Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Jacob Michael Simpson

Kurt W Piersol

Vikram Kumar Gundeti

James David Meyers

David Robert Thomas

Peter Spalding VanLund

Andrew Christopher Miles

Kurt Wesley Piersol

A speech-based system includes an audio device in a user premises and a network-based service that supports use of the audio device by multiple applications. The audio device may be directed to play audio content such as music, audio books, etc. The audio device may also be directed to interact with a user through speech. The network-based service monitors event messages received from the audio device to determine which of the multiple applications currently has speech focus. When receiving speech from a user, the service first offers the corresponding meaning to the application, if any, that currently has primary speech focus. If there is no application that currently has primary speech focus, or if the application having primary speech focus is not able to respond to the meaning, the service then offers the user meaning to the application that currently has secondary speech focus.

Application focus in speech-based systems

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Jacob Michael Simpson