ACCESSING MULTIPLE VIRTUAL PERSONAL ASSISTANTS (VPA) FROM A SINGLE DEVICE

Patent №

US 10,685,656

Granted

2020-06-16

Filed 2016

Owner

BOSE CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

4

nlp · speech · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15253034

The technology described in this document can be embodied in a computer-implemented method that includes presenting a first user-interface that includes a user-selectable menu of multiple virtual personal assistant (VPA) service providers, and receiving a user-selection identifying a particular VPA service provider. The method also includes receiving a first signal representing input speech data, and processing the first signal to generate a first electronic file that includes at least a portion of the input speech data, the first electronic file being generated in accordance with a specification of the particular VPA service provider. The method further includes transmitting the first electronic file to one or more remote computing devices associated with the particular VPA service provider, receiving at least a second electronic file including a response to the input speech data, and causing an acoustic transducer to generate an acoustic output based on the second electronic file.

Natural languageSpeechPlanningAI hardwareG10L 15/30G06F 3/0482G10L 15/22G10L 15/28G10L 17/22G10L 15/08G10L 2015/223

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language1.00
Planning0.97
AI hardware0.94
Evolutionary computation0.18
Knowledge representation0.05
Vision0.03
Machine learning0.01

Ownership

BOSE CORPORATION

assignment · 405280907

Assignors

PATIL, NAGANAGOUDA B., TODMAN, ANDRE, CRAMER, BERNICE A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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