Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Joe Virgil Fernandez

Timothy Thomas Gray

Peter Van Tuyl Bentley

Kynan Dylan Antos

Benjamin Lee Shepherd

Jenny Toi Wah Lam

Jeremy Richard Hill

Shirin Saleem

Jonhenry A Righter

Kelly James Vanee

Michal Grzegorz Kurpanik

Vijayabaskar Gangadaran

Mallory McManamon

Kavya Ravikumar

Sarveshwar Nigam

Shailesh Srivastava

A dock device connects participating devices such as a tablet device and an audio activated device, allowing them to operate as a single device. These participating devices may be associated with different accounts, each account being associated with particular 'speechlets' or data processing functions. A natural language understanding (NLU) system uses NLU models to process text obtained from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to determine a set of possible intents. A second set of possible intents may then be generated that is limited to those possible intents that correspond to the speechlets associated with the docked device. The intents within the second set of possible intents are ranked, and the highest ranked intent may be deemed to be the intent of the user. Command data corresponding to the highest ranked intent may be generated and used to perform the action associated with that intent.

Natural language understanding with affiliated devices

Speech-controlled searching and browsing for content using speech-controlled devices, or other input-limited devices, is described. A user may audibly indicate to a speech-controlled device whether the user wants to search or browse for content, along with a topic of the content/results to be retrieved. A server, located remotely from the speech-controlled device determines an appropriate endpoint device for displaying results of the requested search or browse. The server also determines an appropriate content source for the requested content, and sends a request for the content to the content source. The server receives search or browse results from the content source and forwards them to the determined endpoint device.

Output of content based on speech-based searching and browsing requests

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Joe Virgil Fernandez