HOTWORD SUPPRESSION

Patent №

US 10,692,496

Granted

2020-06-23

Filed 2019

Owner

GOOGLE LLC

AI components

5

ml · nlp · speech · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16418415

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for suppressing hotwords are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data corresponding to playback of an utterance. The actions further include providing the audio data as an input to a model (i) that is configured to determine whether a given audio data sample includes an audio watermark and (ii) that was trained using watermarked audio data samples that each include an audio watermark sample and non-watermarked audio data samples that do not each include an audio watermark sample. The actions further include receiving, from the model, data indicating whether the audio data includes the audio watermark. The actions further include, based on the data indicating whether the audio data includes the audio watermark, determining to continue or cease processing of the audio data.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechPlanningAI hardwareG10L 15/22G06F 3/167G10L 15/063G10L 15/08G10L 15/30G10L 17/00G10L 17/22G10L 25/51+3 more

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Planning0.78
AI hardware0.76
Vision0.36
Knowledge representation0.10
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE LLC

assignment · 495170341

Assignors

GRUENSTEIN, ALEXANDER H., JOGLEKAR, TARAL PRADEEP, PEDDINTI, VIJAYADITYA, BACCHIANI, MICHIEL A.U.

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