Google Inc.

Sourish Chaudhuri

Joseph Edward Roth

Sharadh Ramaswamy

Aren Jansen

Bryan Andrew Seybold

Elad Eban

Khiem Pham

Achal D Dave

Tuan Anh Nguyen

Kenneth Edward Mixter

Hideaki Matsui

Jaclyn Konzelmann

Caroline Rebecca Pantofaru

Vinay Bettadapura

Daniel Ellis

Nebojsa Ciric

Ondrej Klejch

Kenneth Hoover

Nebojsa Ćirić

Fangzhou Wang

Nathan Reale

Caroline Pantofaru

Hot-word free adaptation of one or more function(s) of an automated assistant. Sensor data, from one or more sensor components of an assistant device that provides an automated assistant interface (graphical and/or audible), is processed to determine occurrence and/or confidence metric(s) of various attributes of a user that is proximal to the assistant device. Whether to adapt each of one or more of the function(s) of the automated assistant is based on the occurrence and/or the confidence of one or more of the various attributes. For example, certain processing of at least some of the sensor data can be initiated, such as initiating previously dormant local processing of at least some of the sensor data and/or initiating transmission of at least some of the audio data to remote automated assistant component(s).

Hot-word free adaptation of automated assistant function(s)

Implementations described herein relate to methods, devices, and computer-readable media to perform gating for video analysis. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining a video comprising a plurality of frames and corresponding audio. The method further includes performing sampling to select a subset of the plurality of frames based on a target frame rate and extracting a respective audio spectrogram for each frame in the subset of the plurality of frames. The method further includes reducing resolution of the subset of the plurality of frames. The method further includes applying a machine-learning based gating model to the subset of the plurality of frames and corresponding audio spectrograms and obtaining, as output of the gating model, an indication of whether to analyze the video to add one or more video annotations.

Gating model for video analysis

The technology disclosed herein may determine timing windows for speech captions of an audio stream. In one example, the technology may involve accessing audio data comprising a plurality of segments; determining, by a processing device, that one or more of the plurality of segments comprise speech sounds; identifying a time duration for the speech sounds; and providing a user interface element corresponding to the time duration for the speech sounds, wherein the user interface element indicates an estimate of a beginning and ending of the speech sounds and is configured to receive caption text associated with the speech sounds of the audio data.

Automatic determination of timing windows for speech captions in an audio stream

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating predictions for whether a target person is speaking during a portion of a video. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining one or more images which each depict a mouth of a given person at a respective time point. The images are processed using an image embedding neural network to generate a latent representation of the images. Audio data corresponding to the images is processed using an audio embedding neural network to generate a latent representation of the audio data. The latent representation of the images and the latent representation of the audio data is processed using a recurrent neural network to generate a prediction for whether the given person is speaking.

Speaking classification using audio-visual data

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for audio classifiers. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a plurality of video frames from a plurality of videos, wherein each of the plurality of video frames is associated with one or more image labels of a plurality of image labels determined based on image recognition; obtaining a plurality of audio segments corresponding to the plurality of video frames, wherein each audio segment has a specified duration relative to the corresponding video frame; and generating an audio classifier trained using the plurality of audio segment and the associated image labels as input, wherein the audio classifier is trained such that the one or more groups of audio segments are determined to be associated with respective one or more audio labels.

Audio classifier

A computer-implemented method for speech diarization is described. The method comprises determining temporal positions of separate faces in a video using face detection and clustering. Voice features are detected in the speech sections of the video. The method further includes generating a correlation between the determined separate faces and separate voices based at least on the temporal positions of the separate faces and the separate voices in the video. This correlation is stored in a content store with the video.

Associating faces with voices for speaker diarization within videos

A content system accessing an audio stream. The content system inputs segments of the audio stream into a speech classifier for classification, the speech classifier generating, for the segments of the audio stream, raw scores representing likelihoods that the respective segment of the audio stream includes an occurrence of a speech sound. The content system generates binary scores for the audio stream based on the set of raw scores, each binary score generated based on an aggregation of raw scores from consecutive series of the segments of the audio stream. The content system generates one or more timing windows for the speech sounds in the audio stream based on the binary scores, each timing window indicating an estimate of a beginning and ending timestamps of one or more speech sounds in the audio stream.

Implementations disclose filtering wind noises in video content. A method includes receiving video content comprising an audio component and a video component, detecting, by a processing device, occurrence of a wind noise artifact in a segment of the audio component, identifying an intensity of the wind noise artifact, wherein the intensity is based on a signal-to-noise ratio of the wind noise artifact, selecting, by the processing device, a wind noise replacement operation based on the identified intensity of the wind noise artifact, and applying, by the processing device, the selected wind noise replacement operation to the segment of the audio component to remove the wind noise artifact from the segment.

Filtering wind noises in video content

A content server accessing an audio stream, and inputs portions of the audio stream into one or more non-speech classifiers for classification, the non-speech classifiers generating, for portions of the audio stream, a set of raw scores representing likelihoods that the respective portion of the audio stream includes an occurrence of a particular class of non-speech sounds associated with each of the non-speech classifiers. The content server generates binary scores for the sets of raw scores, the binary scores generated based on a smoothing of a respective set of raw scores. The content server applies a set of non-speech captions to portions of the audio stream in time, each of the sets of non-speech captions based on a different one of the set binary scores of the corresponding portion of the audio stream.

Automatic smoothed captioning of non-speech sounds from audio

Implementations disclose filtering wind noises in video content. A method includes receiving video content comprising an audio component and a video component, detecting, by a processing device, occurrence of a wind noise artifact in a segment of the audio component, identifying duration of the wind noise artifact and intensity of the wind noise artifact, selecting, by the processing device, a wind noise replacement operation based on the identified duration and intensity of the wind noise artifact, and applying, by the processing device, the selected wind noise replacement operation to the segment of the audio component to remove the wind noise artifact from the segment.

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