In one example, this invention presents a method of providing the same
self-service content that is available on the web interface to users
contacting by telephone, knowing that the web and telephone are
fundamentally different user interfaces. In one embodiment, this seeks to
protect the general idea of how to playback web data in real-time to the
user over the speech interface. For this purpose, a method is presented
comprising of the general steps through which the web data is initially
sent to an automatic transformation module. Then, that transformation
module refines or re-structures the web data to make it suitable for the
speech interface. The algorithm in the module is predicated on the user
interface principles of cognitive complexity and limitations on short
term memory based on which FAQ types are classified into one of the
following four classes: simple, medium, complex, and complex-complex.