Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Rawles LLC

Gregory Michael Hart

Jeffrey P Bezos

Scott Ian Blanksteen

Brian Alexander Oliver

Christo Frank Devaraj

Ian W Freed

Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar

John Daniel Thimsen

William Spencer Worley, Iii

Ran Mokady

Charles S Rogers, Iii

Julien George Beguin

Meng Li

Eric Alan Breitbard

Robert Steven Murdock

Michael Douglas McQueen

Robert David Owen

Allan Timothy Lindsay

Jeffrey Penrod Adams

Rajiv Ramachandran

Robert Vaughan Williams

Steven Todd Rabuchin

Gilles Jean Roger Belin

Vikram Kumar Gundeti

Frederic Johan Georges Deramat

Peter Paul Henri Carbon

Christopher Green

Marc Rene Walliser

Giles David Matthew McWilliam

Kenneth Mark Karakotsios

Sun Joo Han

William Folwell Barton

David A Limp

James Alexander Stanton

Venkatesh Kancharla

Christopher Geiger Parker

Aaron Takayanagi Barnet

Nawdesh Uppal

Adrian Hurditch

Reza Abdollahi

Jonathan A Jenkins

Michael Martin George

Brett Richard Taylor

Samuel Scott Gigliotti

Rohit Prasad

Jae Pum Park

Bradley James Bozarth

Heinz-Dominik Langhammer

Kavitha Velusamy

Ryan Paul Thomas

Samuel Pike Hall, Vi

Nanyan Nicholls

Scott Southwood

Maria Christine Renz

Roman Yusufov

Hale Sostock

Ronald Edward Webber

Leo Benedict Baldwin

Elmore Eugene Pope

Isaac Scott Noble

Volodymyr V Ivanchenko

Spyridon Matsoukas

Arindam Mandal

Michael A Carr

Gregg Elliott Zehr

Stephen Frederick Potter

Felix F Antony

Steven Kessel

Marcello Typrin

Laurent E Sellier

Aparna Khare

Krishna Subramanian

Michal Jonathan Geller

Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy

Charles H Bell

Brian R Williams

Sundararajan Srinivasan

Vishwanathan Krishnamoorthy

Russell C Grandinetti

Hugh Finnan

Charles Peter Hoppe

Andrew Ryan Cooper

Melissa C Kirmayer

Frances Mhh Kwee

James Samuel Brown

Nadia Shouraboura

A speech recognition platform configured to receive an audio signal that includes speech from a user and perform automatic speech recognition (ASR) on the audio signal to identify ASR results. The platform may identify: (i) a domain of a voice command within the speech based on the ASR results and based on context information associated with the speech or the user, and (ii) an intent of the voice command. In response to identifying the intent, the platform may perform a corresponding action, such as streaming audio to the device, setting a reminder for the user, purchasing an item on behalf of the user, making a reservation for the user or launching an application for the user. The speech recognition platform, in combination with the device, may therefore facilitate efficient interactions between the user and a voice-controlled device.

Speech recognition services

Techniques for altering audio being output by a voice-controlled device, or another device, to enable more accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) by the voice-controlled device. For instance, a voice-controlled device may output audio within an environment using a speaker of the device. While outputting the audio, a microphone of the device may capture sound within the environment and may generate an audio signal based on the captured sound. The device may then analyze the audio signal to identify speech of a user within the signal, with the speech indicating that the user is going to provide a subsequent command to the device. Thereafter, the device may alter the output of the audio (e.g., attenuate the audio, pause the audio, switch from stereo to mono, etc.) to facilitate speech recognition of the user's subsequent command.

Altering audio to improve automatic speech recognition

A system that is capable of controlling multiple entertainment systems and/or speakers using voice commands. The system receives voice commands and may determine audio sources and speakers indicated by the voice commands. The system may generate audio data from the audio sources and may send the audio data to the speakers using multiple interfaces. For example, the system may send the audio data directly to the speakers using a network address, may send the audio data to the speakers via a voice-enabled device or may send the audio data to the speakers via a speaker controller. The system may generate output zones including multiple speakers and may associate input devices with speakers within the output zones. For example, the system may receive a voice command from an input device in an output zone and may reduce output audio generated by speakers in the output zone.

Processing spoken commands to control distributed audio outputs

Methods and systems for facilitating communications between shared electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a group account may be assigned to a shared electronic device. The group account may include one or more user accounts, where individuals associated with those user accounts may interact with the shared electronic device, and also may form a part of the group account. When a message is sent from one shared electronic device to another personal device or shared electronic device, the message may be indicated as being sent from the group account, as if the shared electronic device corresponds to its own separate account. In some embodiments, speaker identification processing may be employed to determine a speaker of the message and, if the speaker is able to be identified, the message may be sent from the corresponding speaker's user account instead of the shared electronic device's corresponding group account.

Messaging from a shared device

Techniques for receiving a voice command from a user and, in response, providing audible content to the user via a first device and providing visual content for the user via a second device. In some instances, the first device includes a microphone for generating audio signals that include user speech, as well as a speaker for outputting audible content in response to identified voice commands from the speech. However, the first device might not include a display for displaying graphical content. As such, the first device may be configured to identify devices that include displays and that are proximate to the first device. The first device may then instruct one or more of these other devices to output visual content associated with a user's voice command.

Providing content on multiple devices

An interactive system may be implemented in part by an audio device located within a user environment, which may accept speech commands from a user and may also interact with the user by means of generated speech. In order to improve performance of the interactive system, a user may use a separate device, such as a personal computer or mobile device, to access a graphical user interface that lists details of historical speech interactions. The graphical user interface may be configured to allow the user to provide feedback and/or corrections regarding the details of specific interactions.

User feedback for speech interactions

Systems and methods for sender profile and/or recipient profile disambiguation and/or confirmation are disclosed. In instances where a sender profile is not indicated by a user sending a communication from a communal device, heuristic data may be utilized to infer the sender profile. Similar heuristic data may also be used when selection of the sender profile is associated with a low confidence level. Heuristic data may also be used to infer the recipient profile when the user does not indicate the recipient profile or when selection of the recipient profile is associated with a low confidence. Various confirmations may result from the sender and recipient profile disambiguation.

Sender and recipient disambiguation

Techniques for selecting and providing highly targeted, interactive advertisements in a personalized manner. These advertisements may be audio-only advertisements, video-only advertisements, or advertisements that include both audio and video. As described below, advertisements may be selected and/or generated for a particular user based on an array of factors, including the user's interactions with multiple different client devices (e.g., a tablet computing device, a voice-controlled device, a television etc.), as well as additional behavior of the user. In some instances, the client devices may include a voice-controlled device that the user interacts with via voice commands and that provides audible content for output to the user.

Interactive, personalized advertising

An audio controlled assistant captures environmental noise and converts the environmental noise into audio signals. The audio signals are provided to a system which analyzes the audio signals for a plurality of audio prompts, which have been customized for the acoustic environment surrounding the audio controlled assistant by an acoustic modeling system. The system configured to detect the presence of an audio prompt in the audio signals and transmit instructions associated with the detected audio prompt to at least one of the audio controlled assistant or one or more cloud based services, in response.

System for recognizing and responding to environmental noises

Methods and systems for providing message playback using a shared electronic device is described herein. In response to receiving a request to output messages, a speech-processing system may determine a group account associated with a requesting device, and may determine messages stored by a message data store for the group account. Speaker identification processing may also be performed to determine a speaker of the request. A user account associated with the speaker, and messages stored for the user account, may be determined. A summary response indicating the user account's messages and the group account's message may then be generated such that the user account messages are identified prior to the group account's messages. The messages may then be analyzed to determine an appropriate voice user interface for the requester such that the playback of the messages using a shared electronic device is more natural and conversational.

Message playback using a shared device

A video display hub is mounted in a common household area such as a kitchen or family room. The display hub is configured to display various types of information for users in the area, such as weather, traffic updates, schedules, notes, messages, lists, news, etc. When the user is at a distance from the display hub, information is presented at a relatively low density, with a low level of granularity and detail in conjunction with large fonts, graphics, and icons. When the user is close to the display hub, information is presented at a relatively high density, with a high level of granularity and detail in conjunction with small fonts, graphics, and icons.

Variable density content display

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