Apple Inc.

Stephen H Shum

Benjamin S Phipps

Anumita Biswas

Sachin S Kajarekar

Jessica J Peck

Chaitanya Mannemala

Corey J Peterson

Erik Marchi

Harry Simmonds

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example method includes receiving, from one or more external electronic devices, a plurality of speaker profiles for a plurality of users; receiving a natural language speech input; determining, based on comparing the natural language speech input to the plurality of speaker profiles: a first likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a first user of the plurality of users; and a second likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a second user of the plurality of users; determining whether the first likelihood and the second likelihood are within a first threshold; and in accordance with determining that the first likelihood and the second likelihood are not within the first threshold: providing a response to the natural language speech input, the response being personalized for the first user.

Voice identification in digital assistant systems

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Walnut Creek, CA, United States of America

Stephen H Shum