Apple Inc.

Charles Srisuwananukorn

Thomas R Gruber

Justin G Binder

David A Carson

Yoon Kim

Gregory R Chapman

Hong M Chen

Devang Kalidas Naik

Gordon J Freedman

Lia T Napolitano

Gunnar Evermann

Henry Graham Mason

Curtis Rothert

Shaun Eric Williams

Liam Weiner

Eric Albert

Joseph Sokol

Matthew G Waston

Thomas Brogan Duffy

Scott James Forstall

Gregory B Novick

Cahya Adiansyah Masputra

John Joseph Iarocci

Joseph Sokol, Jr

Richard Warren Schreyer

Neil Gareth Crane

Damien Pascal Sorresso

David W Goodwin

Matthew G Watson

Lucia Elena Ballard

Darren S Litzinger

Christopher Marcellino

Michael Van Milligan

David B Myszewski

David William Goodwin

Gregory Novick

John Iarocci

Scott Forstall

Lucia Ballard

Darren Litzinger

Cahya Masputra

David Myszewski

Richard Schreyer

Damien Sorresso

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to provide extension of digital assistant services are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors, receiving, from a first user, a first speech input representing a user request. The method further includes obtaining an identity of the first user; and in accordance with the user identity, providing a representation of the user request to at least one of a second electronic device or a third electronic device. The method further includes receiving, based on a determination of whether the second electronic device or the third electronic device, or both, is to provide the response to the first electronic device, the response to the user request from the second electronic device or the third electronic device. The method further includes providing a representation of the response to the first user.

Far-field extension of digital assistant services for providing a notification of an event to a user

Far-field extension for digital assistant services

Digital assistant services based on device capabilities

The method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. A first speech input including at least one word is received. A first phonetic representation of the at least one word is determined, the first phonetic representation comprising a first set of phonemes selected from a speech recognition phonetic alphabet. The first set of phonemes is mapped to a second set of phonemes to generate a second phonetic representation, where the second set of phonemes is selected from a speech synthesis phonetic alphabet. The second phonetic representation is stored in association with a text string corresponding to the at least one word.

System and method for user-specified pronunciation of words for speech synthesis and recognition

Services for a personal electronic device are provided through which a form of background processing or multitasking is supported. The disclosed services permit user applications to take advantage of background processing without significant negative consequences to a user's experience of the foreground process or the personal electronic device's power resources. To effect the disclosed multitasking, one or more of a number of operational restrictions may be enforced. By way of example, thread priority levels may be overlapped between the foreground and background states. In addition, system resource availability may be restricted based on whether a process is receiving user input. In some instances, an application may be suspended rather than being placed into the background state. Implementation of the disclosed services may be substantially transparent to the executing user applications and, in some cases, may be performed without the user application's explicit cooperation.

Opportunistic multitasking

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Charles Srisuwananukorn