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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2016
Applicant:

Yahoo!, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ankur Kumar Gupta, Cupertino, CA (US);

Chao Tan, Cupertino, CA (US);

Timothy Patrick Daly, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Oath Inc., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 13/033 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 13/033 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01); G10L 2015/228 (2013.01);
Abstract

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for dynamically selecting a personality for a digital assistant are provided. For example, audio associated with a conversation with a digital assistant may be received from a user. The audio may be converted into a request comprising text. A task may be determined based upon the request. One or more sentences associated with information associated with the task may be determined. A context of the conversation may be determined based upon the request and a user profile of the user. A first personality may be selected for the digital assistant from one or more personalities based upon the context of the conversation. The first personality may be used to generate audio of the one or more sentences. The audio of the one or more sentences may be presented as part of the conversation to the user.


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