Portable Acoustical Unit for Voice Recognition

Patent №

US 9,704,489

Granted

2017-07-11

Filed 2015

Owner

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14947139

A portable acoustic unit is adapted for insertion into an electrical receptacle. The portable acoustic unit has an integrated microphone and a wireless network interface to an automation controller. The portable acoustic unit detects spoken voice commands from users in the vicinity of the electrical receptacle. The portable acoustic unit merely plugs into a conventional electrical outlet to provide an extremely simple means of voice control through a home or business.

SpeechH04L 12/2838G10L 15/30G10L 17/00G10L 17/26H04L 65/65H04M 1/6041H04M 19/04H04R 3/04+7 more

AI classification

Speech1.00
Vision0.11
Natural language0.08
Machine learning0.01
Planning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.

assignment · 371170863

Assignors

HAIDER, NAFIZ, NEWMAN, ROSS, PATTERSON, KRISTIN, RISLEY, THOMAS, STEPHENSON, CURTIS, VAUGHT, DAVID

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

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