Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Maciej Grabon

Fabian Andreas Bumberger

Maciej Makowski

Bruno Dufour

Ashwin Venkatesh Raman

Michal Kowalczuk

Sasi Kiran Vepanjeri Lokanadha Reddy

Eli Joshua Fidler

Muhammad Zain Mustafa

Ieliena Cannata

Ashutosh Thakur

A speech processing system that enables voice-privacy mode operations for resource limited computing devices. A device that has limited speech processing capabilities/is otherwise resource limited, connects to a local host. The user may then enable a voice-privacy mode for the limited device. When the mode is active, if the limited device detects an utterance, it sends the audio data of the utterance to the local host, which performs limited speech processing and sends the resulting data back to the limited device, which then sends it to a more powerful device to complete the speech processing.

Privacy mode for multi-device processing

A speech interface device is configured to switch between languages, at the request of a user, in order to locally process utterances spoken in different languages, even in instances when a remote system is unavailable to, slower than, or otherwise less preferred than the speech interface device. For example, a user can request to set the language setting of the speech interface device to a second language, different from a first language to which the language setting of the device is currently set. Based on this user request, a local speech processing component of the device may load a language model(s) associated with the second language. The speech interface can also output voice prompts in the second language to manage the user's experience while a language update is in progress on the speech interface device.

Language switching on a speech interface device

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Gdansk, Poland

Maciej Grabon