Google Inc.

Saisuresh Krishnakumaran

Robert Stets

Valerie Nygaard

Bogdan Caprita

Jason Brant Douglas

Nikhil Rao

Barnaby John James

Bo Wang

Lei Zhong

Nikhil Chandru Rao

Systems and methods of determining phonetic relationships are provided. For instance data indicative of an input text phrase input by a user can be received. An audio output corresponding to a spoken rendering of the input text phrase can be determined. A text transcription of the audio output of the input text phrase can be determined. The text transcription can be a textual representation of the audio output. The text transcription can be compared against a plurality of test phrases to identify a match between the text transcription and at least one test phrase.

Determining phonetic relationships

An example method includes receiving, by a computational assistant executing at one or more processors, a representation of an utterance spoken at a computing device; identifying, based on the utterance, a task to be performed; determining a capability level of a first party (1P) agent to perform the task; determining capability levels of respective third party (3P) agents of a plurality of 3P agents to perform the task; responsive to determining that the capability level of the 1P agent does not satisfy a threshold capability level, that a capability level of a particular 3P agent of the plurality of 3P agents is a greatest of the determined capability levels, and that the capability level of the particular 3P agent satisfies the threshold capability level, selecting the particular 3P agent to perform the task; and performing one or more actions determined by the selected agent to perform the task.

Selection of computational agent for task performance

An example method includes receiving, by a computational assistant executing at one or more processors, a representation of an utterance spoken at a computing device; selecting, based on the utterance, an agent from a plurality of agents, wherein the plurality of agents includes one or more first party agents and a plurality of third-party agents; responsive to determining that the selected agent comprises a first party agent, selecting a reserved voice from a plurality of voices; and outputting synthesized audio data using the selected voice to satisfy the utterance.

Synthesized voice selection for computational agents

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Saisuresh Krishnakumaran