Apple Inc.

Gagan A Gupta

Benjamin S Phipps

Kurt W Piersol

Xinyuan Huang

Heriberto Nieto

Rebecca P Fish

William M York

Brandon J Newendorp

Anumita Biswas

Kisun You

An example method includes, at an electronic device: receiving an indication of a notification; in accordance with receiving the indication of the notification: obtaining one or more data streams from one or more sensors; determining, based on the one or more data streams, whether a user associated with the electronic device is speaking; and in accordance with a determination that the user is not speaking: causing an output associated with the notification to be provided.

Spoken notifications

Systems and processes for providing a virtual assistant service are provided. In accordance with one or more examples, a method includes receiving, from an accessory device communicatively coupled to the first electronic device, a representation of a speech input representing a user request. The method further includes detecting a second electronic device and transmitting, from the first electronic device, a representation of the user request and data associated with the detected second electronic device to a third electronic device. The method further includes receiving, from the third electronic device, a determination of whether a task is to be performed by the second electronic device in accordance with the user request; and in accordance with a determination that a task is to be performed by the second electronic device, requesting the second electronic device to performed the task in accordance with the user request.

Virtual assistant operations in multi-device environments

Virtual assistant operation in multi-device environments

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Gagan A Gupta