公开(公告)号：US10916243B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-09

申请号：US15390944

申请日：2016-12-27

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy ,  Gregory Michael Hart ,  Samuel Scott Gigliotti ,  Scott Southwood ,  Ran Mokady ,  Hale Sostock ,  Roman Yusufov

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/58 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L17/22 ,  G10L17/06 ,  G10L13/08

Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating communications between shared electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a group account may be assigned to a shared electronic device. The group account may include one or more user accounts, where individuals associated with those user accounts may interact with the shared electronic device, and also may form a part of the group account. When a message is sent from one shared electronic device to another personal device or shared electronic device, the message may be indicated as being sent from the group account, as if the shared electronic device corresponds to its own separate account. In some embodiments, speaker identification processing may be employed to determine a speaker of the message and, if the speaker is able to be identified, the message may be sent from the corresponding speaker's user account instead of the shared electronic device's corresponding group account.

公开(公告)号：US20190325892A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-24

申请号：US16458932

申请日：2019-07-01

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Mario Chenier ,  Tony Roy Hardie ,  Nawdesh Uppal ,  Brian Oliver ,  Ran Mokady

IPC: G10L25/48 ,  G10L17/00 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: Methods and devices for causing a communications session between a first device and a second device to end based on lack of speech activity are described herein. In some embodiments, non-speech may be detected for both the first device and the second device. If the non-speech associated with the first device is determined to occur at a substantially same time as the non-speech associated with the second device, then this may indicate that no individuals are talking within earshot of their respective devices. Furthermore, the non-speech detected by the first device and the non-speech detected by the second device may both be of an amount of time that is greater than a predefined temporal threshold. If so, then the communications session may be caused to end because speech activity has not been detected by either device for more than the predefined temporal threshold.

公开(公告)号：US10339957B1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-02

申请号：US15385265

申请日：2016-12-20

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Mario Chenier ,  Tony Roy Hardie ,  Nawdesh Uppal ,  Brian Oliver ,  Ran Mokady

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L25/48 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G10L17/00

Abstract: Methods and devices for causing a communications session between a first device and a second device to end based on lack of speech activity are described herein. In some embodiments, non-speech may be detected for both the first device and the second device. If the non-speech associated with the first device is determined to occur at a substantially same time as the non-speech associated with the second device, then this may indicate that no individuals are talking within earshot of their respective devices. Furthermore, the non-speech detected by the first device and the non-speech detected by the second device may both be of an amount of time that is greater than a predefined temporal threshold. If so, then the communications session may be caused to end because speech activity has not been detected by either device for more than the predefined temporal threshold.

公开(公告)号：US10186266B1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-22

申请号：US15392810

申请日：2016-12-28

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Brian Oliver ,  Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar ,  Gregory Michael Hart ,  Ran Mokady

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L13/08 ,  G10L15/02 ,  G10L17/22 ,  G10L17/06

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing message playback using a shared electronic device is described herein. In response to receiving a request to output messages, a speech-processing system may determine a group account associated with a requesting device, and may determine messages stored by a message data store for the group account. Speaker identification processing may also be performed to determine a speaker of the request. A user account associated with the speaker, and messages stored for the user account, may be determined. A summary response indicating the user account's messages and the group account's message may then be generated such that the user account messages are identified prior to the group account's messages. The messages may then be analyzed to determine an appropriate voice user interface for the requester such that the playback of the messages using a shared electronic device is more natural and conversational.

公开(公告)号：US10157614B1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-18

申请号：US15392827

申请日：2016-12-28

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Brian Oliver ,  Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar ,  Gregory Michael Hart ,  Ran Mokady

IPC: G10L15/00 ,  G10L15/22 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/58 ,  G10L15/02 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L13/08 ,  G10L17/22 ,  G10L17/06 ,  G06F17/30

Abstract: Methods and systems for redirecting messages based on contextual information associated with the messages are described herein. In some embodiments, a first individual may speak an utterance including a message, where the utterance indicates a first recipient for the message. Audio data representing the utterance may be provided to a speech-processing system, which may performed automatic speech recognition processing, natural language understanding processing, and contextual recognition processing to the audio data. In some embodiments, the contextual recognition processing may determine that the message may be intended for a second recipient. If so, the speech-processing system may cause the message to be redirected to the second recipient, such that the second recipient may receive the message as opposed to the first recipient.

公开(公告)号：US20180061402A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-01

申请号：US15254359

申请日：2016-09-01

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Manish Kumar Dalmia ,  Tony Roy Hardie ,  Ran Mokady ,  Nick Ciubotariu ,  Sandra Lemon

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/18 ,  H04L29/08

CPC classification number: G10L15/22 ,  G06F17/2765 ,  G06F17/278 ,  G10L13/00 ,  G10L15/1822 ,  G10L17/22 ,  G10L17/24 ,  G10L2015/225 ,  G10L2015/227 ,  H04L67/306

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for escalating voice-based interactions via speech-controlled devices are described. Speech-controlled devices capture audio, including wakeword portions and payload portions, for sending to a server to relay messages between speech-controlled devices. In response to determining the occurrence of an escalation event, such as repeated messages between the same two devices, the system may automatically change a mode of a speech-controlled device, such as no longer requiring a wakeword, no longer requiring an indication of a desired recipient, or automatically connecting two speech-controlled devices in a voice-chat mode. In response to determining the occurrence of further escalation events, the system may initiate a real-time call between the speech-controlled devices.

公开(公告)号：US11721332B1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-08

申请号：US16860299

申请日：2020-04-28

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ran Mokady ,  Kris Jones ,  Vishnu Vijay ,  Mark Elliott ,  John Stephen Mintoft

IPC: G06Q30/0601 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06F16/9032 ,  G06Q20/12 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W4/40

CPC classification number: G10L15/22 ,  G06F3/167 ,  G06F16/90332 ,  G06Q20/12 ,  G06Q30/0601 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04W68/005 ,  B60K2370/736 ,  G10L2015/223

Abstract: In various embodiments, a voice command is transmitted while the user is performing an activity. The user’s activity is determined, along with follow on actions for the request. If the user is performing an interaction-limiting activity, subsequent actions may be presented in a simplified display to reduce the likelihood that user interacts with the display. Additionally, certain follow on actions may be considered complex. If a complex follow on action occurs during an interaction-limiting activity, the request may be flagged and delayed until the user has completed the interaction-limiting activity.

公开(公告)号：US11657812B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-23

申请号：US17030445

申请日：2020-09-24

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Brian Oliver ,  Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar ,  Gregory Michael Hart ,  Ran Mokady

IPC: G10L15/00 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G06F16/683 ,  H04L51/226 ,  H04L67/63 ,  G10L13/08 ,  G10L15/02 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L17/06 ,  G10L17/22 ,  G10L17/00 ,  H04L51/02

CPC classification number: G10L15/22 ,  G06F3/167 ,  G06F16/685 ,  G10L13/08 ,  G10L15/02 ,  G10L15/1815 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G10L17/06 ,  G10L17/22 ,  H04L51/226 ,  H04L67/63 ,  G10L17/00 ,  G10L2015/223 ,  H04L51/02

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing message playback using a shared electronic device is described herein. In response to receiving a request to output messages, a speech-processing system may determine a group account associated with a requesting device, and may determine messages stored by a message data store for the group account. Speaker identification processing may also be performed to determine a speaker of the request. A user account associated with the speaker, and messages stored for the user account, may be determined. A summary response indicating the user account's messages and the group account's message may then be generated such that the user account messages are identified prior to the group account's messages. The messages may then be analyzed to determine an appropriate voice user interface for the requester such that the playback of the messages using a shared electronic device is more natural and conversational.

公开(公告)号：US20220165268A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-26

申请号：US17583672

申请日：2022-01-25

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Manish Kumar Dalmia ,  Tony Roy Hardie ,  Ran Mokady ,  Nick Ciubotariu ,  Sandra Lemon

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  H04L51/224 ,  H04L51/10 ,  G10L15/30 ,  H04L67/306 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06F40/35

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for outputting indications regarding voice-based interactions are described. A first speech-controlled device detects spoken audio corresponding to recipient information. The first device captures the audio and sends audio data corresponding to the captured audio to a server. The server determines a second speech-controlled device of the recipient and sends a signal to the recipient's second speech-controlled device representing a message is forthcoming. The recipient's second speech-controlled device outputs and indication representing a message is forthcoming.

公开(公告)号：US20210110823A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-15

申请号：US17030445

申请日：2020-09-24

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Christo Frank Devaraj ,  Brian Oliver ,  Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar ,  Gregory Michael Hart ,  Ran Mokady

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G06F16/683 ,  H04L12/58 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G10L13/08 ,  G10L15/02 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L17/06 ,  G10L17/22

Abstract: Methods and systems for providing message playback using a shared electronic device is described herein. In response to receiving a request to output messages, a speech-processing system may determine a group account associated with a requesting device, and may determine messages stored by a message data store for the group account. Speaker identification processing may also be performed to determine a speaker of the request. A user account associated with the speaker, and messages stored for the user account, may be determined. A summary response indicating the user account's messages and the group account's message may then be generated such that the user account messages are identified prior to the group account's messages. The messages may then be analyzed to determine an appropriate voice user interface for the requester such that the playback of the messages using a shared electronic device is more natural and conversational.