Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Managing voice interface devices
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Application No.: US15957070Application Date: 2018-04-19
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Publication No.: US11145299B2Publication Date: 2021-10-12
- Inventor: Meltem Oktem , Max Benjamin Braun
- Applicant: X Development LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: X Development LLC
- Current Assignee: X Development LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G10L15/00
- IPC: G10L15/00 ; G10L15/20 ; G10L15/22 ; G10L25/51 ; G10L15/26 ; G10L25/84 ; G10L15/30 ; G10L13/00

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable storage devices, for managing voice interface devices. In some implementations, messages are received from a plurality of devices, each of the messages indicating a respective voice input detected by the device that sent the message. Audio signatures are obtained for the voice inputs detected by the plurality of devices. The audio signatures for the voice inputs and times that the voice inputs were detected are evaluated. Based on the evaluation, at least some of the plurality of devices are grouped to form a group of multiple devices that detected a same user utterance. A device from the group is selected to respond to the user utterance, and the multiple devices in the group are managed so that only the selected device outputs a synthesized speech response to the user utterance.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190325865A1 MANAGING VOICE INTERFACE DEVICES Public/Granted day:2019-10-24
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