US 11,893,350 B2
Detecting continuing conversations with computing devices
Nathan David Howard, Mountain View, CA (US); Gabor Simko, Santa Clara, CA (US); Andrei Giurgiu, Zurich (CH); Behshad Behzadi, Freienbach (CH); and Marcin M. Nowak-Przygodzki, Bäch (CH)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/902,543.
Application 17/902,543 is a continuation of application No. 16/698,350, filed on Nov. 27, 2019, granted, now 11,436,411.
Application 16/698,350 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2019/019829, filed on Feb. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0414333 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 40/284 (2020.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06N 5/02 (2023.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 40/284 (2020.01) [G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); G06F 16/90335 (2019.01); G06N 5/02 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, via a microphone of a computing device, audio data of a spoken utterance, of a user, that omits any hotword;
determining that the spoken utterance does not include any hotword indicating that the user is addressing the spoken utterance to the computing device;
in response to determining that the spoken utterance does not include any hotword:
determining whether a transcription, of the spoken utterance, includes a query that is directed to content that is displayed via a user-facing display of the computing device; and
based on determining that the transcription, of the spoken utterance, includes the query that is directed to the content that is displayed via the user-facing display:
causing the computing device to perform an operation that is responsive to the spoken utterance.