Years active
2022
Total patents
2
Most recent
2022
Frequent collaborator
Roland Maas
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2 patents, in 2022
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How Smart Speakers Know You're Talking to Them After a Command
This patent describes how a smart speaker system can tell if follow-up speech is meant for it, even without a "wake word," by analyzing voice activity and partial speech recognition results using an AI model.
How Voice Assistants Recognize Who is Talking
This patent describes a system that uses a recorded voice sample to identify if new speech comes from the same person, allowing voice assistants to only respond to specific users.
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