Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Apple Inc.

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Google Inc.

Ricoh Corporation

Kurt W Piersol

Jonathan J Hull

Peter E Hart

Jamey Graham

John W Barrus

Stephen R Savitzky

Dar-Shyang Lee

Gregory J Wolff

Berna Erol

Michael J Gormish

Bradley J Rhodes

Sergey Chemishkian

Edward L Schwartz

Kenneth F Gudan

Michael Alan Pogue

Ken Gudan

James David Meyers

Kim McCall

Kanae Amemiya

Ryan M Orr

Daniel J Mandel

Richard D Kosoglow

Martin P Boliek

Benjamin S Phipps

Xinyuan Huang

Juan Carlos Garcia

Heriberto Nieto

Mark Ludwig Stern

Stephen Weyl

David W Curbow

David Canfield Smith

Rebecca P Fish

Gagan A Gupta

Kevin Ridout

William M York

Gabriel Beddingfield

Kiyoshi Suzuki

Edward Dietz Crump

Michael Alan Baxter

Robert Ayrapetian

John F Cullen

Mark Peairs

Kavitha Velusamy

Toru Matsuda

Daniel G Van Olst

Max E McFarland

Aimee Piercy

Xu Liu

Marcello Typrin

Yuwen Su

Preethi Narayanan

Tatsuo Ito

Arnaud Jean-Louis Charton

Akio Urabe

Olusanya Temitope Soyannwo

Shamitha Somashekar

Daja Phillips

Ame Elliott

Tatsuya Inagaki

Paul S McCarthy

Shirin Saleem

Hirosuke Kainuma

Jeffrey W Kreegar

Tina Yung-Ting Chen

Shinsuke Teramura

Daniel Jordan

George Corrick

Gabe Beddingfield

Michael Thompson

Jennifer Chaffee

Bert Rankin

Mark Minshull

Tony Hammer

Kathrin Berkner

Vikram Kumar Gundeti

Timothy Robert Oriol

Jorge Moraleda

Geoffrey Nudd

David Robert Thomas

Timothee Bailloeul

Jessica J Peck

Peter Spalding VanLund

Michael G E Griffin

Nathan Taylor

Shui Wing Lo

Greg Wolff

Lewis N Perkins

Luca Simonelli

Cedric Bray

Andrew Christopher Miles

Gabriel Johnson

Bradly Rhodes

M Kim McCall

Rahul Nair

Steve Savitzky

Richard C Rodseth

Joshua B Susser

Craig Carper

Paul S Mccarthy

Helmut Garstenauer

Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory, while an application is open on the electronic device: receiving a spoken input including a command, determining whether the command matches at least a portion of a metadata associated with an action of the application, and in accordance with a determination that the command matches at least the portion of the metadata associated with the action of the application, associating the command with the action, storing the association of the command with the action for subsequent use with the application by the digital assistant, and executing the action with the application.

Digital assistant control of applications

Systems and processes for operating a virtual assistant to provide natural assistant interaction are provided. In accordance with one or more examples, a method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory: receiving a first audio stream including one or more utterances; determining whether the first audio stream includes a lexical trigger; generating one or more candidate text representations of the one or more utterances; determining whether at least one candidate text representation of the one or more candidate text representations is to be disregarded by the virtual assistant. If at least one candidate text representation is to be disregarded, one or more candidate intents are generated based on candidate text representations of the one or more candidate text representations other than the to be disregarded at least one candidate text representation.

Natural assistant interaction

This relates to systems and processes for using a virtual assistant to arbitrate among and/or control electronic devices. In one example process, a first electronic device samples an audio input using a microphone. The first electronic device broadcasts a first set of one or more values based on the sampled audio input. Furthermore, the first electronic device receives a second set of one or more values, which are based on the audio input, from a second electronic device. Based on the first set of one or more values and the second set of one or more values, the first electronic device determines whether to respond to the audio input or forego responding to the audio input.

Intelligent device arbitration and control

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 methods for selectively ignoring an occurrence of a wakeword within audio input data is provided herein. In some embodiments, a wakeword may be detected to have been uttered by an individual within a modified time window, which may account for hardware delays and echoing offsets. The detected wakeword that occurs during this modified time window may, in some embodiments, correspond to a word included within audio that is outputted by a voice activated electronic device. This may cause the voice activated electronic device to activate itself, stopping the audio from being outputted. By identifying when these occurrences of the wakeword within outputted audio are going to happen, the voice activated electronic device may selectively determine when to ignore the wakeword, and furthermore, when not to ignore the wakeword.

Methods and devices for selectively ignoring captured audio data

A system for capturing and processing portions of a spoken utterance command that may occur before a wakeword. The system buffers incoming audio and indicates locations in the audio where the utterance changes, for example when a long pause is detected. When the system detects a wakeword within a particular utterance, the system determines the most recent utterance change location prior to the wakeword and sends the audio from that location to the end of the command utterance to a server for further speech processing.

Pre-wakeword speech processing

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example process, an event associated with an audio input is detected with a first process. In accordance with a detection of the event, a delay value associated with an electronic device is determined. The delay value corresponds to a time required to determine, with a second process, whether the audio input includes a spoken trigger. In accordance with a determination that the delay value exceeds a threshold, the delay value is broadcast during a first advertising session, and determination is made, during a second advertising session, whether the electronic device is to respond to the audio input. In accordance with a determination that the threshold is not exceeded, a determination is made, during the first advertising session, whether the electronic device is to respond to the audio input or wait for the second advertising session.

Variable latency device coordination

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