Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Daniel Paul Ryan

Kintan Dilipkumar Brahmbhatt

Brandon Scott Durham

Rickesh Pal

Daren Gill

Toby Ray Latin-Stoermer

Jason Christopher Hall

Benjamin Lee Shepherd

Jonathan Barnett Feinstein

Matthew Dominick Mahar

Yun Suk Paik

Jane Meng

Kaan Aykac

Approaches provide for a voice communications device to control, refine, or otherwise manage the playback of media content in response to instructions, such as spoken instructions. For example, the voice communications device receives input data associated with a command, such as a request to begin media playback. Accounts corresponding to users associated with the command are identified and one or more refinements extracted from the input data are used to filter content, such as from respective content catalogs or via trained models associated with the users. Determined content is generated that includes content from each of the content catalogs or trained models associated with the users. Thereafter, the voice communications device can initiate media playback.

System and method for content playback

Approaches provide for using a voice communications device to control, refine, or otherwise manage the playback of media content in response to a spoken instruction. For example, the voice communications device can receive a request to refine and/or initiate the playback of media content, such as music, news, audio books, audio broadcasts, and other such content. Audio input data that includes the request can be received by the voice communications device and an application executing on the voice communications device or otherwise in communication with the voice communications device can analyze the audio input data to determine how to carry out the request. The application can determine whether there is an active play queue of media content configured to play using the voice communications device. In the situation where there is no media content being played using the voice communications device, the application can determine media content using information in the request. In the situation where there is an active play queue of media content, the information can be used to refine the play queue. Thereafter, the application can cause the media content associated with the active play queue to play using the voice-enable communications device.

Refining media playback

Audio data is received, for example from a voice communications device, and using commands and contexts in the audio data, playback of a content item such as a song can be accomplished. For example, a user can skip ahead in a song, play a song, find a song, and otherwise perform control functions on a device with no screen that give the user contextual control over the song that is playing or is to be played.

Approaches for voice-activated audio commands

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