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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:
Aug. 27, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 16, 2017
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aimee Piercy, Mountain View, CA (US);

Cyrus Daniel Irani, Los Altos, CA (US);

Yoon Kim, Cupertino, CA (US);

David Chance Graham, Campbell, CA (US);

Patrick L. Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 17/22 (2013.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 13/033 (2013.01); G10L 21/00 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G10L 13/027 (2013.01); G10L 15/30 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 17/22 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G10L 13/033 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G10L 13/027 (2013.01); G10L 15/30 (2013.01); G10L 21/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory, receiving a natural-language speech input indicative of a request to the digital assistant; obtaining, by the digital assistant, context information; determining, by the digital assistant, a text-to-speech mode from a plurality of text-to-speech modes based on the obtained context information; and providing, by the digital assistant, an audio output with the determined text-to-speech mode, where the audio output is indicative of a speech response to the user request.


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