Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Stephanos Tryphonas

Larry Paul Heck

Lisa Joy Stifelman

Kamran Rajabi Zargahi

Anne K Sullivan

Adam Elman

Ken H Thai

Techniques are described herein that are capable of satisfying specified intent(s) based on multimodal request(s). A multimodal request is a request that includes at least one request of a first type and at least one request of a second type that is different from the first type. Example types of request include but are not limited to a speech request, a text command, a tactile command, and a visual command. A determination is made that one or more entities in visual content are selected in accordance with an explicit scoping command from a user. In response, speech understanding functionality is automatically activated, and audio signals are automatically monitored for speech requests from the user to be processed using the speech understanding functionality.

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