Automated process and system for converting a flowchart into a speech mark-up language
In one embodiment a method for a data processing system is provided. The method comprises reading data corresponding to a flowchart; and generating an equivalent representation of the flowchart in a speech mark-up language. The flowchart may have been created in an arbitrary programming environment, and generating the equivalent representation is independent of a programming environment that was used to create the flowchart.
1 . A method for a data processing system, comprising:
reading data corresponding to a flowchart; and
generating an equivalent representation of the flowchart in a speech mark-up language.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the flowchart was created using an arbitrary programming environment.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the equivalent representation is independent of a programming environment that was used to create the flowchart.
4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising compiling the equivalent representation into a delivery language.
5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein reading the data corresponding to the flowchart comprises converting the data into a mark-up language format.
6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein generating the equivalent representation of the flowchart comprises first generating a network graph to represent the flowchart.
7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein generating the network graph is based upon shape and linking information about objects in the flowchart.
8 . The method of claim 6 , further comprising determining if the network graph is cyclic; and transforming said network graph into a plurality of acyclic graphs if it is cyclic.
9 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising tagging each object in the network graph with a speech language primitive.
10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the tagging is based upon a content of text information associated with the object.
11 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the tagging is based upon shape information associated with the object.
12 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the tagging is based upon spatial information about a location of the object in the flowchart.
13 . A system, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor cause the system to perform a method comprising:
reading data corresponding to a flowchart; and generating an equivalent representation of the flowchart in a speech mark-up language.
14 . The system of claim 13 , wherein the flowchart was created using an arbitrary programming environment.
15 . The system of claim 13 , wherein generating the equivalent representation is independent of a programming environment that was used to create the flowchart.
16 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising compiling the equivalent representation into a delivery language.
17 . The method of claim 13 , wherein reading the data corresponding to the flowchart comprises converting the data into a mark-up language format.
18 . A computer readable medium, having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which when executed by a processing system, cause the system to perform a method comprising:
reading data corresponding to a flowchart; and
generating an equivalent representation of the flowchart in a speech mark-up language.
19 . The computer readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the flowchart was created using an arbitrary programming environment.
20 . The computer readable medium of claim 18 , wherein generating the equivalent representation is independent of a programming environment that was used to create the flowchart.