US Patent 11315544 Cognitive modification of verbal communications from an interactive computing device

A method includes: determining, by a computer device, a current context associated with a user that is the target audience of an unprompted verbal output of an interactive computing device; determining, by the computer device, one or more parameters that are most effective in getting the attention of the user for the determined current context; and modifying, by the computer device, the unprompted verbal output of the interactive computing device using the determined one or more parameters.