22 patents
Utility
Adapting an utterance cut-off period based on parse prefix detection
2 Jan 24
A processing system detects a period of non-voice activity and compares its duration to a cutoff period.
Patricia Pozon Aguayo, Jennifer Hee Young Zhang, Jonah Probell
Filed: 18 Mar 22
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Virtual assistant domain functionality
5 Dec 23
Aspects include methods, systems, and computer-program products providing virtual assistant domain functionality.
Kamyar Mohajer, Keyvan Mohajer, Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Pranav Singh
Filed: 22 Jul 21
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Using semantic grammar extensibility for collective artificial intelligence
28 Nov 23
Support for natural language expressions is provided by the use of semantic grammars that describe the structure of expressions in that grammar and that construct the meaning of a corresponding natural language expression.
Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Christopher S. Wilson, Keyvan Mohajer
Filed: 16 Jul 21
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Training a device specific acoustic model
28 Nov 23
Developers can configure custom acoustic models by providing audio files with custom recordings.
Keyvan Mohajer, Mehul Patel
Filed: 11 Jan 22
Utility
Support for grammar inflections within a software development framework
24 Oct 23
A natural language understanding server includes grammars specified in a modified extended Backus-Naur form (MEBNF) that includes an agglutination metasymbol not supported by conventional EBNF grammar parsers, as well as an agglutination preprocessor.
Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Seth Taron
Filed: 14 Sep 21
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Building a natural language understanding application using a received electronic record containing programming code including an interpret-block, an interpret-statement, a pattern expression and an action statement
3 Oct 23
A method of building a natural language understanding application is provided.
Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Seyed M. Emami, Chris Wilson, Keyvan Mohajer
Filed: 8 Apr 21
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Meaning inference from speech audio
26 Sep 23
A system and method invoke virtual assistant action, which may comprise an argument.
Sudharsan Krishnaswamy, Maisy Wieman, Jonah Probell
Filed: 3 Mar 22
Utility
Neural speech-to-meaning
5 Sep 23
A neural speech-to-meaning system is trained on speech audio expressing specific intents.
Sudharsan Krishnaswamy, Maisy Wieman, Jonah Probell
Filed: 4 Dec 19
Utility
Content filtering in media playing devices
22 Aug 23
Various approaches relate to user defined content filtering in media playing devices of undesirable content represented in stored and real-time content from content providers.
Thor S. Khov, Terry Kong
Filed: 12 Apr 21
Utility
Natural language grammar improvement
25 Apr 23
A method for configuring natural language grammars is provided to include identifying a first transcription having a first automatic speech recognition (ASR) score and a first natural language understanding (NLU) score and identifying a second transcription having a second ASR score and a second NLU score.
Angela Rose Howard
Filed: 20 Aug 19
Utility
Loudspeaker with transmitter
11 Apr 23
A speaker device includes an electroacoustic transducer configured to convert an audio signal into a set of sound waves and a transmitter configured to transmit an electromagnetic signal that carries the audio signal for receipt at distances limited to an audibility range of the set of sound waves.
Karl Stahl
Filed: 31 Mar 21
Utility
Voice morphing apparatus having adjustable parameters
7 Mar 23
A voice morphing apparatus having adjustable parameters is described.
Steve Pearson
Filed: 11 Jan 20
Utility
Differential spatial rendering of audio sources
21 Feb 23
Methods and systems for intuitive spatial audio rendering with improved intelligibility are disclosed.
Bernard Mont-Reynaud
Filed: 21 Mar 22
Utility
Neural network training from private data
10 Jan 23
Training and enhancement of neural network models, such as from private data, are described.
Zili Li, Asif Amirguliyev, Jonah Probell
Filed: 17 Dec 19
Utility
Sidebar conversations
27 Dec 22
A system and a method are disclosed that enable sidebar conversations between two or more attendees that are participating in a primary or main meeting.
Timothy P Stonehocker
Filed: 21 Jun 21
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Text-to-speech adapted by machine learning
20 Dec 22
Machine learned models take in vectors representing desired behaviors and generate voice vectors that provide the parameters for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis.
Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Monika Almudafar-Depeyrot
Filed: 14 Jan 20
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Concept-based augmentation of queries for applying a buyer-defined function
4 Oct 22
Original concepts obtained from a query may be augmented with additional concepts connected to the original concepts in a concept graph in response to determining that the original concepts did not match a sufficient number of bid functions.
Keyvan Mohajer, Scott Halstvedt
Filed: 16 Sep 19
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Method and system using phoneme embedding
9 Aug 22
A system and method for creating an embedded phoneme map from a corpus of speech in accordance with a multiplicity of acoustic features of the speech.
Serena Caterina Scuderi, Gioia Zoli, Sarah Beth Hotung
Filed: 16 Aug 19
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Neural acoustic model
19 Jul 22
An audio processing system is described.
Maisy Wieman, Andrew Carl Spencer, Zìlì L{hacek over (i)}, Cristina Vasconcelos
Filed: 13 Feb 20
Utility
System and method for controlling an application using natural language communication
19 Jul 22
A system and method are disclosed for setting up a communication link between a device or application and a system with a controller.
Timothy P. Stonehocker, Kathleen Worthington McMahon
Filed: 19 Apr 19