Device selection for providing a response
US9875081B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 21, 2015 |
| Grant date | Jan 23, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 21, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L2015/226
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system may use multiple speech interface devices to interact with a user by speech. All or a portion of the speech interface devices may detect a user utterance and may initiate speech processing to determine a meaning or intent of the utterance. Within the speech processing, arbitration is employed to select one of the multiple speech interface devices to respond to the user utterance. Arbitration may be based in part on metadata that directly or indirectly indicates the proximity of the user to the devices, and the device that is deemed to be nearest the user may be selected to respond to the user utterance.
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