ACTIVATION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE VOICE ASSISTANTS

Patent №

US 11,626,114

Granted

2023-04-11

Filed 2021

Owner

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

AI components

2

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17533615

Systems and methods include activation of a first voice assistant application to execute a first user dialog session, the first application associated with a first voice keyword and, while the first application is active and executing the first session, reception of second audio signals representing a second voice keyword associated with a second voice assistant application, determination, in response to reception of the second audio signals, that the first application is uninterruptable, wherein the second application remains inactive in response to reception of the second audio signals, reception of a signal from the first application indicating that the first application is interruptable, reception of third audio signals representing the second keyword and, in response to reception of the third audio signals, determination that the first application is interruptable and transmission of an activation signal to the second application to activate the second application and execute a second user dialog session.

Natural languageSpeechG06F 9/453G10L 15/22G06F 3/167G10L 15/08G10L 15/32G10L 2015/088G10L 2015/223

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language1.00
Planning0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

assignment · 581950673

Assignors

TRUFINESCU, ADINA MAGDALENA, BRUSH, ALICE JANE BERNHEIM, ENDRES, KEVIN J., STIFELMAN, LISA J.

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