US 12,190,875 B1
Preemptive wakeword detection
Eli Joshua Fidler, Toronto (CA); Aaron Challenner, Cambridge, MA (US); Zoe Adams, Orange County, CA (US); Sree Hari Krishnan Parthasarathi, Toronto (CA); and Gengshen Fu, Sharon, MA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/490,572.
Int. Cl. G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01); G10L 15/187 (2013.01)
CPC G10L 15/22 (2013.01) [G10L 15/02 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2013.01); G10L 15/187 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device, comprising:
one or more processors; and
non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving first audio data representing a first user utterance captured by a microphone of the device;
determining, from a comparison of a first audio signature of the first audio data to a stored audio signature corresponding to a first part of a wakeword, that a portion of the first audio data corresponds to the first part of the wakeword, the wakeword, when detected, causing the device to send the first audio data to a speech processing system, the first part of the wakeword being one or more starting syllables of the wakeword;
performing, in response to the portion of the first audio data corresponding to the first part of the wakeword, automatic speech recognition (ASR) on the first audio data such that first ASR data is generated; and
determining that an entirety of the wakeword is detected in the first audio data.