Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Identification of utterance subjects
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Application No.: US14642365Application Date: 2015-03-09
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Publication No.: US09240187B2Publication Date: 2016-01-19
- Inventor: Fred Torok , Frédéric Johan Georges Deramat , Vikram Kumar Gundeti
- 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: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
- Main IPC: G10L21/00
- IPC: G10L21/00 ; G10L25/00 ; G10L13/00 ; G10L15/00 ; G10L15/26 ; G06F17/30 ; G10L15/08

Abstract:
Features are disclosed for generating markers for elements or other portions of an audio presentation so that a speech processing system may determine which portion of the audio presentation a user utterance refers to. For example, an utterance may include a pronoun with no explicit antecedent. The marker may be used to associate the utterance with the corresponding content portion for processing. The markers can be provided to a client device with a text-to-speech (“TTS”) presentation. The markers may then be provided to a speech processing system along with a user utterance captured by the client device. The speech processing system, which may include automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) modules and/or natural language understanding (“NLU”) modules, can generate hints based on the marker. The hints can be provided to the ASR and/or NLU modules in order to aid in processing the meaning or intent of a user utterance.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150179175A1 IDENTIFICATION OF UTTERANCE SUBJECTS Public/Granted day:2015-06-25
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