Apple Inc.

Erik Marchi

Sachin S Kajarekar

Chaitanya Mannemala

Saurabh Adya

Barry-John Theobald

Srikanth Vishnubhotla

Ahmed S Hussen Abdelaziz

Seyedmahdad Mirsamadi

Ahmed H Tewfik

Alexander W Churchill

Ognjen Rudovic

Pranay Dighe

An example process includes: receiving a speech input representing a user utterance; determining, based on a textual representation of the speech input, a first score corresponding to a type of the user utterance; determining, based on the textual representation of the speech input, a second score representing a correspondence between the user utterance and a domain recognized by a digital assistant; determining, based on the first score and the second score, whether the speech input is intended for the digital assistant; in accordance with a determination that the speech input is intended for the digital assistant: initiating, by the digital assistant, a task based on the speech input; and providing an output indicative of the initiated task.

Determining whether speech input is intended for a digital assistant

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Zurich, Switzerland

Erik Marchi