US 12,437,761 B2
Group hotwords
Matthew Sharifi, Kilchberg (CH); and Victor Carbune, Zürich (CH)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/535,701.
Application 18/535,701 is a continuation of application No. 17/118,687, filed on Dec. 11, 2020, granted, now 11,862,155.
Prior Publication US 2024/0105178 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01); G10L 17/24 (2013.01)
CPC G10L 15/22 (2013.01) [G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2013.01); G10L 17/24 (2013.01); G10L 2015/088 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method executed on data processing hardware of a first assistant-enabled device (AED) that causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:
receiving a voice input from the user requesting a digital assistant to enable a group hotword and assign the group hotword to a selected group of AEDs associated with a user, the selected group of AEDs comprising the first AED and one or more other AEDs;
performing, using a speech recognizer, speech recognition on the voice input to generate an automated speech recognition (ASR) result for the voice input;
performing query interpretation on the ASR result for the voice input to identify a group hotword query that specifies a name of the group hotword to enable and each AED in the selected group of AEDs to be assigned the group hotword; and
based on the query interpretation performed on the ASR result for the voice input, assigning the group hotword to the selected group of AEDs, each AED in the selected group of AEDs configured to wake-up from a low-power state when the group hotword is detected in streaming audio by at least one of the AEDs in the selected group of AEDs.