VOICE IDENTIFICATION IN DIGITAL ASSISTANT SYSTEMS

Patent №

US 11,657,813

Granted

2023-05-23

Filed 2020

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

4

nlp · speech · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17032676

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example method includes receiving, from one or more external electronic devices, a plurality of speaker profiles for a plurality of users; receiving a natural language speech input; determining, based on comparing the natural language speech input to the plurality of speaker profiles: a first likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a first user of the plurality of users; and a second likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a second user of the plurality of users; determining whether the first likelihood and the second likelihood are within a first threshold; and in accordance with determining that the first likelihood and the second likelihood are not within the first threshold: providing a response to the natural language speech input, the response being personalized for the first user.

Natural languageSpeechPlanningAI hardwareG10L 15/22G10L 17/08G06F 3/167G06F 21/32G10L 15/18G10L 17/00G10L 17/14G10L 17/04+3 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.97
Knowledge representation0.19
Machine learning0.12
Vision0.10
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 557020918

Assignors

PETERSON, COREY J., PECK, JESSICA, BISWAS, ANUMITA, SIMMONDS, HARRY

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

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