurality of words exceeds a third threshold value associated with the part of speech.