Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Context-based device arbitration
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Application No.: US15691460Application Date: 2017-08-30
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Publication No.: US10546583B2Publication Date: 2020-01-28
- Inventor: Joseph White , Ravi Kiran Rachakonda , Vinodth Kumar Mohanam , Lalithkumar Rajendran , Deepak Uttam Shah , Maziyar Khorasani , Venkata Snehith Cherukuri
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: G10L15/26
- IPC: G10L15/26 ; G10L15/22 ; G10L25/84 ; G10L15/18 ; G10L15/28

Abstract:
This disclosure describes, in part, context-based device arbitration techniques to select a voice-enabled device from multiple voice-enabled devices to provide a response to a command included in a speech utterance of a user. In some examples, the context-driven arbitration techniques may include determining a ranked list of voice-enabled devices that are ranked based on audio signal metric values for audio signals generated by each voice-enabled device, and iteratively moving through the list to determine, based on device states of the voice-enabled devices, whether one of the voice-enabled devices can perform an action responsive to the command. If the voice-enabled devices that detected the speech utterance are unable to perform the action responsive to the command, all other voice-enabled devices associated with an account may be analyzed to determine whether one of the other voice-enabled devices can perform the action responsive to the command in the speech utterance.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190066670A1 CONTEXT-BASED DEVICE ARBITRATION Public/Granted day:2019-02-28
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