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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2016
Applicant:
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;
Inventors:
James Anthony Hunt, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Russell Speight VanBlon, Raleigh, NC (US);
John Carl Mese, Cary, NC (US);
Nathan J. Peterson, Oxford, NC (US);
Assignee:
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01);
Abstract
A voice assistant of a device is activated not by a key word being spoken but by recognizing speech and determining whether context of the speech indicates that audible voice assistance is appropriate.