Apple Inc.

Harry Simmonds

Thomas M Alsina

Edward T Schmidt

Benjamin S Phipps

Nicholas James Paulson

Anumita Biswas

Sachin S Kajarekar

Szu-Wen Huang

Jason P Ketterman

Jessica J Peck

Chaitanya Mannemala

Corey J Peterson

Charles Magahern

Elena Leyfman

Cody D Jorgensen

Andrew J Sinesio

Cesar De Camargo Barscevicius

Erik Marchi

Keith G Henrickson

Owen Imholte

Stephen H Shum

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example method includes receiving, from one or more external electronic devices, a plurality of speaker profiles for a plurality of users; receiving a natural language speech input; determining, based on comparing the natural language speech input to the plurality of speaker profiles: a first likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a first user of the plurality of users; and a second likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a second user of the plurality of users; determining whether the first likelihood and the second likelihood are within a first threshold; and in accordance with determining that the first likelihood and the second likelihood are not within the first threshold: providing a response to the natural language speech input, the response being personalized for the first user.

Voice identification in digital assistant systems

Techniques are disclosed for managing media playback among an ad hoc group of playback devices. Such techniques may involve building a session among the playback devices in which playback devices communicate information regarding their playback capabilities. Based on the playback capabilities of the devices, playback mode may be derived for the session. Playback operations may be synchronized among the devices that are members of the session, in which devices receive identification of asset(s) to be rendered pursuant to the playback operation and timing information of playback of the asset. The devices may stream the playback assets directly from media sources when they are capable of doing so. In this manner, communication resources are conserved.

Encapsulating and synchronizing state interactions between devices

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Harry Simmonds