Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Andrew Christopher Miles

Vikram Kumar Gundeti

Kurt W Piersol

James David Meyers

David Robert Thomas

Frédéric Johan Georges Deramat

Peter Spalding VanLund

Vikas Jain

Cory Curtis Manthei

Jacob Michael Simpson

Kurt Wesley Piersol

An open framework for computing devices to dispatch voice-based interactions to supporting applications. Applications are selected on a trial-and-error basis to find an application able to handle the voice interaction. Dispatching to the applications may be performed without a determination of meaning conveyed in the interaction, with meaning determined by the individual applications. Once an application acts upon a voice interaction, that application may be given first-right-of-refusal for subsequent voice interactions.

Voice interaction application selection

A speech-based system includes an audio device in a user premises and a network-based service that supports use of the audio device by multiple applications. The audio device may be directed to play audio content such as music, audio books, etc. The audio device may also be directed to interact with a user through speech. The network-based service monitors event messages received from the audio device to determine which of the multiple applications currently has speech focus. When receiving speech from a user, the service first offers the corresponding meaning to the application, if any, that currently has primary speech focus. If there is no application that currently has primary speech focus, or if the application having primary speech focus is not able to respond to the meaning, the service then offers the user meaning to the application that currently has secondary speech focus.

Application focus in speech-based systems

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Andrew Christopher Miles